We can bail out Wall St., but not education? WTF?

Mr. Maven and I went to lunch last week with a co-worker. He’s a software engineer from India. Smart guy, who set us straight on a couple things.

Like Pakistan.

Like China.

Like education.

He essentially said what Robert Reich says in this column, that we can’t afford not to bail out our schools. My co-worker thinks that we’re crazy to keep cutting education spending, saying that no other sensible country would do that, and he can’t understand why we are.

I told him: America elected George W. Bush, therefore it’s clear that they don’t value education. Governor Jim Gibbons,( R-NV )  is proof of that on the state level. He’s got his.

Read what Reich has to say:

Bail Out Our Schools

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