Television programming? That's something people do provide on their own without government.
Yes. How well I remember cutting a hole in a cardboard box and pretending I was an announcer. And my news report was actually more accurate than Fox News.
Education is a complex question. What does "public" mean?
You're shitting me.
We have multiple tiers of education, with non-govt. owned being the finest, no?
First of all, I'm talking about SCHOOL not university.
Second, what do you mean "finest"? I bet Beverley Hills High is pretty fucking awesome.
Third, that's like saying caviar is the finest food. That's all very well, but it's useless to 99.9% of the world's population.
(That would be places like Harvard, Stanford, Yale, prep schools, etc.).
That reminds me: Romney likes to say that he did it all on his own because (I think) his rich father didn't give him money to set up his own business. But neglects to mention that his father paid for him to go to one of the most exclusive schools in the country (Cranbrook).
And the more involved government has been with "public" education, the more it's declined from once being quite good to the point it doesn't graduate kids that can read.
Again: I can only assume you are being facetious. Do you know who has the best education in the world? Finland. Do you know who has an incredibly stupid system for funding their schools whereby kids in rich neighborhoods have way better schools because of the narrow tax base? The US.
I would call Stanford a public school because it does allow anyone to apply.
You really are shitting me, aren't you? And Buckingham Palace is public housing because the public is allowed to look at it.
I'm not opposed to states and municipalities building public buildings and roads and the like.
That's nice of you. With your tax dollars? Don't you feel your sacred freedom being infringed? Think of all those moochers who don't pay taxes using them for free!
I'm not opposed to the feds building national highways. Things that are INFRASTRUCTURE like roads seem in the spirit of post office, the mint, the court system, etc.
And public education. And public healthcare. Or do you have a definition of INFRASTRUCTURE that's different from mine?
Funny thing is Mook posted a reference to how the VA provides better care than medicare. While Obama and people on the left were drooling over single payer govt. option, I was posting on these boards (and elsewhere, like HuffPost) that govt. should open a VA type system and serve everyone. The idea is to provide health care, right? What does insurance have to do with health care? Health care is about hiring doctors and paying for medicine and beds and equipment and giving people access to doctors and nurses. I suggest this VA type system would charge people for their care, directly what it costs. So it's not a taxpayer funded anything, but a $10 flu shot and a $20 checkup and a $350 to deliver a child.
You're so sweet. So, essentially you're saying that THE GOVERNMENT shouldn't ever set rates for anything, because that's SOCIALISM. But YOU get to set those rates, because you are PHILOSOPHER KING.
Health insurance is so regulated by govt. you'd think they would be able to make it good by now (except government CAN'T).
You've never heard of Scandinavia, have you?
Denny, you really need to strike out on your own and found your own country on Mars. It's the only way to avoid all that GOVERNMENT.
