Democrats might have a spare magic wand...but it may be a bit used. They've been waving it around chanting "Abra cadabra" then tossing cash at a problem hoping that will fix the problem.

1) Give teachers and administrators an incentive to keep costs low. Profit sharing works in the private sector. That should help keep education focused and on tasked instead of spending money willy-nilly without any accountability.
2) Increasing funds for education won't improve education. http://npri.org/blog/does-more-spending-...

http://npri.org/blog/what-if-we-increase...

3) If you want education to improve, try serious reform http://npri.org/publications/no-magic-be...

Lisa come on, you just interviewed every Keynesian you can find. Most economists will say the bailout is bad"if not horrible.

We got hoodwinked thanks to an economically ignorant media and self interested politicians and Wall Street CEOs.

The government demanded a bailout, you all bought the hysteria, the economy tanked AFTER the bailout was passed, but nothing has happened since...and the government hasn't even spent the $700 billion.

Credit never froze, but you all bought that too.

And now the media is buying the half-baked idea that saving the auto industry will literally save the economy.

WHAT BUNK!

The new auto bailout (down to 25 billion) still costs $50,000 per existing job, NOT JOB SAVED. Without a bailout we don't know how many jobs would be lost and we don't know how many jobs the bailout would save.

Without the bailout the auto industry will not suddenly disappear from America's shores. All of those jobs will not be lost, so we know that the bailout will cost much, much, much more than the $50,000 per job.

Furthermore, that $50,000 per UAW worker must come from somewhere. It doesn't come out of thin air. It comes from the pockets of taxpayers, from lost sales in other business, from lost investment opportunities elsewhere in the economy.

A BAILOUT IS NOTHING MORE THAN A WEALTH TRANSFER.

Furthermore,

1) Not all auto dealerships in Nevada are GM and Ford, so even if GM and Ford disappeared forever (unlikely) we wouldn't experience half the impact this article implies is possible.

2) The only reason we have auto dealerships is because Nevada state law OUTLAWS factory direct shopping or other retail methods of buying a car.

So he's wearing more pastels this season?

If people are paid based on "responsibility" and the greatest responsibility is teaching children (arbitrary at best) does that mean we better pass laws to reduce CEO pay, movie star pay, lawyer pay, so on and so forth.

Or should each teacher be paid $35 million a year? (Why stop at paying them $135,000 firemen salaries).

If teacher's are so valuable, why make laws to restrict the number of teachers?