<p>This is a huge problem and I understand the frustration and the sentiment. However, starving the beast brings the entire society down except for those milking the beast from the top (it is an odd shaped beast). I read an interesting book recently called, “The Price of Civilization” that addresses how to salvage government with a third party that is not bought by big oil (republicans) or Wall Street (democrats) that will actually do what the majority of people really want - reduce expenses and raise revenue by increasing the tax burden on the extremely wealthy and on economic transactions, among other things, to get the deficit under control.</p>
<p>Starving the beast will harm education, leave infrastructure crumbling, and lead to further deterioration of what we actually need the government to do. No question it is not doing what it needs to, and Obama did not bring “change.” Education is one thing that the government needs to do for the benefit of society as a whole.</p>
<p>Different debate about what sort of education and education reform generally.</p>