Death and Taxes Options

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This is an interactive map showing where our tax money is spent and where each % goes.
I thought it was pretty cool.


http://www.thebudgetgraph.com/

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8040402921.html

Money has never been an issue.... Our state (Ohio) added a lottery to help fund the schools.
What the did not tell everyone, was that the school earmarked monies were removed from the general fund, were replaced by lottery profits and spent elsewhere. This left a zero sum gain to the schools.
Of course the extra money was spent to... well buy votes at least.

Now with declining population, people spending their cash on other sources of "entertainment" we are in a fiscal crisis with our schools. For 30 years the state had all his "extra" lottery money an now they are broke?

They really are not broke, rather than fix a delapidated system and find a way to educate children at a reasonable cost they hold a gun to the taxpayers and ask for money via the ballot or they will remove the sports, busing etc....

Detroit turned down an offer for a buisness man to spend 200 million of his own money to build 15 new charter schools at a total cost of 0000 dollars to the taxpayer and was shot down by the federation of teachers and the unions. Considering that the detroit school system has the worst graduation rate (25% of freshman make it thru) What is their reason for this? power, money or both?

If we as taxpayers were to even apples to apples compare the cost of education in public VS private schools and then compare the outcome we would throw away the public school system in a sec.
Well of course we could never do that because one praticular party is beholden to them no matter how badly they fail.

In another 10 t o15 years when the rest of the world is linked and totally live without schoolbooks, a computer in every home, interactive study guides... etc.. How far behind will our current broken system be?
Think about your cell phone 10 years ago.. your computer.. your dot matrix printer... and where we will be in the future.
Does anyone have faith that our government run schools will be ready to compete?