JoeB131
Diamond Member
Let's look at schools before we had free public education in this country. The wealthy could afford to educate their children while the poor couldn't even teach their kids to read and write. Education is the great equalizer in this country. A free public school education where poor kids receive the same education as wealthy kids is what made this country great
But that has never really been the case. It isn't the case today.
If you want a good education, you go to a parochial school, a suburban school, a charter school or a private school.
If you go to an Urban Public School, you'll get a diploma, but you might not be able to read it.
Like I said, I went to Catholic Schools, and I got to go along side the spawn of all the Democratic Politicians in Chicago. As much as Democrats love Public Education, they'd never expose their own children to it.
Healthcare in this country is now provided primarily by employers who buy from private insurance companies. Both are primarily concerned with their own profits rather than the health of the worker
True enough.
But how did we get there?
We got there because the government insisted on freezing wages during WWII, and limiting the ability of workers to change jobs to get higher paychecks. So in order to retain and attract top talent, employers started offering health insurance as a benefit. Now that system is broken because in an aging population, health inflation running three times normal inflation, and labor being the one cost employers can most easily control, we have a lot of pressure on a system that can't keep up.