SAY IT AIN'T SO, B.O.; SAY IT AIN'T SO.

I paraphrase the legedary line uttered to him by a kid after reading of Joe Jackson's helping to throw the 1919 World Series.

In my case, though, it's not incredulity at what a revered idol had done but, rather, incredulity at what the putz in the White House said.

B.O., the Neighborhood Organizer, "present" voter - except for baby murder, stranger to his U.S. senate seat, and probable foreign national, has just pled for more than a 20% increase in the "education" budget!!!!!!

Tell him it ain't so, Congress; tell him it ain't so. (Written to conform to contemporary eduucation standards in the U.S.)

If anything we should DECREASE the education budget if not annihilate the laughable, prodigal, mess of a department altogether and reduce the throw-aways on unaccountable, pixilated tangents to education.

I know one urban study that showed the ranking on achievement tests in parts of the city to be exactly the inverse of the amount of $ wasted in them; that is, the greatest expenditure was in the lowest-ranked district, and the least $ corresponded to the best performance.

Don't be hoodwinked by B.O.'s blather. We've had DECADES to disprove that higher spending increases performance. Look at out lamentable ranking compared to other countries in various subjects. STOP WASTING MY INCOME, already decreased by BADministration policies.

We need FEWER college students, too. Raise the standards to where they once were and stop subsidizing incompetents to get degrees in Sociology, Black Studies, Women's Studies, and comparable boondoggles.