...what with history being over, he needed something else to do.

A big government program without Pork? Good luck with that...

"Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_unto_Caesar... I would argue the concept of separation of church and state *began* with Christianity. This explains it's viral nature and why it has been able to survive and even flourish under governments who are quite hostile to it. The fact it got coopted by the state says more about politicians than it does about religion.

...Obama wants it ready for when he declares martial law! I kid, I kid (at least I think I'm kidding...)

Think it's a typo - '2-to-1' should be '27-to1'.

Note: I assume the '2-to-1' is a typo and the author actually meant '27-to-1'

"What happened, for instance, to swell the bureaucracy at the UC over the past two decades? There now are nearly as many senior managers (8,144) as tenured and tenure-track faculty (8,521). As recently as 1993, the ratio between these groups was much different - 2,429 to 6,846.

Put another way, 18 years ago the student-to-upper management ratio was 62-to-1. Now it's all the way down to 2-to-1. The ratio of students to regular faculty, meanwhile, has risen from 22-to-1 in 1993 to 26-to-1."

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/585302/201109191844/By-The-Way-We-Teach-A-Little-Too.htm

It's simply the way school systems operate - make any cut the most visible/painful while ignoring the bloat within administration. Here in Albuquerque, if they're short on funds they always talk about class sizes or firing teachers, while ignoring the fact that less than half of the district employees are teachers (including substitutes they barely break 50%). Let me say that again: *Less than half* of the district employees are full-time teachers.

http://www.aps.edu/about-us/district-information

"At 20, you have the face you were born with. At 40, you have the face you deserve."

Get with the times - everything these days is the fault of the Koch brothers. The KOOooOOooOOCH Brothers!