Posted on 03/23/2010 10:36:41 AM PDT by RonnieFan
According to the Cato Institute the average per student cost of public K-12 education is $19,000 per student per year compared to $8,300 per private school student. We all know private schooling is better and it’s over 50% cheaper on average. Free sure is expensive.
With what we’re spending on “free” public education, we could not only send all kids to private school, we could buy premium health insurance for the uninsured and have billions left over, maybe trillions. But instead we’ll add expensive wasteful dollars to wasteful heath care dollars to have two less effective, more expensive systems.
OK - Lets have all the Freeper single payer education advocates come out to tell us how great their own public school is.
I will repeat myself - if you are an advocate of single payer education, you are a liberal.
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I am not advocating gov’t schools but pointing out that there’s enough waste in public schools to pay for obamacare. Not that such should be done. That more money is wasted in public education than will ever be wasted in heath care. Why believe Obamacare will be undone when we can’t even get vouchers and there’s no real protest or tea party for that waste or the indoctrination of our own kids. Like with education, the true costs will be hidden and people will accept it as the way it is.
I have to agree with your pessimism. Anyone who takes even a shallow look at how Social Security works will see that it is an unsustainable rip-off Ponzi scheme. If the money that was taken from us were instead put into anything that yields even modest compound interest, we’d all be able to enjoy very comfortable retirements from the gains.
And yet, SSI is politically impossible to remove — or even curtail. Remember the howls when Bush proposed allowing us to opt for taking a single-digit percentage and investing we see fit? That proposal sank like a lead balloon.
The Democrats are quite justified in being confident that once an entitlement program is enacted, it is never repealed. Instead it is amended with more piled-on bureaucracy and legislation.
Heck, not even that.
I charge about 20 dollars an hour.
I can teach a student a full semester on about 400 dollars, and that’s just one course. For say 5 courses, I could do it for 2k.
For a full year, it would cost me about 4k to educate a student, and all I’d need is a white board and some markers.
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