Fact- We don't spend enough on education. NOw, I would agree with you that what we do spend is spent badly, and there is serious need for reform in a lot of areas. But a large part of the problem is how big corporations have corrupted the process. For instance, because the State of Texas is the biggest purchaser of textbooks, they dumb down the textbooks so Texas will buy them.
Also, we spend less per student than we did 30 years go, adjusted for inflation.
Fact- Obviously, you never heard of the Cayahuga River. When I was a kid, it used to catch on fire on a regular basis. The Chicago river used to be so polluted that it became a joke when Boss Daley talked about some day fishing in it. But then that radical commie, socialist bastard Richard Nixon (no, really) came along and established the EPA and started work on cleaning that stuff up.
Fact- We used to have really crappy roads before another "Communist" named Dwight D. Eisenhower looked at the German Autobahns and realized how inadequate our roads were. Now while there were some military considerations in his plan (Need for possible mass evacuations of cities, Need to move military units across the country quickly), the economic benefits were also there for people to see, and the private sector never would have taken such an undertaking on its own.
Sadly, because now our priorities are on Dancing Horsies for Mitt's Ugly Wife, we have roads that are crumbling pretty badly. That's not from me, that's from the ASCE.
America's infrastructure crumbling, says American Society of Civil Engineers
