Right Wing Think Tanks
I understand that the far right wing, with the aid of its think tanks, wants to inflict as much damage as possible to the institutions that keep us healthy, globally competitive, and out of poverty. What I don’t understand is why. Who, regardless of how much money one has, wants to live in a world of ignorance, pollution, and destitution?
Want an eye-opener? Google, as I just did, “cato institute public education.”
Craig,
Like most of the politically left, you seem to feel adherence ideological dogma substitutes for objective thinking or analysis.
I glad you read (or misread) the debates provoking research produced by the Cato Institute and similar institutions.
The Cato Institute questions the effectiveness of US publicly funded education. Far from “inflicting as much damage as possible to public education”, the Cato Institute seeks to carefully analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of the existing system in order to improve the education of American children.
Now considering you are constantly complaining at the standard of US education, it seems odd that you oppose this objective ?
What’s sad is you still join with your fellow socialists who still dream of a fairy godfather(person) in the form of a Big Spending, Big Government creating increasing numbers of problems while solving nothing !
Your answer to unemployment and poverty, is to create more “social workers” and highly paid bureaucrats to administer social welfare programs paid for by an increasingly smaller number of productive workers whose jobs are either being exported or disappearing under the burden of an uncompetitive tax regime.
Cato, Like American Enterprise would argue it’s better to create meaningful employment to alleviate poverty, thereby relieving a great deal of the causes of social disharmony, and ending the need for “social workers ” and bureaucrats. The resultant saving to the taxpayer allows for further economic growth and allows the US to once again become competitive.
The Trump administration has proved successful in bringing back meaningful employment to working class Americans while creating an economic revival.
At this rate the administration’s main problem will be finding employment for all those publicly funded, highly educated, “social workers”, bureaucrats, and assorted “nanny state” hangers-on, whose reason for existence would have disappeared !
High levels of blue collar employment has other benefits which further ease the burden on the taxpayer. The number of single parent families diminishes and school attendance increases. Crime, especially among the underprivileged, decreases and the tax base increases, especially at a local level.
Increased economic activity enhances civic pride and community enterprise, providing a tax base for greater civic amenities while decreasing corruption.
Craig, even in once “show piece’ nations with Social Democratic societies like Sweden (a nation you constantly admire) the strain of ideology over objectivity, is beginning to reveal ugly divisions.
The Social Democratic party received only 28.4% in the recent election,(its lowest score for a century) yet Stefan Löfven the incumbent prime minister steadfastly refuses to resign as parliament descends into chaos and constitutional crisis.
The rapid growth of the rightist Sweden Democratic Party and corresponding collapse of the Green Party reflects a growing rejection of generations of failed policies.
It’s honestly terrible that people think that we don’t need education or healthcare. It’s like they’re trying to kill off the lower and middle classes. What other reason could they have?1