Funding
A question arose concerning my entry about the government providing access for the undereducated and underpriveleged. I will try to address this question without diving into my political ideology. When it comes to the question of education and allowing all people equal access to a good or service, there is no budget line to draw.
We, as a nation, have spent approx. $186 billion on the war in Iraq and approx. $66 billion in Afghanistan. So, the assumption that we must "cut" federal, national and local programs to accumulate funds for my proposal of national technology education is unfounded. The money that could be spent on the children in minority neighborhoods across the United States is being spent on rebuilding a country thousands of miles away.
Regardless of the current political times, my point is that our government should, can and needs to make the education of the less fortunate a main priority. Educating them with today's newest technologies will only move us closer to a more equal and communitarian minded country.
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