“Probably the best thing we can do for poor children is to get rid of teacher unions and our antequated soviet style education system.”

I don’t mean to pick on anyone here but when data shows a trend that neocons don’t agree with they don’t just shoot the messenger. They also try to shoot whatever they perceive as a flaw in the dreamworld they live in. In this case, I have to wonder what teachers unions have to do with causing childhood poverty! The last time I checked, teachers unions purpose was to protect and support TEACHERS and EDUCATORS. Likewise, how many more children would go without immunization from common diseases if “our antequated soviet style education system” did not require a basic level of immunization before a child could attend?

But I guess they happened to be standing in the way of a utopian ideal so they were fair game to blame!

And look what little they bring! “Guns not butter!”

One guy is worried about Iran and N Korea! I don’t THINK these two nations have intercontinental navies, air force, or missiles. I feel fairly secure against any threat from them.

Remember this comparison is among INDUSTRIALIZED nations. No doubt some on the right would have no problem with our poor living in third world conditions before they would be concerned….if then.

Thats the whole point. How bad can it be?

My kids are fine, what about yours, need a bowl of rice? I

Wouldn’t take my kids to any other country, what about you?

When are ya leaving?

Pulleeezzzeee!!!!! There is a problem in this country with the care of the young, and it needs to be looked at with a very critical eye. Shooting the messenger aint going to make it go away, but with the neo-cons living in their shoot first, ask questions later world, it will take, again, the liberals actually doing something about it.

And a new report just out the other day shows that healthcare costs will double in the next ten years.

I can’t wait till we see how many here will be paying 1k a month for their health insurance…and how many will have none.

Bury your heads, you did it when Hillary tried to address this years ago.

Ok, when I opened my browser this morning only four people had commented on this report!

Reading about a report ISN’T reading the report. Data doesn’t lie. We could do much more in this country with regard to health care, infant mortality and safety.

Just because we are not a third world country doesn’t mean we are perfect. And naysayers will never improve our situation.

Liars, damn liars, and statisticians.

As a poster put it above, the fact that people are still trying so hard to get IN says it all.

Years ago there was a good song (Cat’s in the Cradle) that said so much.

Bull crap has more worth than this article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States

I saw this story last week. I wondered when we would get it here.

This is a shameful statistic. But in some it will not bring shame. It will bring a smile and smug satisfaction.

They require that some, even most, have a lower standard of living than they do to reassure them that they are superior…somehow.

I agree,

The money should follow the students… I say the same thing for further education, be it VoTech or WSU or Friends…

— James Madison, Political Observations, 1795

Good question, Heckler.

If you look at the bogus pie chart that the IRS sends out every year with your tax forms, it shows military spending is only some 24 percent.

This is a lie. They roll in the Social Security and Medicare into that mix.

But Social Security payments ARE NOT paid by income taxes. They are paid by Social Security taxes (duh)–and by the way, we are currently collecting MORE taxes for Social Security than we pay out. The IRS can only include SS payments OUT if they are going to include SS payments IN, which they don’t.

The federal gov’t further massages and minimizes the figures for military spending by 1. requesting “emergency” funds for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq that will only be counted into the budgets later 2. rolls military expenses into unrelated areas–the Dept. of Energy for instance maintains nuclear missiles and 3. lumps all interest on borrowing for military spending with “interest on the federal debt.”

When you tease out all these hidden costs, you find that the military expenditure for 2005 was 48 percent.

See the pie chart below.http://www.warresisters.org/US_military_spending.htm

Given the latest budgets however, the estimate is that last year or this year, military spending will top 50 percent.

Over half? I don’t think so, show me the pie chart.

If you want to stop being like Marx, stop breathing air.

I encourage you to start right now.

Good luck.

There’s a reason the Communist Manifesto included making all schools government run, and it had nothing to do with child labor.