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Our $16 Trillion Education System

• Cost of US education as a percent of GDP increased 2.9% in 4 decades.
• This cost an EXTRA 86% of GDP, or $7.3 trillion in today's dollars.
• Total US expenditures for education over 4 decades was 196% of GDP, or $16.6 trillion in today's dollars.
• In 12 different subjects, no country scored lower than American 12th Grade Girls.

To "narrow the gender gap", the US spent an EXTRA $7.3 trillion for education, only to watch SAT scores drop 98 points while the "gender gap" remained fixed.

 If we stay on the current course, we will have spent an EXTRA $16.8 trillion for education and achieved nothing except reduced education quality FOR ALL.

After spending an EXTRA $7.3 trillion to educate women, we have produced women who feel "I am good at math", but whose intellectual skills are even lower on the human evolutionary scale than they were before:

Table 31.--Total expenditures of educational institutions related to the gross
           domestic product, by level of institution:  1959-60 to 1993-94

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
            |             |           |     Total expenditures for education (amounts in millions)
            |             |           |_____________________________________________________________________
            |             |           |    All educational   | All elementary and  |     All colleges and
            |    Gross    |           |     institutions     | secondary schools   |      universities
    Year    |  domestic   |  School   |______________________|_____________________|________________________
            |   product   |   year    |          |   As a    |          |   As a   |             |   As a
            |(in billions)|           |          |  percent  |          | percent  |             | percent
            |             |           |  Amount  | of gross  |  Amount  | of gross |     Amount  | of gross
            |             |           |          | domestic  |          | domestic |             | domestic
            |             |           |          |  product  |          | product  |             | product
____________|_____________|___________|__________|___________|__________|__________|_____________|__________
     1      |      2      |     3     |     4    |     5     |     6    |     7    |       8     |    9
____________|_____________|___________|__________|___________|__________|__________|_____________|__________
1959 .......|      $494.2 | 1959-60   |  $23,860 |       4.8 |  $16,713 |      3.4 |      $7,147 |      1.4
1961 .......|       531.8 | 1961-62   |   28,503 |       5.4 |   19,673 |      3.7 |       8,830 |      1.7
1963 .......|       603.1 | 1963-64   |   34,440 |       5.7 |   22,825 |      3.8 |      11,615 |      1.9
1965 .......|       702.7 | 1965-66   |   43,682 |       6.2 |   28,048 |      4.0 |      15,634 |      2.2
1967 .......|       814.3 | 1967-68   |   55,652 |       6.8 |   35,077 |      4.3 |      20,575 |      2.5
            |             |           |          |           |          |          |             |
1969 .......|       959.5 | 1969-70   |   68,459 |       7.1 |   43,183 |      4.5 |      25,276 |      2.6
1970 .......|     1,010.7 | 1970-71   |   75,741 |       7.5 |   48,200 |      4.8 |      27,541 |      2.7
1971 .......|     1,097.2 | 1971-72   |   80,672 |       7.4 |   50,950 |      4.6 |      29,722 |      2.7
1972 .......|     1,207.0 | 1972-73   |   86,875 |       7.2 |   54,952 |      4.6 |      31,923 |      2.6
1973 .......|     1,349.6 | 1973-74   |   95,396 |       7.1 |   60,370 |      4.5 |      35,026 |      2.6
            |             |           |          |           |          |          |             |
1974 .......|     1,458.6 | 1974-75   |  108,664 |       7.4 |   68,846 |      4.7 |      39,818 |      2.7
1975 .......|     1,585.9 | 1975-76   |  118,706 |       7.5 |   75,101 |      4.7 |      43,605 |      2.7
1976 .......|     1,768.4 | 1976-77   |  126,417 |       7.1 |   79,194 |      4.5 |      47,223 |      2.7
1977 .......|     1,974.1 | 1977-78   |  137,042 |       6.9 |   86,544 |      4.4 |      50,498 |      2.6
1978 .......|     2,232.7 | 1978-79   |  148,308 |       6.6 |   93,012 |      4.2 |      55,296 |      2.5
            |             |           |          |           |          |          |             |
1979 .......|     2,488.6 | 1979-80   |  165,627 |       6.7 |  103,162 |      4.1 |      62,465 |      2.5
1980 .......|     2,708.0 | 1980-81   |  182,849 |       6.8 |  112,325 |      4.1 |      70,524 |      2.6
1981 .......|     3,030.6 | 1981-82   |  197,801 |       6.5 |  120,486 |      4.0 |      77,315 |      2.6
1982 .......|     3,149.6 | 1982-83   |  212,081 |       6.7 |  128,725 |      4.1 |      83,356 |      2.6
1983 .......|     3,405.0 | 1983-84   |  228,597 |       6.7 |  139,000 |      4.1 |      89,597 |      2.6
            |             |           |          |           |          |          |             |
1984 .......|     3,777.2 | 1984-85   |  247,657 |       6.6 |  149,400 |      4.0 |      98,257 |      2.6
1985 .......|     4,038.7 | 1985-86   |  269,485 |       6.7 |  161,800 |      4.0 |     107,685 |      2.7
1986 .......|     4,268.6 | 1986-87   |  291,974 |       6.8 |  175,200 |      4.1 |     116,774 |      2.7
1987 .......|     4,539.9 | 1987-88   |  313,375 |       6.9 |  187,999 |      4.1 |     125,376 |      2.8
1988 .......|     4,900.4 | 1988-89   |  346,883 |       7.1 |  209,377 |      4.3 |     137,506 |      2.8
            |             |           |          |           |          |          |             |
1989 .......|     5,250.8 | 1989-90   |  382,062 |       7.3 |  230,300 |      4.4 |     151,762 |      2.9
1990 .......|     5,546.1 | 1990-91 /1|  414,690 |       7.5 |  248,930 |      4.5 |     165,760 |      3.0
1991 .......|     5,722.9 | 1991-92 /2|  438,971 |       7.7 |  261,767 |      4.6 |     177,204 |      3.1
1992 .......|     6,038.5 | 1992-93 /3|  462,700 |       7.7 |  275,300 |      4.6 |     187,400 |      3.1
1993 .......|     6,377.9 | 1993-94 /3|  484,000 |       7.6 |  285,400 |      4.5 |     198,600 |      3.1
____________|_____________|___________|__________|___________|__________|__________|_____________|__________
1/ Revised from previously published data.
2/ Preliminary.
3/ Estimated.

NOTE.--Total expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools include current expenditures,
interest on school debt, and capital outlay.  Data for private elementary and secondary schools are
estimated.  Total expenditures for colleges and universities include current-fund expenditures and
additions to plant value.  Excludes expenditures of noncollegiate postsecondary institutions.  Because of
rounding, details may not add to totals.

SOURCE:  U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Statistics of State
School Systems; Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education;
Financial Statistics of Institutions of Higher Education; Common Core of Data survey; "Financial
Statistics of Institutions of Higher Education" survey, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
(IPEDS) "Finance" survey, and unpublished data; Council of Economic Advisers, Economic Indicators; and
National Education Association, Estimates of School Statistics, various years.  (This table was prepared
June 1994.)