Dr. Legend wrote:Federal and state spending aren't the same thing.
Indeed not. But the discussion over that originated from a source that was talking about economic growth based on the president at the time- and the policies implemented by them- and so was clearly about federal policy.
It is worth noting though that even at the state level democrats are generally more supportive of increased (or not decreased) spending on education and infrastructure. Of course this does not necessarily mean this is a good thing- but again I was using the internal logic of the source Laurence Drake was using to argue for the superiority of the Republican party to argue against him.
Dr. Legend wrote: Republicans are currently trying to reform education on the state level, but Democrats are refusing to buck the unions. Union dollars are just too good to deny.
After recieving this wonderful wisdom from you I went to do some more research, and given that it is the damn democrats who are to blame for the terrible education, imagine my surprise to find that on
this list 12 out of the bottom 15 states for high school graduation rates went for Mccain in 2008 in the presidential election. (He carried 22 in total.) If you go by percentage with a bachelors degree then 11 of the bottom 15 states went for Mccain. If by percentage with advanced degree (probably the worst choice of the measures available for this purpose) then it's 12 of the bottom 15 again.
So I'm afraid I require more wisdom from you, how is it that the democrats have more power over the education systems (as they are the cause of education problems- I learnt this from you just now- its them and their union money) in republican states than in democratic states?
Dr. Legend wrote: This Union-Democrat control of education has led it to become one of the worst in the developed world, and you are a great example of a product of this system.
I'm actually not from America, again I'm noticing a weird pattern, we're much more left wing over here in Europe and also generally have better education systems, as you noted. Funny how that works out.