[BoiledCabbage]

You're somewhat arguing his point for him. We spend significantly more per student than almost anywhere, and our education is comparatively poor. We spend significantly more per patient, and our healthcare is comparatively poor.

How much we spend isn't a metric of it being good. It's demonstration of failure.

[jtbayly]

Yeah, but the parent comment attributes the problem to “massive underfunding,” and that claim was not questioned, but seemed to be accepted.

My point was simply to say that throwing more money at the problem is a poor solution. Pardon the pun.