In 1949 Costa Rica abolished its military and redirected the military budget to education and health care. Its health care system is rated about the the same as the USA as well.
This week on our Viva la Voyage travel photo site we have photos posed of the remarkable street art of Valparaiso, Chile.
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I think they have their priorities right.
A nice bright simple but beautiful building. Why can't dictators in other countries see the advantages of a system like Costa Rica? Age old question, I guess!
Agree with Kate and Sharon..politicians so often get the priorities confused.
Excellent idea! I bet when school is in, that bike rack is full.
Costa Rica wisely decided that its best military option was the U.S. Department of Defense. The money has been well spent elsewhere.
That is an exceptionally modest building. It illustrates that one can get a decent education without all of the fancy stuff that we cram into schools these days. Newtown, Connecticut, is replacing the Sandy Hook elementary school at a cost of $54 million.
No, my photo today was not on I-95. I had visited my cousin in a small town near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, so I decided to continue from there for 50 miles or so on a state highway where I came across miles of marshes.
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