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>>nirmal+(OP)
If anyone wants to read his tech policy, here it is. This election is a battle for net neutrality.

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/

The education policy is also good, it basically comes down to "spend more money on education."

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/education/

>>rms+Y
Is there even a positive correlation between throwing more money at education and having better-educated kids? It looks like at some point over the last thirty years, we got to the point that the administrative cost of distributing the next dollar for education exceeds one dollar, so the extra money gets soaked up by bureaucratic inefficiencies.

But whatever! It's only billions and billions of taxpayer dollars spent by a monopolist that buys its product from a cartel! Clearly, the important thing is to give more money to this completely deranged system, rather than fixing it.

>>_h4xr+F5
Right, let's reduce education! Ignore the order of magnitude more funding provided to the Department of Defense.

This never made any sense to me. I target my voting like I optimize my code. Look for the biggest inefficiencies and start there.

>>TFranc+i6
I don't see why that's relevant. I was responding to the argument that, contrary to the last few decades of high school spending for poorer performance, we might want to consider lowering spending. Unless there is some kind of treadmill of escalating dumbness, and we have to keep spending more and more on schools to break even.

>>_h4xr+07
Education spending is not just a single number.

Should we spend more or less on:

Sports, Teachers, Food, Text Books, Staff, Administration, Trips, Gifted Programs, Counseling Services, Science Fairs, Music Programs, preschool, 1st, 2nd...12th, Collage, Grad School, PhD Programs, Anti Drug Programs, Anti Teen Pregnancy Pamphlets, etc.

I think it's safe to assume each of the above have related rates of diminishing returns. If you wanted to evaluate how effective changing each of the above programs where you might come up with an interesting idea but hacking education is more than just how much money should the US government in total spend.