[illiac]

“Very little is heard about the need to increase federal spending in education and training, research and development and infrastructure, three areas with proven track records in rate of return, job creation, opportunity and growth. ...”

The rate a return has proven to be abysmal....

[FredZarguna]

ROI on infrastructure is meager, though positive, and the history of return in "Education" has actually been negative. However, return on R&D has been huge when done by private equity. It has actually been decent in some parts of the government. Overall, though, this is a prescription for more failure.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Tyson is a moron. The money that is flushed down the black hole of the Dept. of Ed should be returned to the states where it may do some real good. This shouldn’t even be that too hard of a sell. All one has to do is convince the teachers’ unions they would be better off if we eliminated that big parasite in DC and the states kept their money—more money in the teachers’ pockets.