Saturday, February 26, 2011
Quote of the Day - Education
"[A]ny provider that commands 90 percent of the market -- whether we're talking about software, phone service, or heating oil -- is, by definition, a monopoly. Our government employs thousands of bureaucrats to track down and break up monopolies on the grounds that monopolies stifle competition and thereby produce bad products at high prices. Doesn't it strike anyone as strange that the same government protects its own monopoly in education? And stranger still, that nearly everyone accepts this state of affairs as normal -- as something that has always been and must always be? ... [C]ompetition forces public schools into making long-overdue repairs. And it offers poor parents the choices they desperately desire." ~ Jennifer A. Grossman
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Maggie,
Perhaps the education system has been placed in the same category as the Postal Service; as a business plan that can only be poorly executed on a grand scale when fully under the control of the government.
Our government employs thousands of bureaucrats to track down and break up monopolies...
Which might be true. If so, these bureaucrats are a perfect example of government efficacy - just look around at the monopolies that exist today.
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