I realize Miss Henny, our tax dollars going all over the globe, the Middle East included. The issue here again, is the idea of sending more tax dollars (where we're having all kinds of economic issues here), to Arab schools in hopes of facilitating them to like us more, and thus not choose terrorist activities. There'll be no official U.S. observer verifying the curriculum or how our money is being spent. There will be no audits or oversight. and last time I looked, despite the multitudes of public schools and the gazillions of money we spend right here on public education, gangs still flourish in the urban centers of the country
And the point that you make in that we already send $$$, yet they still don't care too much for the U.S. simply reinforces the void in so much of liberal intervention via government mandate ideas, throw money (our TAX dollars) at a problem, and if it doesn't help.....throw more.
So no, it's not brilliant, when the problem still exists, and the notion is we simply need to spend more money....especially when its other people's money. If you or Obama could demonstrate ACTUAL validated reduction in the amount of terrorists being produced in the middle east by the monies provided so far, or at the very least, demonstrate that such a program would include U.S. oversight on the curriculums being presented to the children, then we might have someplace to start. But simply proclaiming that we're going to send more $$$$ and hope upon hope it'll be helpful in decreasing terrorist recruiting, misses the entire notion of responsibility and judgement
Sirs, if you just want to discuss the concern about where American money is going in a time of crisis, point well taken. But since foreign funding isn't going to stop under any president, let's discuss the issues at stake here.
First, in regards to the schools - how do you know there will be no audits or oversights?
Because if there were, we'd see such attached to such an agenda. Specifically to alleviate the concerns folks like myself have. For those who have no problem with where our tax dollars go, so long as "the rich" and "Big *insert massive corporation here*" are the ones being taxed to pay for it, it doesn;t matter if there is or isn't any oversight. I can thorougly understand why there wouldn't be, as it would be perceived as the U.S. meddling in another country's policies and education of their children. I can even see the cries of propoganda be wailed by not just people in thos countries, but the hard core leftists right here. Naaa, they'd prefer we send more $$$$, no strings attached, and then we hope and pray it's supposed to help
Could you alleviate my fears by linking me to the Omama site that provides the oversight and audits that are to be imposed prior to these billions more going overseas??
And I disagree with your conclusion that "OK, we tried, we spent a fortune and nothing changed." How fast do you want those changes? And what can be more brilliant than educating the youth of a culture? This is the kind of program that takes years to see fruition.
With all due respect Miss Henny, the speed at which I would have been expecting changes have been ongoing for decades, specifically here. More money, decreasing results. MORE money, continually decreasing results. Since the 60's, we've been increasing our education budgets, practically exponentially, while test scores continually decline. So, let's flip the question. When does one realize that simply adding more monies, while watching said programs continuously fail at their goals, connect? How long do you wait and what's the ceiling of other people's money do you apply?
But Sirs, seriously, everything starts with the youth. You can change the mind of adults so well, but you CAN give their kids something else to learn from.
Miss Henny, I HOPE you're not of the camp that if I don't support X for the children, I must be against the children. That tactic by both sides around here gets pretty sickening. If you don't support this massive ineffectuai, bureaucratic, bloated, inefficient program for "the children", or for "the enviroment", or for whatever, that supposedly means you're anti-children, anti-enviorment, anti-whatever. Yes, kids do learn, and I would hope that our monies aren't necessary to educate them that the U.S., isn't really all that bad. That's literally trying to bribe them. Show me some direct oversight on curriculum, including the efforts to truely demonize terrorist acts, then we can go from there
