14 APR 2011, Thursday

• Ahem...when you make an investment, you should do so only upon expectations of a positive return.  No?
• Check above chart for Federal level education expenditure increases versus 'reading, math, science test scores'.
• Investment?  I don't see it.  Seems more like pushing on a string and wishing.
• Answer one simple question..."How is it that we launched the entire computer / internet age while spending was so relatively low in the 1970's?"
• Simple answer...progress comes from innovative ideas and persistent effort to bring those ideas to fruition.  It doesn't come merely because we haphazardly throw more money at it (ie, Bachelor's degrees in History of Western European Art, etc).
• Government should perhaps get out of the way and let folks, instead, "pave the way" through their creativity and dreams...which happens naturally as part of the human condition that seeks improvement and doesn't cost anything.
• And THAT only happens at the individual level...not as a collective (ie, failure of communism / socialism through the ages).
• Just saying...
• Curious about what your taxes pay for...specifically?  Click here, put in the numbers and get a breakdown!  Eye opening.
• Or, try this one.
• Or, this one.