When Is Less More And When Is More Less?

Didja ever notice how different things somehow seem tied together? For instance, this Super Committee formed of six Republicans and six Democrats are supposed to figure out how to save $1.5 trillion? By the way, those folks are already beginning to get besieged by influence peddlers. Oops, I mean lobbyists. Anyway, if they don't come to an agreement or if congress doesn't pass their recommendations, there will be $1.2 trillion automatically cut from defense and entitlements. Now here's how things relate. Take food stamps as an example. If you cut food stamp in half, let's say by $250 per month, that would be $3000 per year less those folks would have to live on. Now tell me how that would be different from a $3000 tax increase for someone else? Or cutting additional funds from schools to lower a deficit or pay down debt. How does that help our children's futures if they are less well educated because of a lack of funding. Oh I know all about the idea that throwing money at education won't necessarily improve education. But taking money away from education certainly won't improve it either. Some places they've cut back on the hours or days of school. But statistics prove that more hours and or days of teaching improve student scores and even more important than scores, they will improve students chances for a better life. Ya know what I think? I think some folks don't give a tinkers damn about our children's future. They only care about not paying a few cents more in taxes or even more important to them is paying a few cents less in taxes. But they know that saying they want to help the children sounds good.