true Sociology major...

All the money that is dumping into the Tsunami efforts gets me a little irritated. Not that these people don't need help but to the degree American citizens are helping...it just makes me wonder why the hell we have so many people suffering in the US. I am a sociology major so i know that throwing money at the poor people wouldn't solve anything.
However, what about the taxes for nicer schools? When that issue comes around, everyone seems to become penniless. Money for education is squandered and we lose out on fully functional facilities allowing for maximum learning capacity. Higher paid teachers, up to date learning technology, the best books, smaller classroom settings for more individualized learning.
All of these things that can push our younger generations into a bright future. They are all lost because people don't pay attention to how important it is to support our schools. I don't give a damn if you don't have kids in school any longer or never did. This is the future. Why shouldn't we give them the best education with all the tools they need to succeed?!
America has shown how unselfish we can be for everyone else and surely after 911 we proved most generous to our own. However, I am talking about when there isn't a catastrophe of mass proportion. I am talking about the suffering every day that is in America and we pay it no mind.
There isn't one easy answer, but there are a lot of things we could be doing to help rectify the plaguing epidemics in American society.
Whew, thanks for reading.
*stepping away from podium*