The Michigan Education Association recently spent beaucoup dues dollars to produce a mailing to all members on why they should support Barack Obama for president.

At least one member wasn't impressed and sent it to us.

In the mailing, the union gushes all over Obama.  "What's at stake?  The future of Michigan's students," said MEA president Iris Salters.  Apparently Jennifer Granholm has done such a poor job they now must look to Obama.

But what exactly is Obama proposing that has the union's heart all a-flutter?  Well, if you wade through the rhetoric...more money.

"Education is the currency of the Information Age, no longer just a pathway to opportunity and success but a prerequisite," Obama is quoted as saying in the mailer.

Really?  By that standard, Detroit and many other districts in Michigan and around the country are using funny money because they are failing our children.  Woefully.  It will take solutions, beyond what Obama is proposing, to help anything.  Simply throwing good money after bad is not a solution.

But that brings us to another question we've asked repeatedly and have yet to receive a decent answer from the "experts."  How much money does it take to adequately educate a child?  We always hear schools need adequate funding, but we never hear a concrete number.  Must we first quench the thirst for "fair" wages and benefits before we can start putting money towards supplies and tools?

It's a question we've wondered and have yet to hear Obama appropriately address.  Don't tell us that answer is above his paygrade, too!