"So what you are really saying is that states can't spent money on social programs like education because they are already spending money on social programs. Have it got it right this time?"
States are not like the federal government. They cannot create money out of the air. They actually have to live by a budget. If social programs are continually being added or expanded, the budget has to be adjusted. At some point, a decision has to be made: will the public universities get the same percentage of the budget as last year or will it be decreased in order to fund more head start programs, pay for the education of illegal immigrants, increase the size of prisons, increase welfare, and so on. And to be fair, the states could actually move money to infrastructure projects, but that doesn't seem to be happening. It seems to be all on the humans service side. I don't think it's that hard to understand: States cannot spend limitlessly; they have to choose what they want to spend on and it seems that public universities do not get the same percentage as they use to. Of course, without looking at actual numbers, we can't tell what the true effect is. For example, the actual amount of money a university receives from a state may have actually increased while the percentage of the state budget dedicated to universities went down. This could happen in those cycles when state's are flush with revenue. Similarly, the budget could increase while the amount went down due a bad revenue cycle. I still think that the bottom line is that public universities have suffered super inflation due to being built on a terrible business model, not a dramatic reduction in funding from the states. I think the students are paying the price for this (no pun intended) by getting buried by debt which will cause them to become a new form of indentured servants. J - We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. And an enormous debt to boot! - Henry Morgenthau ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:352208 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
