looks as if the more money is thrown at poverty, the more poverty grows. public education is good at training public servants to the system. private education teaches people to choose for themselves whom to serve!

i once saw a fundraiser for scholarships for local farmers' kids - most of those kids go on to pursue administration, economics, something irrelevant to farming, and only a few go into, say, veterinary medicine or mechanical engineering. the lady hosting the stage had colored hair, and this was in the middle of a farming community - she was definitely not part of the farming club, or part of it in-name-only.

essentially, the destruction of local businesses starts with capturing the kid's minds.