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1	funds, and there is the notion that to single out one
2	aspect of the State's administration of the State, namely,
3	education, as important as everyone agrees that educcition
4	is, first opens the door to the same claim on the part of
5	other very sincere and significant segments of the popu-
6	lation affected by other State services for the same
7	consideration, and restricts the governor from being able
8	to give full voice to the policies on which he might
9	have been elected.
10	I think that is a powerful argument, without
11	suggesting it is one that I, for what ray opinion is worth,
12	would buy wholesale. The charge has been made, of course,
13	that education, that the gist of your remarks and others
14	similar to them, has been to make education, either some
15	people say a sacred cow; others suggest it is an attempt
16	to make education a fourth branch of government. The only
17	other budgets that are accorded the seme favorable con-
18	sideration are that of the Legislative and Judicial Depart-
19	ments, so I think there is a legitimate question as to
20	what justification is there, as the Board and everyone
21	agrees education is, what justification is there for tying