“It is time to do something to save our public schools. It’s time for leadership to make Utah’s public education system great again,” he said Monday. “Our governor and state Legislature appear to not care enough about the future of public education to devote more of the state’s current resources to fund it, or to find additional funds.”

Where do people get this stuff? If there’s anything the legislature demonstrably does care about, it’s education. While every General Fund category has been virtually flat (or with minimal growth) for a decade, public education has climbed around 60 percent. And that’s even in the face of recession.

So, Mr. General, sir: Where do you propose to get more money before we’re all dead? I’ll suggest one place. Identify the immense waste in the existing administration of the public schools, and then use the windfall to hire more teachers.

You might also tell Utahns to stop replenishing the earth at such a fantastic rate. If Utah’s average household size were the national average instead of 50 percent greater, there would be a lot more money to go around without raising anybody’s taxes. (Warning: This wouldn’t make a very good campaign speech around here.)