Posted on 06/27/2009 12:50:09 PM PDT by SampleMan
Liberal thought has always suffered from a lack of logical consistency.
Over the last 40 years, we have been told that the panacea to improving education is to decrease the number of students per teacher AND to increase teacher wages.
Now we are told that the panacea to improving health care is increasing the number of patients per doctor AND decreasing reimbursement to providers.
The point here is not that liberals suffer from a lack of consistency, it is to point this out as a tool to turn on liberals or "independents" that we interface with every day.
I think this could be a very useful approach, as many liberals have been so engrained with their own formula on education. Although most liberals are know that they are inconsistent, they hate acknowledging it.
I suppose the solution to this is to do what you can to stay healthy and not get sick, or you will be in real trouble.
Good points.
The argument for paying teachers more is that paying teachers more will result in more talented (better) teachers.
I guess the point of paying doctor’s less is to get less talented (worse) doctors?
Of course, I’ve always liked to counter the argument of better pay, better teachers by asking “What are you going to do with the bad teachers you have now”? This leaves your typical NEA/liberal with several bad options.
They can deny that the current teachers are ‘bad’. One responds with “Well, you mean your current teachers are not doing as good a job as they can? Why should you reward a bad job with better pay?”
They can explain that paying them more will give them more of an incentive to be better teachers. And, one responds with “Oh, you support performance based pay for teachers?”
I guess one could modify this approach by posing this question. “Why would reducing a doctor’s pay produce a better doctor for you and your family?”
But as it’s been pointed out, the liberal elites who push this, don’t believe that paying less to your doctor will affect the kind of care their doctor provides. They just want to cut the pay your doctor gets.
And the twist is that doctor pay IS based on performance.
Another inconsistency is “Big Business”.
Well...Why are they so sanguine about “Big Education”?
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