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Phatscotty wrote:Good intentions, poorly thought out (if thought about at all) are the cause of most of the world's evil.
Lootifer wrote:Phatscotty wrote:Good intentions, poorly thought out (if thought about at all) are the cause of most of the world's evil.
While I don't really care about the American health system (seriously Obamacare or no Obamacare you guys live in a very weird world), but I cant let that statement pass by.
My correction:
Good intentions, that are subsequently butchered and morphed by both the democratic process and the demagogues in power, are the cause of most of the world's poor policy outcomes.
Well, we had good intentions
Phatscotty wrote:
DoomYoshi wrote:There was a Jewish law that dictated pi=22/7, or so I heard from somebody who read it on the internet or something (I literally "learned" that in public school, but have yet to find a source)
I think I need to attend Prager to learn more.
saxitoxin wrote:Phatscotty wrote:
I kinda detect a ... ahem, theme ... in "Prager University's" classes ...- Is the UN Fair to Israel?
- Israel's Legal Founding
- BDS: The Attempt to Strangle Israel
- Aznar on Europe, America and Israel
- A Black South African on Israel
https://www.prageruniversity.com/Political-Science/
I didn't go to their other departments, but I'm suspecting it's something like this:SPORT 102 - Sandy Koufax Studies
ENGLISH 180 - Did Shakespeare really write in Hebrew?
MUSIC 120 - How to Build and Burn an Effigy of Richard Wagner
BIOLOGY 120 - Arguments For And Against Circumcision
MATH 101 - Israel Invented Algebra in 1948
MATH 102 - Algebra: a Gay Black Man in a Wheelchair Admits It Did Not Exist Before 1948
MATH 103 - Algebra: a Communist Mexican Buddhist Also Admits It Did Not Exist Before 1948
MATH 104 - Algebra: With all the evidence it didn't exist before 1948, why are people still lying?
PSYCH 101 - Survey of Dr Ruth's Research with All References to Sex Removed
warmonger1981 wrote:I hear it's a system to put smaller insurance company out of business as only the largest health care companies can compete.
warmonger1981 wrote:I'm more worried about monopoly instead of the little guy.
warmonger1981 wrote:Many choices for all would be better than one choice for all. Competition is far better than a dictator.
Symmetry wrote:warmonger1981 wrote:Many choices for all would be better than one choice for all. Competition is far better than a dictator.
Is that really how you see it? I'd be interested in a more nuanced take, if that's OK.
Phatscotty wrote:
warmonger1981 wrote:I'm more worried about monopoly instead of the little guy.
mookiemcgee wrote:I mean... are public schools a bad thing? would it be better if they were all for profit companies?
tzor wrote:mookiemcgee wrote:I mean... are public schools a bad thing? would it be better if they were all for profit companies?
"Public" schools have a lot of complex problems with them. In general, yes they are a bad thing. They are the perfect example of the problems with the bureaucratic system. Consider "spending" for example. Most of my local school's budget is mandated by the state, when there is a budget vote, three quarters of the budget is not really up for discussion, it's generally vote for the budget or loose either sports, the arts or both. In my town it's even more annoying because State regulations require the town to collect the school taxes, so they always look like the bad guys for the high school property taxes (determined by the school board based on those budgets which are mostly fixed expenses required by the state).
On the other hand, the problem with "for profit companies" is that to get the capital they need, they need investors. The "profit" in a for profit is supposed to go to the investors. Can you get people in "invest" in our children given that the "profit" is merely taking the money from the parents?
Totally ignored is the non profit school, which is still expensive since non profit does not mean your workers are all volunteers. Can this work? In some ways it can, especially in the long run as graduates get good jobs and start to look back at the institute that educated them. I've see this first hand with a Catholic High School where donations from alumni are what you might expect from a college, not a high school. Buildings are named after patrons, and so forth.
Even competition in public schools can be a good thing. The state recently put a number of local schools on the "bad" list, students from the bad list have the option to transfer to a nearby school not on the bad list. Everyone is up in arms, but hopefully it might encourage the bad schools to actually improve.
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