When exactly has funding EVER been raised for any of those things??
That's one of the biggest political fights in the past century: austerity, cutting public spending, and means-testing the fuck out of every social program the government even still offers. This has been the case since the 80s reagan-thatcher year. You can literally look at the budgets of major cities and easily see where the majority of spending goes. Hint: it ain't public schools. Were you not paying attention when people were talking about how much police departments get paid out of the budgets of their cities a couple years back? Have you EVER thought to actually substantiate your beliefs by actually looking up the policies that effect public spending and government budgets?
Is the answer "no"?
And it isn't just a problem with funding, it's a legislative and cultural problem too. But in the short term, without drafting up new laws or changing the culture of society, the best we can do to fix these issues is provide more funding.
That's one of the biggest political fights in the past century: austerity, cutting public spending, and means-testing the fuck out of every social program the government even still offers. This has been the case since the 80s reagan-thatcher year. You can literally look at the budgets of major cities and easily see where the majority of spending goes. Hint: it ain't public schools. Were you not paying attention when people were talking about how much police departments get paid out of the budgets of their cities a couple years back? Have you EVER thought to actually substantiate your beliefs by actually looking up the policies that effect public spending and government budgets?
Is the answer "no"?
And it isn't just a problem with funding, it's a legislative and cultural problem too. But in the short term, without drafting up new laws or changing the culture of society, the best we can do to fix these issues is provide more funding.