"There has been no rapid rise in funding for domestic discretionary programs in recent years; "
No shit. We've been in a recession in "recent" years. What about the 25-30 years before the recession? Then the budgets don't even count the little tricks like deferred spending and moving money from account to another to make up for shortcomings or taking money from the general fund (two frequent events here in NC). In the end, any difference of money given to public universities is due to money be given to something else. Chances are that the something else is medicaid (states, on average, spend 16.8% of state general funds on the program. If the federal match expenditure is also counted, the program, on average, takes up 22% of each state's budget ) or corrections (In the past 20 years, total state spending on higher education has increased 21% (from $60.3 billion to $72.9 billion, in 2007 dollars), while corrections spending has more than doubled, increasing 127%) or social services. Group them all under Human Services if you don't want to count prison as a social service. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:352226 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
