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Old 05-06-2013, 04:45 PM   #85
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Originally Posted by edslunch View Post
I have trouble with 'let the market decide' and 'governments need to operate like businesses' when it comes to government services. Governments are not businesses. As you acknowledged there is no real 'market' when it comes to teachers for example. If education was completely privatized and schools were in competition for students and therefore for teachers then this would apply but that's not in the public interest IMHO.
Nobody said education should be privatized. I'm just saying the teachers union needs to find another way to operate besides the cutthroat 'get what we can even if it comes at expense of the students' approach.
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