I agree with you both. Yes we should expose the costs, even the hidden costs for welfare moms buying toilet paper!!!!
What I’m trying to expand on, though, ties in with the Stossell post about credit card fees/credit card protection act that costs us more.
In fact, it costs the lowest income people the most because they end up paying 500% interest rates on paycheck loans and at pawn shop loan sharks...
...AND THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND IT OR EVEN CARE.
Tell these people that toilet paper costs more because government education costs everyone eventually, and they’ll DEMAND that politicians subsidize toilet paper for them and raise taxes on the RICH!
I mean, look at home many supposedly conservative and fiscally rational freepers on the Stossell thread have their pitchforks out for the evil creditcard companies who simply responded rationally to irrational laws, and not the Dems who made things worse in the first place.
Again. I agree with your intent, to expose the costs of government education/anything. But what I think you’re overlooking is that it only works for people who are able to operate on the info. There’s a large amount of people in a bizarre world who DO NOT CARE how much things cost. They ONLY CARE that they are getting The View on the big screen TV.
Yeah, that's the part of new Dodd-Frank bill and the new "Consumer Protection" czar (initially, Elizabeth Warren) that they "embedded" into the Fed with their own budget so this office will be essentially unaccountable to Congress... and this "protection" will cost everybody, especially hard hit will be poorer "little people" this bill is supposedly meant to "protect" from "evil, greedy" credit card companies and "banksters".
...AND THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND IT OR EVEN CARE.
The people who will be most affected by this probably applauded it, they are "getting even" now, they won't understand why things like credit got worse for them, not better. Politicians will promise another "fix". You can't explain it to them, work on those you can affect.
Dodd-Frank and this "consumer protection" agency (Democratic party is basically organized as mafia, in "group protection" racket) should be dismantled before they do even more damage to the economy, chasing capital and investment opportunities out of the U.S.
I mean, look at home many supposedly conservative and fiscally rational freepers on the Stossell thread have their pitchforks out for the evil creditcard companies who simply responded rationally to irrational laws, and not the Dems who made things worse in the first place.
I haven't seen the thread or even knew of its existence, but I definitely noticed this anti-bank, anti-business, anti-all-rich tendency on FR recently and it is seriously disturbing (I am trying to do a small part to stop the spread of this phenomenon of ideological "joining hands" with socialists). It's a negative feedback loop, but to be so indiscriminate just because Obama is where he is and the mood is sour? Indiscriminate negativity was exactly how GOP lost presidential election to Clinton in 1996 - they were lashing out at everybody, so who would want to be their friend? With friends like these who needs enemies?
But what I think you’re overlooking is that it only works for people who are able to operate on the info.
Actually, in terms of education and the government's and unions' very generous salary, benefits and pension packages (which are bankrupting the cities, and the failures and indifference of people in government education are now so obvious, that it's not a thankless task as it might have been long ago.
Many people (not all, but a substantial number) are no longer looking at government as "free" and the ground is fertile for them to realize more and more that there is a high cost (and with deficits, a future cost) to their inferior and often unneeded, cumbersome "services" and that the government has become a "vampire class" that is feeding on the "bloody class'" tears, sweat and blood.
Same envy and jealousy formerly directed only toward "the rich" will and often does now turn against generously-compensated "public service workers" who constantly look for ways to raise "revenues" that fall more and more on "not rich". Keep reminding people of that and you'll get the "lever" long enough to "move" at least some parts of the system. It just has to be done intelligently, for a long term, not slash-and-burn style...
We don't have to lose our minds just because we are mad.