Fiscal Stupidity, Indiana Edition

6:34 pm EST December 16th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 8 Comments

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is cutting K-12 education spending rather than use a $2 billion rainy day fund. Seems to me education is the first thing you would use a rainy day fund for…

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8 Responses to “Fiscal Stupidity, Indiana Edition”

  1. alboy2 says:
    December 16, 2009 at 7:21 pm

    We don’t need no education
    We don’t need no thought control…apparently the NEW GOP strategy is to stop educating children. This will ensure a healthy supply of future Republican voters. Brilliant!

  2. SaveFarris says:
    December 16, 2009 at 7:24 pm

    No silly: THIS is what you save a “rainy day” fund for: not reoccuring budget expenses.

  3. Wilbur says:
    December 16, 2009 at 10:48 pm

    apparently the NEW GOP strategy is to stop educating children

    Nothing new about it.

  4. Mike says:
    December 16, 2009 at 11:13 pm

    Given that Indiana doesn’t have a history of supporting its public schools, this isn’t surprising. Oddly, they do support their public universities.

  5. jr says:
    December 17, 2009 at 12:04 am

    Cons think the rapture is just around the corner, there’s no time for education. Google “end time”

  6. White Whale says:
    December 17, 2009 at 8:19 am

    How hard can that teaching stuff be, right? I get Farris’s point but this “reoccuring budget expense” (somehow you made education seem like paying the cable bill or something else mundane) also is key to long term financial prosperity. These cuts amount to furlough days and less time kids get to spend in the classroom. Congrats smart guys.

  7. Miss T says:
    December 17, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    What is it about Repugnicans that makes them hate
    a healthy, educated public?
    Oh, wait! I think I know. They might get well
    enough to think for themselves!

  8. luvmiberrii says:
    December 19, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    Every May 100K folks come to Indiana when 30+ other folks (nowhere else to go?) drive around an oval @ 200mph. Spectators wait for the crash and the corpse and call it a sport. Stupidity is a cash crop in the Who?Sure! state.