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  • maybe bill should use his money for this cause instead of donating to eugenics. fuckin' asshole.

  • "Medical innovation may raise cost even higher". Really?

    It's actually opposite.

    Regarding California budget: isn't a Brown who fought prop 13. 30 years ago? What was prop.13 is a taxpayer revolt. After then State government failed to constrain medicare and pension cost for public union employees. Why shell it? It's in one bed with public unions who are helping to propel politicians to power.

  • schools are broken because there's not enough emphasis on inspiring students to learn at their own pace and be curious learning something. pushed into a one size fits all mold doesn't help anyone.

    khanacademy ftw

  • I think its the Americans people that to blame were getting to many minorities and were wondering why our countries are starting to look like there's? Nothing in history points to multiculturalism as being a strength. Get over yourselves.

  • The schools are broken because they are meant to be broken. Bill Gates knows that full well. Chalotte Iserbyt covered it in her work.

  • Well no Mr. Gates the schools are actually over-funded. Its the kids and their feminist single mothers that raise them which are the problems these days.

  • @fargonbastedge Do you have any evidence for your absurd claim?

  • State Budgets are huge compared to our top industries, yet the political process isn't allocating resources appropriately. We need more people like Gates interested in this problem.

  • nad why the hell is Bill Gates talking about schools? he's a fuckin drop-out

  • @dankcro Bill Gates is talking about schools because he's a drop-out.

  • @dankcro Actually, that's not true. He dropped out of university when he realized he wasn't getting what he needed, which is understandable considering he needed access to a computer in the 60s.

  • Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

  • Amen on half taxes taken in goes for Warfare!

  • where's ur 50 ferrari's? and 10 castles

  • State governments are going broke for the same reason the federal government has been running deficits for years. Too much spending and wasteful spending.

  • Thanks you, Bill Gate. I really think you are a honest man, even though I don't like your temper.

  • I'm disappointed with the man who knows something about extracting brain power. (Not that I was a fan, but he has time to think, which many can't afford.) When he charted spending in California, Microsoft, and Google and spoke of "brain power" among the three bodies, he pointed spending scrutiny in MS and Google toward analysts! Man. The fundamental difference between private and public is the ability to vote by feet. Take away this from private sector and its books will become just as murky.

  • @baronmorris forced collectivization is the most degrading, murderous ideology ever unleashed on mankind. Protecting the rights of the individual is the only way to preserve our humanity.

  • Cisco commercial at the end.... WTF, they are the ones perpetrating the unethical censorship of all Chinese media and they have the balls to make THAT commercial.

  • Look at the graph at 2:28 and stop to think: when did the US started two wars its people could not afford?

  • "Wars,Wars,Wars...."Stop the Wars and that "Money "will help The U.S. Economy...simple. "stop using the "illegals as scape goats"..comprende!!!

  • oh. we also need a BOLD politician not some half-ass speech specialist.

    i say this won't happen so this country will go down so yeah. i am buying gold

  • i think end the wars is the first step. then competitiveness of the country needs to be up significantly.

  • UNCUT corporate taxes. UNCUT the Bush tax cuts. Problem solved.

  • Bill Gates just harshed my mellow.

  • AGREED.

    "Illegals".... I moved out West and frankly this is straightforward racism and culturalism.

  • I'm sorry, did he give any solutions? Hire the private sector? Where are the taxes on the higher income brackets?

  • The audio is out of sync. Gah I hate it!

  • Let's stop talking about the problems and start talking about the solutions!

  • america should close its border to mexico and deport any illegal alien living here back to their native country.

  • Want to bridge the deficit gap?:

    Reinstitute the principles of free trade and commerce this country was founded on and cut out social security, and medicaid. THAT'S WHERE THE MONEY IS, and that tax and spending trend CANNOT continue without breaking the financial back of the country. Everything else, even the war, is like arguing over lint in the pocket of problematic jeans.

  • @LightWthoutTheStatic Funny we've spent over 1.5 Trillion dollars on the wars, you think it couldn't go a way to improve the issue with medicaid and SS? Oh right you ignore the numbers when it doesn't suit your causes. Truth is the tax cuts ( loss the government over 1.5 Trillion dollars over the same time span) and the Wars cost us another 1.5 Trillion so that nearly 3 Trillion dollars down the hole.. over the last 8 years. 3 Trillion can cover SS for 10 years and Medicaid for 20 years..

  • @ddnguyen278 I'm sorry, but I don't know where YOUR numbers have come from, but in taking projections of gdp growth, social security and medicare costs as percentage of gdp, and with averaging/stretching them over the next 30 years... I got about 552 trillion total (about 16.56 trillion a year). The problem isn't short term, but rather the long term exponential quality of the issues. This war is a defense related PRIORITY that doesn't have the same kind of FINANCIAL priority as an item to CUT.

  • @LightWthoutTheStatic Do you think anything in real life follows a simple exponential function? The reality is medical care cost will grow with respect to economics and technological factors. The largest cost factor and the one growing far faster than the rest is the drug program. Do u know why? Could it be that the companies demand a 1+ Billion profit margin from every drug? and are given 20+ year exclusive patents on them.. Really? We'll we like India have to make a choice, money or people..

  • @ddnguyen278 It's a projection, not a fact. But even projections intimate at big issues. Even if my numbers were much much lower, changes to SS and Medicare will still be warranted. You essentially proved my point while also pulling a red herring. The growing drug program needs to be revolutionized just the same as the growing ineffectiveness of SS and Medicare. I agree the tax cuts should phase out, but I don't agree in radically graduated income tax. 'Spread the wealth' is bad news to freedom

  • why is there lil wayne bill gates song in the suggestion lol

  • Maybe if Microsoft paid its fair share of taxes instead of evading $1 billion in Washington State taxes per year, Washington state would have more money to spend on education.

    Maybe if Microsoft didn't pay a pittance to H1B employees, their employees would pay more taxes which would increase state revenues and decrease state deficits.

  • @diozent Thats a silly answer. What if Bill Gates never created Microsoft? Do you think the wealth he created would simply popup in other locations? No, it was created. 'Tax the rich' is not a solution to bad management and politicking, which is the point of his talk here.

  • mr gates

    since ur a billionare can i hav 1million dollers

  • It is interesting that on March 4th Gates is on TED to talk about corrupt local and state government and how they are incompetent at managing a not for profit budget whereas corporations are so much better at managing their own for profit budgets. Mr. Gates addresses only how state/local government mismanage education? Ahh! MS financially funds Sal Khan an online eduction entrepreneur. On March 9th Sal Khan appears on TED to talk about a new form of education. It's not conspiracy it's marketing.

  • I wonder what it's like to be worth $56,000,000,000 like Mr. Gates is?

    He could spend 3 million dollars every day for 55 years and still have a billion dollars left over yet he gives talks like this about state budgets. He could balance the California budget deficit by himself and build a few space ships for trips to Mars easily.

    I wonder what would happen if you capped everyone's money at a billion or two and used the spare trillions that would free up to solve the problems he mentions?

  • @Imoverallbetterthanu If you capped everyones wealth you'd have much less wealth being generated by industry titans. Their wealth is in the jobs and industry they create. Its not in a big pile under their mattress.

    Asking Gates to pay for everything is like solving your own debt by demanding your neighbour pay for your shopping spree.

  • @rbairos1 You're mistaken, I'm talking about Mr Gates' personal worth, money he could amass should he decide to, it's not in the jobs and industry he creates any more than the value of your car or house is should you own them.

    I'm not asking or demanding him to pay for everything, merely following his lead off topic. If you did a one-off cap at even $5 billion per person and anything extra made after that would have to be given constructively/charitably then I can't see much of a problem.

  • @Imoverallbetterthanu You can't see much of a problem with stealing people's wealth by some amount *you* deem appropriate? How about 1) Many people wouldn't bother to create that extra wealth just for *your* priority. If they currently feel the same priorities you did they'd donate it as Gates is doing. 2) It's theft.

    How about I currently take your car and second pairs of shoes to combat malaria as that level of wealth is higher than most corrupt countries currently experience? Sound good?

  • @rbairos1 Hey it's not for me, and of course it wouldn't be 'stealing', it's just an idea maybe that mega-rich people would have to impose on themselves.

    We're talking about proportion here quite clearly. Are you suggesting $5 billion 'isn't enough' for a single human? I might call that more than a little greedy, how much money do you really need? You have to pay taxes anyway, I suppose you think that's 'theft' too?

    You're being extreme to avoid what I feel is a reasonable suggestion.

  • @Imoverallbetterthanu Its not for 'you'? Why does that make it not stealing? Why is it up to you to decide what someone can keep that they themselves created? And yes, taxes are theft in a society too disorganized to develop more efficient and non-coercive methods of collective payment. Your suggestion to steal the wealth of the most productive amongst you, without limit is the extreme suggestion.

  • @rbairos1 It's not stealing because it wouldn't be taken without consent, I've made that clear already, along with the fact that it wouldn't be 'up to me'.

    You seem to be ignoring what I'm actually saying and making it up instead.

    I suggested two limits, stated it would be self-imposed and explained that no stealing would take place, it's plain to see. I can only conclude that you don't really have a counter point to make.

    Taxes pay for street lighting, roads, infrastructure and civilisation.

  • @Imoverallbetterthanu If its voluntary than by all means its their wealth to do with as they please. The voluntary aspect was not clear by your choice of words. Apologies. However working for the brotherhood is the quickest way to ensure poverty for all. History has shown that repeatedly.

    "Taxes pay for street lighting, roads, infrastructure and civilisation".

    No, taxes pay for coercive state monopolies on those services. Slight difference.

  • @rbairos1

    stfu shill bitch mofo. anyone that gets rich in this country is far from self-made. their wealth is a product of the whole culture.

  • @baronmorris Wealth is a product of the whole culture? Awesome, so exactly what operating systems and computer networking industries did *you* give rise to? Sweeping the floor at a computer factory isn't the same as managing a new computer industry. Thats why citizens compensate each other accordingly. Keep your gutter mouth and looting attitude to yourself next time.

  • your gruntings have no bearing on the truth, objectivist swine. :-P

  • @baronmorris Im no objectivist, and to call me a spoiled child reveals: 1) you utter failure as a psychic (keep your day job) 2) your propensity for ad hominem. Take your insults elsewhere.

    You obviously cannot comprehend the difference between consensual and coercive cooperation. Once you do perhaps you'll stop defending hierarchical power structures based on tyranny.

  • COLLECTIVIZING effort for shared benefit is the cornerstone of CIVILIZATION.

    shared language is a form of collectivism. shared culture and technology, likewise. shared roads and public buildings,

    THE INTERNET U R USING !

    also

    National Defense, FDA, Interstates, FAA, Social Security, NASA, CDC, School lunches, Post Office, Public Education, Soil Conservation Service, Medicare, Fire Dept, Police, DMV, National Parks and Preserves, Free Public Libraries, FCC, 911

    Here' to non-zero sum equations!

  • @baronmorris National Defense, FDA, Interstates, etc. Public "education". Really?? Man, its obvious you haven't spent one minute differentiating between whats a coerced state monopoly and what is not. At least educate yourself on the opposing view before spouting off the tired "But who will build the roads?" chant. Its like a creationist smugly asking an evolutionist to explain how their facts square up with Noah's ark.

  • @rbairos1

    or perhaps you are a spoiled child taking for granted all the synergy of civilization, beating your chest with arrogant and ignorant indignant ingratitude for all the things you want to borrow without giving anything back. Like WORDS and THE INTERNET... Solipsist.

  • @baronmorris Its maddening that you define civilization as coercive non-voluntary interaction. What part of voluntary cooperation is incompatible with your examples of "WORDS" and "INTERNET". Sorry to be rude, but your arguments are plain ridiculous.

  • this is the censored version of bill gates' speech.  the part that bill was criticizing the education spending in teacher's seniority and so on is removed. shame on u!

  • Dear Mr. Gates,

    in case you don't know: money = debt

    And debt grows at an exponential rate because of accrued interest.

    Unless we don't reform our monetary system we will have big crises about every 60-70 years, just like right now.

    It's simple math.....and it doesn't really have anything to do with the government wasting money or faking any balance sheets - it's just the way our monetary system works.

    watch?v=qT4HCfDPOnY

    watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY

  • @blue2495821

    Which makes you understand that " thing " is not written like" think "

  • I found interesting, that the graphs, right about 1999~2000 everything was fine...kind of: "this is the end of the millenium (maybe the end of the world) so let's all work together for a better tomorow", and then after 2001 (9/11...?) everyone was: "Fuck that! I'm getting mine."

  • @leonidasx666 news papers and people said the same thing during the 1970s too. It was called the ME generation. Funny how thing keep happening over and over in a sort of pattern like fashion. I wonder if people are just animals and responding like animals? When times are good people are good animals when times are bad people are bad animals?

  • @generationalist I think the natural response is: Yes.

    When we have more than we need and there's enough for everyone, we all get along.

    But when resources are scarce and there's isn't enough for everyone, fear, competiton, fights (for survival) arise.

  • Where does it say that if we invest more in the health of the nation, we have to reduce education? Granted we have to reduce something...

  • The more in debt you can come out of college with, the less like you will revolt or protest, as you are too busy working to pay off those debts.

    Personally, I am with Friedman, and the problem is the loans via the government. You want education prices to go down, stop footing the bill to a third party. If the school wants to extend you credit, they can, and they risk losing the money.

  • Want to bridge the deficit gap?:

    1. Remove the Bush tax cuts

    2. End the wars

  • @MrFrankBullitt I think ending the wars alone would solve the deficit gap. Actually remove all but defense, and you get back the vast majority of our money spent.

  • @MrFrankBullitt

    That'll help the Federal budget, but won't do a heck of a lot for the States...

  • @MrFrankBullitt

    Remove the Reagan tax cuts, remove overseas military bases, remove tax free mega churches, remove The Shock Doctrine from economic practices. etc etc

  • @MrFrankBullitt love the comment lol send me a friend request on facebook and ill add you into a private political philosophy group. its a debate page where we post links and share our ideas. just serach packersfanrvc@yahoo.com on facebook and send me a friend request. ill accept you and add you in. :) thanks

  • @MrFrankBullitt actually war is profitable, thats just how it works

  • @lngun4311 for a few. Not for most.

  • @lngun4311

    Libertarianally:

    It "boosts the economy", but everything we (as a country) spend on bullets, armor, and soldier salary, is taken from the US people as taxes. The people making the bullets and armor make money, but nobody else does (ancient times, warring people would dominate, pillage, and tax those they conquer, but we really don't see as much of that today. All the "assets" we capture are taken over by a coorporation, and the corporation gets the spoils of war, not the country. )

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  • @MrFrankBullitt

    Facepalm. Do you realize that NEITHER of those issues are paid for by state governments?

  • @SimonDeMontfort1972 Take a look at 2:24.

    Just this last week Congress was negotiating how much to cut Federal grants for college students in the budget. So investing in education is also a Federal spending issue. End the (3) wars, let the tax cuts expire and invest in America's future.

  • @MrFrankBullitt Well, if ending ways can get rid of deficit is ot end the wars, then explain what we plan, the US, are planning on doing to protect ourselves? The entire world is going through a war.

  • Put video cameras in classrooms?! that's a little much...

  • @andresico2 It is? camerias are cheap, you can stream them on like ustream for free, and then any student, even if they are sick, can still be part of the classroom. You can record it and give it to other people, home schooled students. And then you can also rate teachers on how good they are. Look at sites like rate my professor, when you have some choice in what teacher you pick, there are sites to tell you which are good and which suck. Why not have this for high school?

  • I'm not sure how I feel about a computer technology superstar lecturing on improving an education system he dropped out of.

  • @rusty159753 One of the smartest and most successful businessmen ever speaking on a topic involving budgets, something you do a lot in business. Makes sense to me.

  • @rusty159753 I think a dropout would know the difficulties that arise in the school system just as well a graduate.

  • Mz. rosa? ...the illegals alone sunk the American public school system (will she admit that little secret)???

  • @memama2 "the illegals alone sunk the American public school system"

    The more I engage with libertarians and Teabaggers, the more I become convinced that "illegals" are the new "Jews". They are apparently solely responsible for every bad situation the US is struggling through, and policies to deal with the issue usually include militarizing the border, shooting border jumpers, and requiring all brown-ish people to carry papers at all times

    You have more to fear from nationalism, than socialism

  • Sniv - the illegal alien situation has destroyed the States & National budgets - and continues to do so. The corruptocrat dims have even allowed them to flood the SS & voter rolls.(obama voter base) We outta roll ~ over mexico & take them over (to make the whole thing easier on USA)

  • @memama2 I think what you do is move to a free market. What can they take from a system that offers them nothing. No garenteed health care, no free lunch, etc. In our nations history, we had a flood of immgrints, at one point we had no limit to how many we allowed in. Yet we were the most propserous nation in the world. Our governments offered nothing to suppor the struggling, it was on you to make your own way. It is only when you offer something for free, that immigration becomes a problem.

  • @Sinuev1

    Libertarian speaking: It's not that illegals are here, it's that we're spending money on them. If they enter the country illegally, they're not in the system, and they don't pay taxes, so they don't pay for their public education. Same for any benefit the government gives them. Some have the idea of "counteracting" this by taxing everything you buy, and the illegals do put some money in that way, but it isn't equivalent. Illegals aren't every problem, but they are a problem.

  • @axelasdf

    Actually, they do pay taxes. I don't know to what extent on the state level, or state to state, but on the Federal level the IRS reports that 9 million W2s with mismatched identification were filed, with 2.4 million additional ITINs in 2004. While immigrants use social services such as schools, they do not collect on Social Security & Medicare - two entitlement programs which currently account for just over half of federal spending.

  • @Sinuev1 I absolutely agree man. Electing imbecile presidents taking you to war, governors ex-action movie stars, and sinking into overconsumption and debt is all the "illegals" and "brown-ish" people fault. The typical oblivious American has nothing to do with it!

  • @Sinuev1, You are absolutely wrong about the "illegals are the new Jews" comment. The economy is struggling because the Federal Government has engineered the exporting of American Jobs. I assure you, if the economy was fantastic we would all welcome new workers because they would enable us to expand and grow our jobs. But instead, our jobs and funds are going over seas. Since 2001, we've lost 50,000 jobs per month to china. That's a lot to be pissed off about.

  • @DJTmaq The job market, like any other market, is free and the US, like any other country, competes in that free market. If your country is not competitive then it will loose to China or others who are. Jews are not related to this, keep them out. It's a free world and your achievements or failures determine whether or not your economy will recover. It is not about the illegals or the Jews, it's about if you guys will be competitive.

  • Proper funding, better teacher training, and innovative classroom environments and tools are important... but I wonder how much of our failing educational system can be attributed to a kind of "culture of ignorance" that seems to be pervasive for the last few decades at least.

    The best schools with the best staff in the world can't teach those kids who are apathetic about learning. Nor can they make a critical thinker out of those who value their intuitions and delusions more than understanding

  • Sinuev1 - charter schools (or vochers) are the answer to this socilaist disastor NOW! And the masses of clingons inside public schools can just all go = ~ bye bye. Let the parents & guardians decide where they send their kids. Public school system is like a yawning snapping turtle in a cess pool. You can never improve that situation. Just bury it. And begin again with the money $TATCH in the hands of people who care about the actual child in question.

  • @memama2

    Your argument is flimsy. Every country that the United States is lagging behind in literacy, math, and science education have public schooling as the vast majority of educational institutions. That education is socialized is evidently not the problem. All full privatization would do is to bar poorer and disadvantaged children from getting an education, further widening the division between social castes and putting us even further behind the rest of the world. (cont.)

  • @Sinuev1 (from above)

    Further, full privatization of the education sector will abolish standardized curriculum and leave the course selection at the mercy of those who's institutions cater to political and religious ideologies. Vital subjects, such as evolution, will become largely optional - putting us at a major technological disadvantage to nations who teach it and capitalize on it's importance in understanding biology, priming them for the emerging bio-tech revolution.

  • Snivler1 - well we have seen that the commie comrade of obysmal has sneaked ~ his brainwashing book of eco lies & commie errors inside NY public high schools "Speaking Truth to Power" (speaking lies to students) Add on Bill Ayers & George Soros & you've got the perfect public school system right there huh? Sadly this is now the far left empire's goal (your & billy g's)

  • old drunken monkey dadee crashed his mercedes into another car leaving it with the door open - running - hooked onto frightened womens bumper ~ & drunken monkey ~ ran away (but still lectures the world on "what's proper" from a far left liberals mind) *hick*

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  • ..his dad crashed into his costly car onto back bumper of car in front on him & then left the engine on & ~ drunken monkey ~ ran away (the old cogger got away with it of course) And still lectures the rest of us on "what's proper"

  • @memama2 ...his dad... not him. I can tell you are a tramp by the way you judge others, but I wouldn't go so far as you judge your kids the same way.

  • sahcnam1 - the egoic elite never GET IT EVER! (the liberalism + money = Godless idiocy unleashed)

  • I wish I had so much mula, that I don't have to worry what people think about my posture.

  • Ron Paul 2012. Please People!

  • I think the whole point of this video was for Bill Gates to show that Microsoft is cooler than Google

  • Maybe I am wrong but in issues of the economy and social policy maybe Robert Reich, who worked in government and is an Ivy prof. in economics, might be a better source than a guy trying to sell computers. But that is me.

  • @dumbwork, I have taught at the college level for 20 years and I teach social sciences and follow this stuff. His facts about percentage are wrong by the CBO and every other reputable organization. How about addressing the points?

  • dumbwork, I have taught at the college level for 20 years and I teach social sciences and follow this stuff. His facts about percentage are wrong by the CBO and every other reputable organization. How about addressing the points?

  • shmerrrrr!

  • Gates didn't go college but made 50 billion dollars and that makes him an expert on social and educational policy? Stats about education scores in other countries don't mean squat-check the methodology and samples. I know from experience that Sweden also makes sure that everyone has the basics and pays people a decent wage to do the shit jobs that we don't want to pay people for. Things are kinda more complicated than Gates or tea baggers can even comprehend with their online education.

  • @sigmund5 It is quite amusing, no actually morbid, to hear that you have taught at college level for twenty years with your horrendous grammar. No wonder why we are lagging to Asian countries. Thanks

  • I stopped at the first pie chart about spending as a share of GNP. His fact or presentation are just wrong!! The number is not 36% it is closer to 18% which is what it was in the 1950's. Maybe he got his "numbers" from the Heritage or Cato institute but they are just plain wrong.

  • @sigmund5 bill gates presentation is wrong... lol and who are you? make a video about it and stop commenting you little nobody

  • the US education system fails horribly. the whole of the western world knows that

  • @blue2495821

    You sir are a moron. Do you realize these numbers are exponential and not linear? Do you even know what that means? Do you realize that the government was GOING TO GO BANKRUPT 3 days ago and they had to make drastic radical changes to make up for their lack of responsibility?

    Obviously Bill Gates was right. I'm sure he's a lot smarter than you. ;)

  • why does windows 7 suck so much! Answer that BILL before you solve someone elses problems.

  • Finally Bill Gates splurged on hiring someone to do his slides in Keynote instead of pile-of-crap PowerPoint. Steve Jobs 1, Bill Gates 0

  • @Wordlord72 What did Bill Gates/ Microsoft produce overseas? There are companies he worked with but much of the production was done in Redmond, WA.

  • Gates is a Globalist Tool

  • Austrian economics > Keynesian bullshit.

    read 'Economics in one lesson' by Henry Hazlitt for the absolute best introduction into economics, at least that i know of. you won't regret it.

  • @Wordlord72 I'm not talking about that.

    Bill Gates is trying to show people what's happening and you start blabbing off about how you're not impressed and how your "empire" is falling...then you start talking about something that has no correlation whatsoever with my initial argument...which was: "Do you even know what he USED to do?"

    How about you shut the fuck up and read before you start trying to sound smart.

  • all you need to save the country is

    DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS

  • @CaroylnGaither7 what the fuck - you've got 28 sock accounts voting your spam up?

  • Gates is correct that State budgets are the problem. However, he fails to see the underlying cause: the nexus between the Democratic Party and Public Employee Unions. Moreover, the public unions can influence elections significantly, which then bolsters their power at the bargaining table. The correct bottom line is: Support the Republican Party in Wisconsin, support the Tea Party, and support all other political efforts to reign in excessive government spending and public employee unions.

  • @busapp Wow you guys are really working this BS everywhere you can. The Tea Party will be the death of this country.

  • @busapp republican, democrat, tea party ... same thing. Pocket liners each and everyone of them. Show me one long term republican that was reelected this last election that has openly announced they were giving their money back because they were paid too much? Which one is pushing to NOT receive a pension and perks? Which one is serving the people because it is their duty and not an opportunity? Give me a break.

  • They must of used Windows Vista to sync the sound with the video :)

  • This is great but I don't know where Bill Gates gets off thinking a successful billionaire is going to solve the States' problems. States are illogical and that is their problem.

  • @NETWizzJbirk Yeah, what would the world's 2nd richest man know about money?

  • @BlueRonin44 Bill Gates knows plenty about money but not in how to fix the politicians. I.e. Microsoft has 1/3rd the budget but is probably 30 times more efficent.

  • @NETWizzJbirk can efficiency be a bad thing?

  • This needs to be resynced... TEDsters

  • @ShakitaSchofield42 YouTube needs better spam protection. :/

  • We spend a ton of money on education, but there is no strong causal correlation between spending and education outcomes. The main reason is that a lot or even most of that money does not actually make it into classrooms. It is difficult to fire incompetent teachers. Students often have difficult or destructive home lives. Curricula are centralized and do not respond to individual student talents and interests, not to mention the job market. There are lots of problems. Money is not one of them.

  • @Wormtail81 A lot of that is nonsense. Class sizes are enormous because of staff cuts. Good teachers quit because of bad conditions, lack of social respect and bad pay. We spend about 5000 dollars a student semester while most private schools spend 2-3x that much. School have to do a lot more now with the same money. I agree that it is too hard to get rid of incompetent teachers and not enough money makes it to the classroom, but this is due to complex factors that don't have simple solutions.

  • @michalchik Class sizes in many/most schools is smaller than what it was 25 years ago.

    The average cost of Public Education has been reported around $9k yet it appears that Private Education is around $4k ( wiki answers com).

    Education has received a significantly bigger budget in the last decade yet the education level has not raised. The problem is not money but the design.

  • @zzztek 25 Years ago the test scores were worse, there have been marginal improvements since the bottom in the mid 80's. Wikianswers is people making stuff up, it is not wikipedia. There are some religious schools supported by donations that might have a tuition of 4k but they spend a lot more. I will paypal you 20 bucks if you can find one school in America that has a tuition of 4k that does not receive outside support. EVERY cent of the increase has gone to NCLB tests and inflation.

  • @michalchik "25 Years ago the test scores were worse" really? says who? Even if "Marginal" Improvements, there has been major expenditures.

    Cato had similar values to the answers I gave. "2-3x" debunked (did you have a reference?). Keep your $20.

    "Every Cent..." That is BS but then again I was not in favor of Sen. Ted Kennedy's bill.

    I have proven my statements to be accurate, unfortunately you have not.

    The real problem is the antiquated & broken system. Not money.

  • @zzztek KATO is a privately funded organization dedicated to proving the privatization is best. Read thier charter, They start with the conclusion and gather up the evidence that suits them. Using them to evaluate to a question like this is like going to bin laden to learn the history of the US. I get my numbers from the reports I read in scholarly journals while getting my degree in education 6 years back. I also have a private business that works with both private and public schools.

  • @michalchik It is easy to say, "your answers are not correct" yet you provide no answer to rebut.

    If you have numbers, show them. Otherwise you rebut (or lack there of) is crap.

  • Kennedy was a senate sponsor but it was Bushes initiative. 

  • @michalchik Another person who needs a education lesson? Senators/Representatives create the bills. A President can only "suggest"/

  • Ok tell me. How do you make things better without spending money. 

  • @michalchik First, remove those who abuse the funds and take for themselves. As an example, in Baltimore there was an increase in education. Where did much of the money go? To Big Screen TVs. To more assistants. To personal cars. Then there is the over-payment to build a school (kickbacks to friends?)

    Think about it, if the average class size is around 25 and for each child the average that is paid is over $5k and $60k goes to the teacher, where does the other $65k go?

  • @zzztek Well, big screen TV's are useful in the classroom. Kickbacks certainly should be prosecuted. Why aren't they and what should be done to change that. Average class size of 25 is nothing like it is around here. that must be averaging in under filled rural schools and sports teams. You are lucky to find a math or science class around here with just 30. I helped a teacher a couple years ago in LA that had 43. The students were literally sitting on benches. I know no teacher with a school car

  • @michalchik The Big Screens, cars & assistants were in the Administrators/Superintendents office, not in the school. (sorry that was not clear).

    You help make my point, the bigger the class size means there is more wasted other than the class room. Somehow you want to tell me that there are more administrative costs than costs for the teacher?

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  • @michalchik I genuinely appreciate the thought you gave to this response. I do think the money problem is overstated though. At the end of the day, the administrators and collective bargaining bodies representing teachers are looking out for themselves, not students. Education should be more open and less tightly controlled. If we applied the same logic to medical decision-making that we do to parents' ability to choose what their children learn, there would be a legitimate outcry.

  • I have my own private tutoring business and I work with kids, parents and teachers daily. What I see in math and science in California is teachers with 150-180 students. Who can't afford to buy batteries or basic chemicals for experiments, limited to 5 sheets per student a week for copies, infrastructure breakdowns that take weeks to get attended to, more and more expenses pushed on students, no nurses, no psychologists, almost no arts, shop or tech. Everytime there is a cut the teachers get it.

  • @michalchik 150-180 students? How many teachers? The teachers are not responsible to buy the batteries or for cost of copies, their administration is cheating the teachers. Put the blame where it needs to go.

  • @zzztek That is 150-180 students over the 5 periods that each teacher teaches. In fact I know a teacher right now, the only good precalc teacher in her school who has just over 200 students. Math teachers give homework every night, quizzes every week and tests every 2 to 3 weeks, most teachers don't even try to grade homework anymore, Doing a just a half assed job grading takes about 1-2 minutes a test a good job 5 minutes. You do the math.

  • @michalchik True but NOT accurate. You leave out:

    - Student Teachers

    - Teacher Assistants

    - student assistants

    - The other "3" hours

    - Grading during class.

    - Assignments that are reviewed during class

    As a student assistant, I graded most of the the teachers assignments and posted the grades (within the hour I had) I know they need "prep" time but that is already set up from curriculum, books and previous years.

  • @michalchik So the question is whether we are cutting the right things.

  • @Wormtail81 I agree this may be the case but frankly I don't know everything that happens in the district offices and county departments of education. There is licensing, hiring and firing, student expulsions, continuing education for teachers and technology training, compliance with state and federal regulations, school building and remodeling, textbook and other mass purchases, payroll and benefits, substitute teacher coordination, teacher recruitment hiring firing and discipline.

  • The offices are huge though. None of that staff is protected by union contracts to my knowledge. I have no idea who is necessary and who is not and I expect finding out would be a lot of work. What I do know is that every time someone says schools waste money lets cut that waste, the net result is bigger classes, less supplies, crappy infrastructure, cuts of classes, and removal of staff that actually supports the teachers and students like nurses, security, and educational psychologists.

  • @michalchik Those are the groups who are the worst at protecting their interest.

  • I have to say, I find it pretty entertaining that a college drop-out, who also happens to be one of the most successful men in America, is preaching about the importance of affordable college. Next I guess Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg (another couple of college drop-outs) will be jumping on the "make college affordable" band-waggon.

  • @danielt63 First he had some great high-school teachers despite the fact that he was constantly in trouble. i met one of them. Second he knows this is critical because he constantly needs good college graduates for his employees. Third, Zuckerberg, and possibly Gates made important contacts, had access to important training and equipment to develop their ideas because of their time in college. Jobs could not have done it without Wozniak a UCB grad.

  • Vermont. I seriously went from SW to NE, checking every state on the list. Vermont is the one state.

    WHY DIDN'T I GO NE to SW??

  • fukc u bill gates u illuminati peice of cock sucking fukcing sluting whoring peice of shit.