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To: i-node who wrote (983676)	11/23/2016 8:18:37 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583677

Initially Charter schools had support because of the idea. The idea being that the public school system was too entrenched in its antiquated ways, resulting in diminishing returns. So, if we allow a charter school to do something they believe is going to get better results, if we allow a few of them to show us alternatives, maybe we can discover better ways and bring the demonstrated improvements from alternatives into the mainstream of the public school system. The charters have demonstrated that to some extent but people don't believe these alternative approaches will work for the general mainstream population. The argument being that it is just being used as a way to segregate based on socio-economic status.

To: i-node who wrote (983676)	11/23/2016 9:02:55 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583677

Keynes about Trump-lol: "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." You just say stuff that you don't know anything about. I think the overhead for Medicare is something like 4% and the profit fmarginn or private insurance companies is 40%. And for big Pharm? Check out how much less expensive common drugs are in Canada! As far as the general public goes, we have the most expensive medical care of all the Western democracies, and one of the largest health problems. There are certain things that the public should be doing and certain things that private industry should be doing. Sociology 101 explains why! There are reasons-lol! But the concept you do not seem to be able to comprehend, is that when the public sector takes care of social problems, they are directly responsible to the electorate. It is Democracy inn action. If we don't like what they're doing we vote them out of office. If we don't like what private corporations are doing, what do we do about it? You of course have never gotten to that point in your thinking, so you wouldn't have a clue. Did you somehow miss the news of how many millions of people Wells Fargo cheated, or how many of the other big banks cheated? How many big banks cheated people in 08? When you don't have good public oversight, that's exactly what happens. You want to give us all this sage advice about how we should trust the private sector. Are you nuts? <<But the fascinating thing about your post is that it is totally ass-backward, almost as if you were trying to be an idiot. The private sector almost always outperforms the public sector, and certainly, the bigger the government entity the worse the performance. When you roll out the health care argument, it is time to write you off as utterly incompetent. You know nothing about that issue. You are rolling out the same old faile