Priorities... Teacher safe gaurd our future...most are required or get their m,asters but make less than almost every other profession... they work each day with 20 plus children and rarely have breaks.. they take on the discipline that parents used to do with less than half of the authority and tools.. it is the most underpaid profession. Waisteful government programs would be CEO pay [[how is that a government program, u may ask...TAX LOOPHOLES and Free corporate taxes... incentives to build factories then shipping jobs over seas.. that is what is wrong we dont put priorities in our children...just unless they happen to play psorts.not math nor science..but thats ok... in afew years china will have the competitive edge and will we be begging them for engineers and scientists... how many teachers is our foriegn policy not funding ...do the math... why ...it will surprise you how many teachers 3 billion buys.