I think the time to stand up for our children's education is NOW

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I find it unbelievable that whenever the states have their budgets cut, for whatever reason, and they find their budget unbalancable, that the politicians are allowed to decide that the first place to make budget cuts is public education. Are you aware that they are laying off 300-500 thousand educators and administrators for the public education system? What gives our legislators, people who suck $172 thousand dollar per year sallaries from the publicv tit, the right to undermine our childrens education in order to keep pulling in those huge salaries that they keep voting to raise? They don't have children in public schools. To me that makes giving them the right to cut the budget anywhere they want to without ever once looking at their salaries or the salaries of their enormous staffs and saying, "Some cuts could come from here." Just 10% of what politicians spend to get elected could make up the budgetary shortfall. Regardless of what underhanded double dealing and pocket lining has undercut the budgets the money should never be cut first from the funds eamarked for education of our children.