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Nah, it's okay. It's hard to know someone's intent with the written word. There's no facial expressions or the inflection of the voice to help you make that determination. It's not uncommon at all for that to happen and I don't really consider it the fault of either side.

Care to go into more detail about "the fix?" I'm genuinely curious about what you have in mind.

I don't think simply throwing money at the problems is enough. (And I don't think you believe that, either, if you stop to think about it.) I think we need systemic changes at fundamental levels of our educational, economic, and governmental systems.

Sadly, those that have money (and/or are being siphoned/"contributed" money) are the ones "writing the rules." Furthermore, the systems in place are benefitting them.

Unfortunately, as the (political/corporate) elite hoard more assets, they are able to "share" more of their scraps and "appease" the masses. But, it's never more than scraps and never anything that noticeably affects the lifestyle of the elite.

Fair share of taxes sounds great, but the corrupt system would still be "distributing" (more like using the taxes in ways that allegedly help the people, but ultimately always entrench their own power) that money.

We need to figure out how to more equitably distribute wealth before it gets to the government. When even two parent households have both adults working (more than) full-time jobs to barely scrape by financially, parenting is nigh impossible.

"Dude sometimes makes me cheer like the Browns just put one over the goal line; sometimes, he just p's me off"

I can see that 100%. 😁 That is why I really enjoyed the 'cast. If you want to immediately captivate me, be willing to call bs when you see it even if it doesn't fit your overall point of view. He did that more than a few times.

Yeah bro, math doesn't lie. No matter how much we want to stick our fingers in our ears and ignore it.

L.A. Police -- 8500 officers, 44 "bad apples". Yet an entire force is narrativized over 0.5% of it's force. I have a niece I respect a great deal. Intelligent, down to earth, very compassionate... during all the protests, defund movement, etc, she was completely onboard with eliminating police. I was dumbfounded. But even more so by her comment on social media: "I'm sure there are a few good cops out there". It was one of those things that stopped me dead in my tracks, as I realized these are the thoughts of a large swath of today's youth -- that somewhere out there in the vast wasteland of s--- police, there are a few good ones.

I've already put a digital copy on my waitlist at the library. Bonefish has me reading way too much fiction, I could use a little break. Thanks for turnin' me on.

I get what you're saying. Which is the reason for my post. It seemed you were open to engaging on the topic about the funding end of things and as you stated, there really hasn't been what one would call a discussion about it brought forward. It seems as though we have managed to have a good back and forth discussion about education so I was simply trying to expand it to the funding aspect.

You could try to actually explain your position, but all you seem to do is spout gobbledygook and cry BS.