OK - so we have all these politicians ranting about less spending - saving money, etc. Note where they hit first: school enrichment programs, loans for higher education, family planning,collective bargaining for public employees (wow - that really will make a dent in our spending!) and more - get the picture?
Funny - I don't hear anyone suggesting we get out of Afghanistan where most of our money goes - poured into a sack of holes.
It's the ideology game - politicians get bigger headlines for "moral" crusades and more money from organizations worried about prayer in schools and what people do in the privacy of their bedrooms than what's really good for society.
What is there about a society that can't see/understand the connection between overpopulation (read: unwanted children) and inadequate education. Although schools can use more funding, the real problem lies with parent(s) who didn't want these kids in the first place, and obviously don't get involved in their kids' education. Cut music/art, gifted child programs? And then we wonder why we're lagging in creative breakthroughs compared to the rest of the world. Teaching today centers on test taking instead of developing the powers of THINKING and HOW TO LEARN!(and if you live in my state, Texas, you have to suffer the indignity of politicians rewriting history in the textbooks!)
Too many complacent people, unhappy with this country's shift to politics as spewed by a network that presents fictional news, do nothing except complain; they don't write letters or contact their pols.
There's no better place than the USA - but that doesn't mean it can't stand a bit of tweaking!
