Hey! Democracy! Choices!

What, we wonder, can we do about it?

What is there to do about a lack of funding for our public schools and education in general? Just looking at the federal level, despite an economy that is doing very well at the moment, Trump’s proposed 2019 education budget chops it from $68 billion in 2016 to $63 billion in 2019, cheating children while at the same time spending more and more on war profiteers like Lockheed and Boeing.

Indeed, the daily contracts for the war department are staggering. Just today, 10 September 2018, Boeing is awarded $2.85 billion, $51 million to Lockheed, $19 million to Northrup Grumman, an additional contract of $14 million more to Boeing, and $12 million to BAE Technology Solutions.

Those are just the Air Force contracts for one random day. The Navy’s, Army’s, and Defense Logistics Agency list other contracts for the day, each one in the $millions, even more than $200 million for L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace.

But, I hear you snort, that’s how Trump is creating jobs!

Nope. That’s how he’s losing them, once the new budgets kick in.

To create more jobs, to create more educational opportunities for our young people, vote for candidates who will cut military spending and increase education.