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Propeller
Even as student enrollment declined by 18%, Vermont's education revenues jumped from $850M in 1999 to $1.5B in 2011 - propelled by a convoluted funding mechanism that has fueled increasing staff levels. While enrollment has been falling, the report found that, from 1999-00 to 2009-10, teaching positions increased by 3.1%, and administrative staffing levels increased by 22% from 2000-01 and 2009-10. (VTGOP.com, 1/9/2012)


Anytime that you hear Liberals talk about how the country needs to "invest more in....(fill in the blank)" you can almost certainly bet that they are paying off their donors. You can also bet that the money will be wasted. And so RedStateVT calls for government to invest LESS in education, green jobs and infrastructure!


Depth Charge
Mr. Gingrich is correct that food stamp program participation is at record levels but he ignores the depth of the recession inherited by Mr. Obama when he took office. (NYT, 1/17/2012)


So Gingrich was right after all! (Except it is all Bush's fault).


Laughing Boy
The notion that Obama wants to turn the United States into a “European-style entitlement society” is laughable. It’s not even a fair description of Europe, which boasts of some highly productive and innovative capitalist economies. (E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, 1/15/2012)


From Great Britain to Greece, their citizens take to the streets to protest (and commit violence) whenever their governments threaten to cut - however slightly - their government goodies. The highly productive and innovative capitalist economies that Dionne is referring to (but does not name) include Germany which has reduced its entitlement obligations.