Question about what Obama just said.

[SciFiBoy]

mrstickball said:

SciFiBoy said:

your country has a population of 300m+ ours is less than 70m, thats not a fair comparison, im not talking about giving money to charity either, perhaps you should read my post in full, im talking about in terms of taxation and welfare

you may be right about education, but the media coverage here suggests your nation is one of the few worse than ours, im not saying the UK is perfect at all, in fact i think we should be alot better, hell, i think most of the world needs to be made better and more progressive

 

Americans still give over 2 times more per capita than the UK does. Do the math. We gave over 15 times more money last year than the UK did, and only have 4 times the population. The argument is that in America, we attempt to help our own as private citizens rather than pass the buck.

Yes, the American education system is worse than the British. I am going to ask you (again) why that's the case. Ours is not privatized, and the vast, vast majority of students attend public schools.

Oh, here's the charitable giving highlights per capita:

http://www.cafonline.org/pdf/International%20%20Giving%20highlights.pdf

The UK is 0.7% of the GDP. Ours is closer to 1.7%.

 

 

ok, again, im not talking about charity, im talking about welfare and taxation, and again, i dont think the UK is perfect, i just think its a better place for me as a liberal to live.

Education wise, i dont know what youre doing so wrong, but its possible its similar to the problem in the UK, here schools concentrate too much on meeting targets and too little on whats best for students, i think our system should be reformed to be more student friendly, maybe this would help in the US too