Yup Buster, your video proved me wrong. We should shut down all public education. They are the reason people are uneducated. The free market will take of education for all society. The free market will take care of everything. Cops, firefighters, education, military, should all be taken care of by the free market. You see schools are paid for by property taxes which is why better schools are in higher income areas. I am sure the free market will make a better system.
Is a bad educational system not going to produce students with inferior educations? Private schools outshine public schools in nearly every instance. This educational system is not about actually educating children. Do you deny that our public school system is a disaster? You'd have to live on the moon to not notice that. The government runs the system, why does the government not incur the blame? We live in an age where public school unions are actually suing to stop voucher programs that gives the "disadvantaged" kids the statistically-proven best chance for success. It's akin to a plantation getting the state to return runaway slaves. Gotta make that cash, homie--keep em in da district.
Secondly, for cops and firefighters....don't be fcking oblivious. Of course the government has a role. That doesn't mean we overpay overweight policeman to jack it for 30 years on their way to too costly pension. But the government has a role, no one is saying they don't and when you do to that argument you look like an idiot every time. You look like you don't have a real response. "Oh so now we're gunna live in a world where there isn't government!!" No. For the record, in the rare comparison of private police authority vs public police authority, the private enterprise demolishes the public ones. That would be airline screeners. The only airport in the country that has a private service has the best safety and performance record in the country.
And the military. Good God. Talk about waste.
Please do not lecture me on how schools are financed. I am knowledgeable on the subject. But you are mistaken if you think those other schools are good schools, or something resembling an efficient system. They aren't. And you're being ignorant to the fact that suburban schools and urban schools are two totally different beats, property values are one of many difference. Still though, when an inner city child is placed in a private school he outperforms his peers (exponentially as the grade increases). We don't allow choice. We don't allow the money to follow the child. We don't allow competition. Regulated competition, the cornerstone of capitalism and the free market, has crushed the price equilibrium of nearly every good and service since its inception. It has continually produced a better product.....but we don't see it in schools. We don't see it (as much) in health care.
We don't see it where competition is replaced by programs.
The free market does make a better system. A decent politician can come up with a program that gets the government to tackle a problem, a great politician develops a policy that gets the free market to solve he problem.
My mom chose her fate, thanks for pointing that out. She never once blamed the government but I am glad you came to that conclusion. She just wanted her kids to have opportunities she never had.
Good for her. Honestly.
You personally witnessed stupid ghetto kids impregnate each other. You were in the room and heard them. Those kids would rather live in poverty on the government dole right. That makes perfect logical sense.
I quite literally talked to them. But you present an untrue choice for them. They are choosing a welfare check (a large one) over working at Wendy's, because they were never given a real education. I don't really blame them so much. As much as I clamor away at irresponsibility, it's really just a lack of education. I've known people in these situation who have woken up and desired a real path to success, and I'm calling that responsibility, and I'm calling for more of it in this so-called society.
Michelle Obama and Joe Biden are not the point. You want to create this narrative of Mitt Romney the self made man but do not want to accept the golden parachute he had strapped to his chest, or should I say the golden safety net his father provided.
Mitt Romney is a self-made man as much as the majority of Americans are. He was born with a great set of cards, and he took that and made the most of it. His primary social activity at Harvard was to organize weekend study sessions so people could get straights A's. When you graduate in the top 5% of your class, simultaneously, in both Harvard Law with a JD and Harvard Business with an MBA....I can't not call you a self-made man.
Guys like George Bush spent their time at Yale doing cocaine. He is not a self-made man.
I sure hope you don't take any government money to go to school. That makes you a moocher. I sure hope you don't go to a state school, that goes against the free market that you and your video were championing.
Well you should probably be aware that the US Army pays for my school because my father fought and died for this country and his benefits were transferred to me.
I do go to a state school. Where have you heard me say that
states should provide an education? And let's not pretend like I go to an efficient school. I am almost entirely unhappy these days with Ohio State's management of my major. And yet, with universities being primarily public sector endeavor, only 15 of the top 50 American universities are public ones. Hmmm. 70% of the upper echelon universities are private ones. Capitalism has crushed price equilibriums everywhere, and higher education will be no exception. It is already very obviously happening, and it will hit critical mass when the bubble bursts--we can teach the rudimentary classes via computer programs. There has been great progress on this front (in the incentivized private sector) and one day it will overtake the whole thing. People doubted capitalism and technology before, they will doubt this too.
Here is the thing about government programs. They are only a problem when you do not benefit from them. Ask your mom what she things of maternity leave. Government mandated and insured. That bitch should be fired because if she isn't willing to work pregnant, then the market will find someone who will. That is why all the government programs your man Mitt Romney wants to implement are not handouts or welfare, they are good in your opinion.
Well don't try to put me in some imaginary corner in which all government action is inherently evil. That is fcking stupid, and sadly enough too often the comeback you people try to present.
Maternity leave is the best example you can come up with? That's pretty weak. And again, it's not so much the program, as it is the level of government instituting the program. The higher the level, the bigger the bureaucracy, the less efficiency, the more failure.
