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To: Road Walker who wrote (172246)	7/21/2003 10:25:11 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1577591

am I supposed to write down every possible way that somebody could possibly misinterpret some data? No, but the way the data was presented specifically lent itself to that interpretation. If it had been a Democratic senator making the statement I would have figured that education was specifically selected for comparison because many voters would misinterpret it that way and because education can be a hot button political issue. The statement would probably be followed by a "Mr. President, can't we do for the children of America at least as much as we are doing for Iraq. I call on you to support my plan to extend federal spending on schools..." Because it was you not some politician I have no reason to think the comment was in any way intended to confuse or deceive, I was just point out for the benefit of any readers that most education money is state and local spending, and the total is a lot more then what's spent in Iraq. "Misleading" might be a little strong, I'm fairly certain at least that there was no intent to mislead but exceeding federal education spending is not a big deal since it is such a small part of the education budget. Tim