I see the guilt trip constantly. I think it was great that one of the school levys did not pass and they cut sports because that was a prime example of guilting people into more money and the people did not fall for it.
On this note of cutting costs, if foreign people want to be a part of our country they can fucking pay for school themselves. I wish I could go to another country that I don't belong to and have my school paid for by people there. Let's get our own people through then after that consider getting other people through. Why have we not started cutting useless government funded organizations either? If all these organizations have so many people following them, why don't they fund themselves? They are literally just a bunch of little clubs like the SCCA etc... that the government wants to see continue, if there isn't enough interest let it fail, if the automakers can't move cars, let them fail. We need to accept failures, we are a great country, but that does not mean everything goes well ALL OF THE TIME.