Let me answer that question:
in order to get votes you put money in people's pockets
Also, when you educate people thus you build a constituencey against h1b type programs.
When liberals say 'yes' let's spend money like that, then they realize the foolishness of h1b.
when you educate people in this fashion you build a cadre of people that can compete, but also dominate if we do our best. we cannot train people to dominate if we use normal public schools and let people of mediocre ability work with the high aptitude people. High aptitude are the only ones who stand good chance of 1 day being valuable. It is also very much in the national interest to do this from purely economic point of view in that we need to produce and these people can help us produce.
Bush is going to spend the money some other way if you don't spend money on education like that.
Some politicians will support this just to get the federal claws in local schools. Perhaps so, you pay a price for getting rid of 195,000 limit. Local schools are a disaster for all but some upper income communities, how could federal be worse for others? To get school choice vote we simply offer a 4 grand voucher or better yet a 5 grand scholarship to the very high (top 1%) people. This is how you get the bill passed. Otherwise kaput.
You let tancredo be the first sponsor and then multiple people join him. If the repubs don't let it be on agenda, then you just vote 'no' on all politicians who won't sponsor it. When democrats are able to knock out 5-10 republicans on this issue, that's when it will be on agenda.
It will win soon afterwards.
humble pie will help us.
Education is not the issue here. There are many well educated people who can not find jobs. Your point that we now need the government to fund college falls perfectly into the falsehood that there are "not" enough available educated American workers. It is all a bunch of lies.
However, I do think it would be an excellent idea if the government became responsible for student loans for a person who is not able to find a job in this country because of the governments policy of giving our jobs to foreigners.