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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls
This is exactly the thinking that is fucking over America.
Snake admits the school system is failing so his solution is to throw more money at it. Money fixes everything right? Why is it that Bush spent many more times Clinton did on education and it is still failing?
How about we stop funding failing schools and make it so they are REWARDED when they do well? Or allow vouchers so schools compete for parents and students? I bet you see a turn around in education system within two years with a lot LESS money needed to fund them.  |
Agreed. If you hired a guy to run your company and he was bankrupting it you wouldn't then go buy him a private jet so he could bankrupt it in first class.
Education is the key to the success of any country. Our system is in a downward spiral and throwing money at it won't solve the problem. They need to take a long hard look at it and determine the best ways to spend money.
I think some of it is that government employees get a sense of entitlement to their budgets. I know a bunch of people that work for various city and country government agencies and at the end of each fiscal year if they have money left over they are scrambling to find ways to spend it. When I ask them why the do that they say, "If I don't spend it, they will give me less next year." When asked if they can get the job done on less, why not take less and help the overall budget by letting a department that needs more money have your excess they look at me like I'm growing an arm out the middle of of my chest. It seems like once they get that money and have spent it they don't ever consider spending it differently. If you want them to spend money differently they want more money so they don't have to shift spending from one thing to another.
Also since it is government money they seem to act like it is not really money. I have seen guys pick up a catalog and order something that cost $200 and when they are told that they could go buy that same thing from a store for about $90 they say, "yeah, but these guys will ship it to me, I don't want to have to go to the store." I can't count how many times I have heard government employees say, "It's not my money, so I don't really care." It drives me crazy.
Until they can fix that thought process it will probably be a while before they can really get a handle on some of this rampant spending.