False Assumptions in Education

I feel as though the nation is tackling the problem of budget cuts, specifically budget cuts in the area of education, through false assumptions.  The false assumption is that to gain more money, areas such as education should be the first departments served budget cuts.  However, legislators have failed to consider the long term consequences of such cuts.  The nation as a whole is concerned with the issues of unemployment, and securing jobs.  Does cutting spending in education really serve to give our youth the best chance of acquiring high paying jobs? How can we expect them to gain these jobs, and be most competitive for these jobs, perhaps against foreign applicants,  if their education will has been downgraded?  Education cuts will lead to lesser educational opportunities for the youth of the nation, and will have long lasting impacts as they continue into their adult lives.  The long term solution is not to cut education, but find other areas that are overspending, and cut from those areas.  Education, as such a vital foundation of our working class society, should not be cut.  Cuts in education will lead to continued unemployment, and be detrimental to the future of America's economy.