Quote:Well, what's not to like?  LOL.  You seem a decent fellow as well JagIbelieve.  We have completely different world views, but that doesn't mean we should be salty towards one another.  And you keep things level headed, for the most part.  Plus it's good to hear the your perspective, and I respect it while I mostly disagree with it.

 

With that said, money is how most things are fixed...  I mean, imagine if we cut funding to the military and told them to keep policing all the world.  It wouldn't work.  I think it's weird that we want our programs to do so much with so little funding, but we basically give our military a blank check. 

 

You put money into a system, you get highly motivated folks that have all the tools necessary to be the best.  You cut funding and you get what you pay for...  That's been my experience.  Yes there are outliers to my thinking.  But if you look at the big picture, investment is what drives success.  

 

I think that I might have found something that you and I can agree on, that being your final comment "investment is what drives success".

 

However, our current education system is broken and is one of the biggest "investments" that we currently make.  Your solution is to "invest" more money in it.  Why "invest" more money into a broken system?  How about if we looked for ways to "fix" the broken system rather than dump more money towards it?

 

Public education is a huge mess right now.  Why?  How do we fix and address the "why" of it?

 

College tuition is out of reach for most people unless they get themselves into enormous debt (student loans).  Why?

 

I'm not a fan of "throw money at the problem and it will get fixed".  We've been doing that far too long.  Something needs to change.

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