Clementine
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1. I'd rather have my police departments overseen by my elected officials that I voted for.
2. Not everyone can afford to go to private schools.
If there were more private schools, the cost would go way down. Some private companies run city libraries and they have bigger staff and nicer facilities. They are still free to the public.
Public schools cost lots of money, especially when the home owners must fund pensions and benefits. Most of the money used in the name of improving education is actually used to shore up pensions.
Private companies would offer better conditions for the students.
I suppose some feel good if the police and fire departments were run by people they elected, but they can also be run by people you didn't elect and don't trust.
All we want are things that work and don't cost more than they should. You'll never get that with any government endeavor.
Government has a tendency to waste large sums of money while churning out poor results. That is what we see with the war on poverty, social security and Medicare.
Tackling a problem means reducing the number of people suffering. We see more and more people qualifying for welfare and, these days, many people qualify who probably shouldn't. Why will people take the effort to get a better job by taking more classes or finding a more difficult job if they are subsidized? Welfare was meant as a temporary safety net, not a program to keep people comfortable in poverty. A roof over their heads and food on the table was the deal until they could pick themselves up. Now, we expect to provide homes, utilities, food, clothing, phones, internet and the majority own a vehicle and have cable and the EBT card allows spending money on top of necessities. Maybe if people knew that help was temporary and only provided the basics, they would be more determined to make changes. Maybe more young people would stay in school if they knew there wasn't a system that invited fraud, waste and abuse.
We have millions of illegals and probably tens of millions of children born to illegals who are on welfare. We invite people to come take advantage of us.