Re:Better Ways to spend the money (Score 1)

It's simply more important to get more books and new copies of books into kids hands than it is to get them new computers. It's also much cheaper to buy a book (or a dozen books or even a hundred books!) than it is to buy one computer! --- I think priorities is the word. This whole issue reeks of the attitude that is so typical of the US government (and the people ?). Here in the "third" world, even books are not cheap. I remember hunting around desparately, trying to find used/old copies of Engineering books. And talking of computers, a basic PC is worth 6 months salary for a lower middle class guy - forget about the poor. The United States of Northern America has become too insular - maybe you got too much money and don't know what to do with it ?