Kids Aren’t Benefiting From Defense’s Sacrifice
Columnist James Flanigan’s “Northrop Deal Reflects a Becalmed Defense Field” (July 6) followed by “Lockheed Martin May See Layoffs, Closures” (July 7) has me wondering where the 3% of the national budget taken away from defense spending is going.
As the wife of an aerospace engineer with three children, if our income from working for the defense industry has to be sacrificed, can we at least have the reassurance of knowing that our children will benefit?
Have any of the former defense funds been specifically earmarked for education? Has a good public education from preschool through grad school been made more accessible?
The reports on public schools show we are still lagging behind other countries in many areas, and public institutions of higher learning in this state have recently increased their tuition, making it even less accessible to many. Graduate school is virtually impossible for most students without incurring literally tens of thousands of dollars in debts.
Why do I get the feeling that the lot of the children (didn’t some president recently refer to them as “our future”?) has not been improved by the shifting around of funds?
ANNE S. MEGOWAN
Los Angeles
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