Originally posted by Lokrian
I can't stop doing this and even come close to expressing what is on my mind. Possibly yours is simply the wrong forum for me to try to talk politics in. I tend to look at all issues from multiple angles. I have never had that be a real problem before for anyone.
There is nothing wrong with looking at an issue from multiple angles, but that is not what you are doing.

You are taking totally different issues and mixing their facts.

For example, imagine you were mixing research on cow methane (this really gets federal funding) and oil conservation. Assume the cow methane research said "after 20 years, there has been no noticeable benefit from this research." Now, if you used that conclusion about cow methane research and applied it to whether or not we should continue oil conservation research, it would be totally messed up. You would have taken a fact from one issue, and used it in a discussion of a completely different issue.

That's what you have been doing here lately. You've been taking bits and pieces of one issue, and then dropping them into a totally different issue. That causes a severe incongruity.

You did it twice in discussions related to immigration. In one, you used information about foreign labor in foreign factories and in discussiong the plight of immigrant workers working in the US. That doesn't work. Then in a later issue, you did the reverse.

Then here, you keep obsessing over the value of the parent educators time when that is not the issue whatsoever.

If non-wage spending on one type of education is $500, and non-wage spending on another is $5000, and the cheaper one is doing better, isn't it pretty obvious that the extra $4,500 spent on the 2nd type is clearly not doing a whole lot?

It doesn't matter how much the parent's time is worth. The point is that spending money is clearly not what makes for a good education, since a home schooler spends very little money and produces an excellent education.

Some people are always saying "We have to spend more money on education. More labs! More field trips! More technology in the school! Bigger schools! More supplies!" and other crap. Apparently, all this ancillary crap is not what determines how good someone's education is, since the home schooled kids get very little of that type of expenditure and do a lot better in the end.