The Comrade to cut funding to health and education

They are cutting funding which would have assisted schools and health. Simto you can read it however you like, it doesn’t bother me.

Why don’t they cut something else?

Because education and health are easy targets.

I gotta say, nyss, you’re not doing educational standards any favour if you can’t distinguish between a cut and a “lack of sufficient increase in funds”. They’re two different things, and confusing the two only promotes stupidity.

I know you may not have meant this, but overegging your pudding only makes it easier to discredit you. Saying “they’ve taken funds they promised to us and put them somwhere less worthy” is a much better arguement than saying “they’ve cut our funding” when they haven’t actually cut your funding.

See, everyone can learn lessons!

Thumper, I honestly felt the same way last year, but it had nothing to do with the students.

I know that there are kids who at age 15 can’t read the word “infancy” or spell it. They can’t multiply fractions because they don’t know their times tables.

I’m 29 and I am amazed at how bad the system is becoming. I am also amazed at how much PC BS is now “included” in the curriculum.

Plus, and I am not one to bag out colleagues, but some should not be in the classroom. They think of school (mostly secondary) as a “reliving” of their own high school years and are more “friends” with the students than their teachers.

Oh the stories……but that’s another day.

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areaman, I’ve seen school resources first hand…have you?

He’s cutting money that would have gone to health and education. It’s not like we don’t need.

the article that is linked actually has the comrade saying there will be an increase in expenditure.

if you plan to overegg your argument, at least do it in the body of your argument and not the entirely misleading headline.

and if you want little John or Sally to actually have the resources they need to learn.

except that according to the productivity comission ACT public schools are some of the best in the country.

But yeah it’s not a cut, so your whole story is bullshit.

Yes, and it’s nonsense when lefties say it too. That kinda “they started it” debating tactic doesn’t really work for anybody above adult age.

Is funding for health and education too low? Yes. Is reducing an already promised increase a bastardly thing to do and a demonstration of somewhat questionable priorities? Yes.

But calling it a cut just makes you look like a moron.

Ahem, when tories reduce the planned funding increase it’s called a “cut”.

Thanks DT, I was just about to say that myself.

Of course, when someone headlines by calling the CM Comrade, you have a fair idea this is going to be an attack on party lines.