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Welcome to reality (none / 0)
But what you describe is a sure road to rich people being educated well and poor people being left by the wayside.

As opposed to what we have now?

Having a check to spend at a school across town doesn't help if you can't afford the bus fare there and back.

Competition benefits all, Tim. You don't need bus fare to benefit from the Walmart on the other side of town. Safeway by your house will lower prices and improve quality to keep its customers who can drive to its competitor. A free market in education works the same way.

And, we need to consolidate school districts.

Because nothing achieves major improvements better than a larger bureaucracy and more central planning?


If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's "free."

by TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsTwba on 07/31/2010 11:21:46 AM EST

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Contradictory, much? (none / 0)
So, you don't mind that Wal-mart has centrilized buying power or Safeway can have one or two district offices in a state instead of one for every city they are in, but you won't afford the citizens the same opportunity when it comes to education?

I know Libertarians are dead set against planning for the future on anything past their own front door, but the rest of us feel a bit of responsibility for the society we live in. Hell, I'm a diagnosed "anti-social personality," and **I** have more compassion in my litle toe than the average, run of the mill Conservative.
Competition doesn't benefit anyone but the profiteers when the competitors rig the game in their favor. There are still some of us who are willing to fight the good fight against the greedy and self-interested.

Yeah, yeah, and if the Safeway's prices are too high, I can always move closer to Walmart, right? And if my boss is paying me shit wages, I should just get a better job, right? Gawd, everything is so easy in Right-Wing world...


by MedfordTim on 07/31/2010 06:31:18 PM EST

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So, you don't mind that Wal-mart has centrilized buying power or Safeway can have one or two district offices in a state instead of one for every city they are in, but you won't afford the citizens the same opportunity when it comes to education?

So you don't mind that competitive pressure drives Walmart and Safeway to continually strive to deliver better products and services at lower prices but you won't afford the citizens the same opportunity when it comes to education?


If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's "free."

by TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsTwba on 08/05/2010 02:11:08 PM EST

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