Ben Cohen's Dessert - Another World is Possible Vol 1 with Shane Claiborne

[YouTubricant]

I wish so badly that it were actually that simple.

[ChocolatePoop1301]

@YouTubricant But it is.

[fw190bk1]

Let me tell you something BEN. We pay for our own schools via a property tax and some money from the state. The reason is we do not want the Feds to dictate what we teach our children. i.e. "If you don't do what we say, you will not get the money honey". The Dept of Education is a bone Jimmy Carter gave the teachers union for helping him get elected. Get rid of it and so many other useless Federal Depts. Take your "cookie" and stick it in your ice cream.

[Bobryuu]

Why is the flashing dot for North Korea in Kamchatka?

[IDisposable]

The schools don't work because parents expect them to be day care not because they are broke (they're not)

[funfsinn14]

I think I would just eat all the cookies...get the metaphor?

[nikflorida]

What does per capita GDP have to do with military spending? Let's not needlessly complicate things in order to obfuscate the simple truth. The per capita GDP in the US is indeed about 6x as much as in China, but the POPULATION of China is about 4x as much as the US, and their military spending is 1/8. so, adjusted for GDP and population, they spend about 1/6 as much as the US, instead of 1/8. Similar math can be done for Russia (the USSR, remember, doesn't even EXIST any more)

[JohnFGoforth]

I agree with ProvidenceAvenue. A major flaw of this is comparing our military to others on the basis of dollars only. In China, where GDP per capita is around $6500 per year and our GDP is around $46000 They can afford about of 7 soldiers to our 1. The other problem is equating funding to outcomes for example- We've actually damaged many African economies with our world hunger humanitarian aid programs by decreasing the local food prices, forcing farmers out of business.

[ProvidenceAvenue]

Peace exists in many parts of the world BECAUSE of the size of our military. We stand against injustice and help with peace keeping all over the world. Those other countries don't spend as much on military, like North Korea for instance, where you serve in the military to eat.  They have nukes that could wipe out entire US cities.

[JohnFGoforth]

@ProvidenceAvenue Excellent points

[ProvidenceAvenue]

This video is very misleading. This only deals with federal funding of education, schools are mostly funded on the state and local level. Our government has thrown millions of dollars into inner city school districts and have seen NO results. The education system is fundamentally flawed and is ineffective for certain sectors of our population. Inner cities suffer from severely negative cultural issues and a rotten moral core.

[Dracolyee]

Woot

[TheCBGBoy]

This is Amazing!

[rfd177]

Shane showed this during his visit to Moravian College in the Lehigh Valley in 2009, it made me a believer. Let's go for it!