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Originally Posted by Lenin's Tomb
This pisses me off. You get a lot of people complaining about the inefficiency and waste in the public education system. And slowly but inevitably school systems are forced to work with less and less money. Turn around and look at the military. The military is inefficient and wasteful, and the companies they hire are also. But that budget seems to increase without bounds, especially when engaged in whatever overseas folly of the moment is in effect.
Well, I for one would much rather "waste" money trying to get every child a good education than "waste" money nation building in the Middle East, or Africa.
This spending in Iraq and Afghanistan really does seem like a big taxpayer giveaway to corporate power, education spending rarely seems that way, at least IMO.
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The problem is that the military is on a federal level, schools on a local level.
On a federal level there is no oversight, none whatsoever. Who would do it? The foxes guarding the henhouse?
This is why federal spending should be completely reduced ABSOLUTELY TO A MINIMUM.
Now schools on the other hand are at a local level and have a good deal of oversight. So spending is watched like a hawk and performance is demanded always....uh, outside of Detroit.
Just think about it. It's amazing the federal gov't gets anything done. Incumbants keep getting re-elected, if they don't they become lobbyists. And who does the oversight? Which body does oversight when they're all pork-barrelling it? What citizen group aside from TaxPayers of America or whatever.....who have ZERO power compared to some Military Industrial Corporation.
That's why ALL spending at the federal level should be SQUASHED or at least the absolute most you can get rid of.