G.W. Bush Budget Opinion Piece

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PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH’S FY 2006 BUDGET PROPOSAL
As one who is deeply interested in politics and its study, and who is engaged to a degree in its happenings, several observations have been noted by my person. It began with smaller details juxtaposed with overall outlooks. I began to notice, the more I attended my public high school, that it needed significant improvement in terms of its programs and methods of teaching and examination. After a semester in England, I compared it to my experience at my university back home, and so great discrepancies in quality of education and in terms of political activism. My home campus is a politically dead one, with students worried about a job market as opposed to world affairs. I began to notice that this was true in many other universities, as explained to me by my friends. My list of observations could go on, including but not limited to the poor quality of presidents relative to foreign prime ministers and former presidents, the lagging of American innovation behind that of the European Union, and a growing bureaucracy that makes the government America’s biggest employer.
Which segues perfectly into President Bush’s budget: it presented a bigger government under a supposed “fiscal conservative.” The government has grown under this president, and he doesn’t deny that the government is in the business of being “compassionate.” But once again, education is under-funded. And this of course doesn’t make the administration that different than others. On numerous occasions, both parties have failed to address the serious problems in our education systems and opportunities they offer in a competitive global market. Perhaps the only positive thing that has occurred is the No Child Left Behind Act which was a Clinton brain-child. It passed under Bush, and isn’t positive to me in that it’s a great program, only that it’s an experiment with an ailing educational s...