Budget Cuts

It seems every major public institution these days is having to face the problem of budget cuts, especially in the realm of education. At my school there have recently been a number of staff and faculty members laid off, as well as classes cut. I never thought that school budget cuts would effect me first hand, but I've recently discovered otherwise. I cannot get into quite a lot of the classes I would like to because the classes are too large. For me, this is hard to understand considering the ludicrous amount of money I am spending on tuition. One would hope that all classes would be available, but this is simply not the case, nor is there anything I can do about it. And I go to a small, but public university where class sizes are already smaller than they were in my high school, and I lived in a fairly affluent area. I wonder how big the classes are getting there, and how big they are in urban schools around the nation.

So, where are our tax dollars going anyway? It's clearly not education, in fact, only about 2% of your taxes go to education, whereas 21% go to National Security.
Now, I don't know about you, but personally I don't support the devastation of countries halfway across the globe, and I certainly don't want to pay for it. Know where your money is going, and if you don't like it, write your Governor, Senator, even the President. If that doesn't work...RIOT!!!

Attached is a link to a New York Times website that gives a pie chart (one of my favorite things in the world) that shows precisely where your hard earned money is going. Please, check it out.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/where-do-your-tax-dollars-go/