[L.N. Smithee]

"For what we have paid for the war in Iraq, we could have paid for 17,066,831 children to attend Head Start; provided health insurance for 51,741,858 children; hired 2,299,310 additional teachers; paid for 3,061,859 four-year scholarships to a public university," [Weaver] said.

Out of those four speculative totals, I think it's that third figure that really matters to him.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Well all are important to them - union members needed to fill any new "education" slot, "grow" big government and our dependence on it, "grow" the size of union membership and finance schools of education and the LIBERAL thinking union members they churn out. And the bonus is, they have a captive audience of millions of minds - year after year after year.