How can taxpayers pay $700 BILLION to bail-out the rich and powerful, but can't fund high-quality public education?

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At this point the bailout is a toss up. I wouldn't call it one way or the other. I can't directly comment on the bailout, because a new bill has not been introduced, therefore there are no particulars.

I believe this bailout will contain passages to prevent foreclosures on family homes. Keeping kids in a family home will do wonders for their learning. It may do wonders for the teachers that teach these kids and allow them to have a home.

Teachers & students in the same homeless shelter will benefit no one. However, my purpose here is to address the educational situation in the US. While there are some valid points in the discussions for this question, there are some invalid arguments and false premises or assumptions as well.

Education was a govt function reserved to the states, not the national govt. Congress has inserted itself into many areas reserved to the states by use of the " ... general welfare clause ... ". The state & local govts like this because they receive money from the feds and they don't have to tax their citizens to fund these projects.

But federal money comes with strings attached & plenty of red tape. In my opinion the more the feds involve themselves in public education, the more problems we have in our schools. There are educational problems in our schools.

A liberal anti-American stain fills our history books. A good US history class will high light the greatness of the US and also present our failures. You should not apply 20th century values to actions from our past.

Evil existed in the world before Western Civilization existed & the United States was created. Low expectations of students creates low functioning students. Most kids will perform at the level expected.

Teach with the expectation that students will learn the material in a difficult course and the vast majority of students will be successful. During the 60s some of these bureaucrats in Washington, DC came out with the idea that schools should teach the process, not the content. In other words, teach kids how to learn & let the kids decide what they want learn.

Many decide to learn nothing. During the '60s some other bureaucrats decided that teaching our culture was wrong and they stopped promoting the United States. It now became patriotic to focus on what was wrong with the US & not what we had done to make the US a better place.

The English language is the most important aspect of our culture. Anybody see any problems developing down the road? We are down the road & there are plenty of problems.

Now for the real important part. If the students live in a home with both parents, who were born in the United States & English is spoken in the home; these students will compete favorably with students of other nations. A substantial portion of our nation consists of people that cannot speak English.

Bilingual education has failed. If you don't agree, please explain why more & more things are being printed in English & Spanish. Education in the US is often ridiculed in the popular media, especially the sitcoms.

Some kids are afraid of being too successful in school, because they are ridiculed by their classmates. This is more so in minority groups, where successful students are accused of "acting white". Bill Cosby has addressed this issue very effectively, so I'll end right here..

We didn't! Yay! Populace 1/Fatcats 0 .

Strangle 'em with the llines to the golden parachutes! .

Or fixing roads & bridges, universal healthcare, …. Or any number of worthy things that would strengthen the country. The same way they can fund a useless war at $12B/month.

But it's not a fat cat bail-out, it's an unclogging of the finance system that right now is having the equivalent of a heart attack. The experts in finance -- and this does require experts to interpret and understand, not pundits and politicians -- say that all those creative financial instruments that enabled subprime mortgages to flourish and therefore built the housing bubble are like arterial plaque that are clogging the arteries of credit flow. Without credit, our economy seizes up.Jobs disappear.

The great depression reappears. Let's not risk that for spite (bailing out fat cats) or political ideology (like damning the rescue as socialism). Let's get the economy going again and then find those responsible.

Just by inflating our money Either they are going to have to get loans from donors abroad in a different currency market, or they are just going to have to print money to make up the loan. I personally think that they will do some of each if they pass it, so expect your hard earned dollar becoming less than the paper its printed on if its not already that way yet! .

1 First of all we can't afford 700B for a bailout and second, right now we pay more for educating our children than any other country and don't have much to show for it. Our schools are too busy becoming Propraganda palaces for liberal idology.

First of all we can't afford 700B for a bailout and second, right now we pay more for educating our children than any other country and don't have much to show for it. Our schools are too busy becoming Propraganda palaces for liberal idology.

Bailing out the financial companies will cost the taxpayers over $700,000,000,000(seven hundred Billion)How much is this.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.