Seth wrote:Try the free market. It's always better, more efficient and less costly because for one thing it doesn't have to support the overhead of a typically wasteful government bureaucracy and all the bloated bureaucrats who are most interested in padding their own incomes at public expense.MiM wrote:As this line seems to be at the base of many (if not most) of your claims, I am sure you can base it on a plethora of good research results? Especially the superlatives "never...ever" needs backing, as there is little dispute that the private sector is often more efficient than the public.Seth wrote: Government never does anything better, more efficiently or more cost-effectively than private industry, ever.
Maybe, once you have shown your evidence, you would also indulge me in explaining how the (according to you necessarily ineffective) public schooling in Finland manages to strike the top PISA result year after year? As a Finn, I would obviously be flattered by it all being a consequence of our superior intellect, but somehow I still don't believe that's the point. And while you might want to check the numbers yourself, we are not using uncanny amounts of money on our elementary schools, either.
Also, no government-run agency has a profit motive to keep costs down, so they spend whatever they can get, in many cases so they won't have their budgets cut for not using all of last year's budget.
Any private business can and does easily outstrip government in every single area where services are offered precisely because of the profit motive.
In other words, I'm going to take your very clear, pertinent, real-world example about the excellent world-leading Finnish state education system, pretend it doesn't exist and just repeat my doctrine like a deaf retard as though you never made it.
