And anything the gov’t manages turns into a POS. I know that. Education is a prime example. Even at the state level, gov’t can seem to educate people with 12 straight years of school. Still have to go to remedial classes in college.
But I am not sure the market can fix all problems. Japan used to have this thing about growing their own rice. Economically the land was probably more productive building SONY plants on it. The cost differential would have paid for a lot of rice. But if you are an island nation, don’t you need to be able to grow your own food or risk starvation?
I thought a lot of GMs production was moved out of Michigan. I do think the unions there killed the golden goose. That and some crappy over-priced products that could not match Toyota’s. GM was just too big for anybody to run right.
parsy, who doesn’t know it all about this stuff.
On education, my experience is that you can lead horses to water, but can’t make them drink.
I’ve seen this evidenced in my military life, where D students become A students because Uncle Sam decided to put a boot up their ass for the first time in their lives.
Education tends to work on kids who have some semblance of parenting. Where there’s no parenting, education tends to be a hit-or-miss proposition.
Just my observation. I’m public school educated, from HS through college. Spent the first 8 years in Catholic School. No contest - public school was better in almost every respect.
In fact, you could hand me 8 years at Harvard at no charge to me, and I’d take a military academy education every time. Same with the better private schools, at least in my area.