Dire times call for dire measures. We're going to cut in-service days. We're not spending more on teacher housing.

We're a long way from what anybody would call dire straits,

Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures

Obviously, consumers just ignored all the dire warnings and kept on spending.

The DVDs are not cut to be stimulating visually. They're cut actually more to be soporific, in a sense. If you go on a hike and you get to a great view, you sit down and look at the view. There's nobody editing it.

It's not that we're opposed to other education-related spending, but this is a misuse of what Georgians originally voted for [when HOPE was created].