I find it very hard to be charitable after reading this.

[JSt0rm]

don't forget the networking that gets done at private schools. Anyone who is intelligent and has a lot of money is going to ensure their children follow them and there is nothing wrong with that.

 

[LegendKiller]

don't forget the networking that gets done at private schools. Anyone who is intelligent and has a lot of money is going to ensure their children follow them and there is nothing wrong with that.

Yeah, and that's the government's fault for not providing better networking in public schools.

I really don't understand why he brought private schools into this. It's like he thought it would make some case against public education (therefore smaller government). However, he got more than he bargained for and ended up looking like a moron and had to back down.

 

[iGas]

Exactly how would you propose doing that? BTW, its not just Somalia, a bunch of countries fit into this discussion.

And exactly what "bidding" of ours are they doing?

I'm not saying that it is going to be easy, in fact that think it is impossible because there are going to be someone that place greed & profit first before humanitarian.

We gave aids to those that we feels that are sympathetic to America, but where have that gotten us? a.ka. Saddam Hussein, Hamid Karzai, Ayad Allawi, etc....

 

[Kappo]

Yeah, and that's the government's fault for not providing better networking in public schools.

I really don't understand why he brought private schools into this. It's like he thought it would make some case against public education (therefore smaller government). However, he got more than he bargained for and ended up looking like a moron and had to back down.

Because of

Ahh, see, this is what I find humorous. You go and rip on a "government school educated" person. So what really does that mean?

How exactly is supposed to educate kids?

let me guess? Businesses?

Name one thing that the government does that is better than private sector (and spends about 40% more than the private sector to boot). Schools are just an example.

I'm not backing down, you are just too busy trying to not mouth-breath and lick windows to get it.

 

[BoomerD]

I've always been a believer that "Charity begins at home." I only donate to charities who use the money here in the USA. (the only exception was when we donated to the Indian Ocean Tsunami fund.)

We're also discriminatory in that we donate to charities where the lion's share of donations (>85 percent) actually goes to the needy, not to salaries of officers/staff/directors,telemarketers. That leaves out many "popular" US charities who pay their upper management like they were corporate stars.