[mseebach]

When you get a chance, go find a copy of your national budget and find out how much of it goes towards education, health and infrastructure. Then stop using that argument.

[rguillebert]

http://voila-le-travail.data-projet.com/budget2012 in proportion, I think the budget is fine, more than 1/4th goes to education (if you include universities)

[mseebach]

Wow, that's a great visualisation!

Total: 676,625 millions (hover on the top bar, I can tell what the 366 bln in the headline refers to?).

Schools: 62,330 mln = 9.21%

Higher ed+research: 25,439 mln = 3.76%

Transport: 4,307 mln = 0.64%

Health: 1,379 mln = 0.2%

For a grand total of 13.81%. I'm not sure how you get to 1/4 going to education?

[rguillebert]

There's an error with the 676,625 millions I think, the correct total is 366,000 millions

If you look at this one from 2011 : http://www.performance-publique.budget.gouv.fr/fileadmin/med...

you can see that 23.6% went to education in 2011

[mseebach]

OK. Not being fluent in French, and not knowing the vocabulary used in France, I can't evaluate these and find other sources. But, for one thing, however, the pie chart doesn't seem to include debt payments. Also, a proper comparison would include the regions.

[rguillebert]

The 12.7% is debt payment, regions are in charge of secondary education and transportation mainly