On Jul 27, 1:21*pm, "Nancy Young" > wrote:

> Dave Smith wrote:
> > Curiously, throwing more money at the problem seems to be what many
> > people expect.
>
> Despite all evidence that it doesn't work, people still keep trying.
>
Perhaps they should be throwing money more accurately. Per-capita
funding for public education, just to take the most obvious example,
has steadily declined since Reagan's days. Better education would go
a long way toward solving several of these interrelated problems. -
aem