US Congress rules that pizza is a vegetable

[Galaki]

Jexy said:

mrstickball said:

 

America has a massive systemic issue with schools and regulation because of both state and school government. It yields worse results at higher prices. You say Britian has less of a problem, and I fully agree. They spend less on their schools and get more than we do. Heck, we've had recent TV documentaries on French schools which have trained chefs who make healthy food for the kids - yet they spend significantly less per student than we do.

This is true.  The beauracracy is so bad here.  That's why it costs about $47,000 a year to house a prison inmate in the United States.  Just look at this crap: http://www.ehow.com/about_5409377_average-cost-house-inmates-prison.html

Yet we say to ourselves... shoot, $47 grand?  It doesn't cost me half that much to live on my own, so where the hell is all that extra stuff going? 

Same with our schools.  Same with just about every government regulated department.  Everytime dems scream at the top of their lungs for repubs cutting funds from schools, saying things like how can we do this to our children?  Our test scores are so terrible because we dont spend enough bla bla bla... We want to throw more money at the problem.  And everytime we do that, it NEVER works.  Because the schools never see the money. 

It's quite easy to explain, really.

Imagine you pass a stack of cash down the table. Along the way, 20 people have touched that stack of cash to push it down the end of the line.

Each time that stack gets pushed, it magically shrink a little. You can go after any of those 20 people that "helped" you push the stack of cash because they all "helped" you.

Over time, each one of them gets more bold and take more of that stack, since there's absolutely no repercussion. The stack of cash at the end just keep getting smaller and smaller.

To compensate, you have to start off with a taller stack of cash. Otherwise, there'll be nothing at the end.