Bush is getting $87 billion for Iraq for one year.

U.S. Department of Education Budget Office reports that $63 billion are being spent by the Federal Government for all American children in all the schools in all the school districts in America.

There are 53 million students, 15,000 school districts, 92,000 public schools in the U.S.

Bush is sending an amount that could provide every single student in the US with $1641.50 in additional educational funding. That buys a lot of books, a lot of instruction. It reduces class sizes dramatically, ensures social support services and nutritional supplement in poor districts, repairs a lot of failing infrastructure, upgrades transportation, pays for curriculum development and counseling, restores music, art and sports in extracurricular programs.

My son went to a local elementary school with 850 kids in it. The amount sent to Iraq would provide about $1,400,000 to that school and every other school of its size in America.

92,000 public schools.

53 million students.

One president, one Halliburton, one debacle.