Comments on: On Money We Should Be Spending for Our Future

By: Frank-O

Frank-O — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:35:50 +0000

I think you’re absolutely right about education being a far better and far more economical way to spend this money, but I don’t want any of it going through the federal government in the first place. If we kept the money at home, in our states and communities, we’d have even more to use for important things like education. The feds steal and waste.

By: Cliff Carson

Cliff Carson — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:16:43 +0000

Frank. I envision a scenario where education is absolutely free for those who want to continue to built their knowledge. The return could be tremendous. Innovations are not likely without input from those who have the basic knowledge of what is and what can be. Just think of the two events I mentioned in the article. And also think of those events multiplied all across our educational system.

And when you think about it, all costs to provide education come from the taxpayer already. The structure is there for every level from First grade thru Universities.

What the tuition does is limit who can attend.

My point in the article is that by limiting the students to those who can afford upper education, we are paring the pool of possible achievers.

The amount of marginal cost needed to provide free education to every one would be less than 1% of what it costs to conduct our illegal and immoral wars. And I think that most would agree that those who profit from these wars are not the lowest on the economic scale, rather those who profit most are the rich and powerful. They are the people who can pay for their education, no matter the cost.

By: Frank-O

Frank-O — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:56:10 +0000

I’d rather them not spend any of our money at all, especially since they use the “public” education system as a way to inculcate all our kids with ideas that government is always the savior….and freedom doesn’t work.

But, if they’re going to steal from us anyway, I would say that education would be a far better spend, even in its worst form, than spending it on bombing and shooting people.

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Topics about Education » On Money We Should Be Spending for Our Future — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:05:02 +0000

[...] Populist Party Blog placed an interesting blog post on On Money We Should Be Spending for Our FutureHere’s a brief overviewWatching C-Span this week, I happened to take in what money Obama was proposing to spend as part of the Stimulus. One of those items was money to improve the availability of education for all who desire a better education, but can’t afford it. It reminded me of the rapid growth in cost to obtain a good education. And coupled with this proposal were two stories in the local paper the past few days concerning contributions of some college students. It seems that the communications satellite t [...]