QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Tue 23rd August 2011, 8:32pm)
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Tue 23rd August 2011, 11:26pm)
NBC News â—¦ Education Nation
GUEST BLOG â—¦ The Case for School Vouchers â—¦ Patrick M. Byrne â—¦ 23 Aug 23, 2011
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Yeah, the “Everything Must Be A Lucrative Market†(EMBALM) mentality has been working out so great for society, let's spread it to some areas where it can really screw up something important.
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School vouchers are merely the GI bill applied to K12.
I dunno what your problem is. The government doesn't run its own hospitals, except for the VA. They give you a voucher on medicare so you can pick your own. Nor does the government doesn't run its own grocery stores: they give poor people EBT cards that work in any grocery store they choose. They are essentially food vouchers like the old food stamps.
The government doesn't provide housing for retirees. They send money and let retirees pick their own housing. That's a housing voucher.
Letting government actually run a program, vs. simply giving people targetted voucher money and letting them choose a provider, is a recipe for disaster. You should check out VA hospitals sometime. (IMG:
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And government housing projects. (IMG:
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