| HappySqurriel said: Although the United States really needs major reductions in government spending (after all the municipal, state and the federal governments are all spending far more than they take in with little benefit for their citizens) I'm not so sure I would follow the example of the USSR ... |
I know I'm going way off topic from the thread here, but this is my 2¢.
As an outside observer the main problem I can see with the United states government spending is not that it is too high, but that it is far too inefficiently spent.
For example. It seems as though regardless of how much money they plow into the school system, the results don't seem to reflect the investment. This graph shows that in 2003/04 the graduation rates were not consistent with the expenditure per students. It appears as though if this is the problem, then the question shouldn't be about how much is spent, but rather how efficiently and effectively it can be spent (With an eventual aim of controlling and limiting what is spent).
