Public Schools and Libraries: The Failure of Socialism

This video is about the inefficiency of socialism to provide so-called "public services."

The bloated, wasteful, government-run education system is a blood-sucking leech on the American tax-payer. It is run by a group of bureaucrats, whom I call the "Edu-stapo." The members of the Edu-stapo make six-figure salaries and take frequent vacations to Europe and Cancun at the expense of honest, hard-working people. The education bureaucracy and their allies in the government spend all kinds of tax-payer money on ridiculous education programs.

And where has this gotten us? The education system in the United States is complete horseshit.

This can all be solved through market incentives. Schools and colleges should be run like any capitalist firm without state interference.

Socialism has failed in every other regard in American society.

Bleeding-heart liberal corporatists and socialist Marxists will point to things like the public library to prove their point. What many of them do not realize is that public libraries are bloated and inefficient. Library workers are mean, crude, nasty, and devilish individuals. Once a librarian yelled at me and my friend for talking too loud. If she were not protected by her union and the state bureaucracy, there would actually be competition and she would have been fired for failing to do her job in an efficient, profit generating manner. In an anarcho-capitalist society, such an incident would have likely not occurred.

Another time I had to pay a fee for an overdue book. This was a pure assault on my individualism. Why should I have to pay extra just because I didn't return the book on time?

Public libraries and schools should be shut down. New private, capitalist libraries and schools should be built through neo-Lockean homesteading. This would involve no state coercion.

When talking about the state bureaucracy one cannot overlook the role of labor unions. While no libertarian opposes the right to freely associate, trade unions can grow to be too powerful and end up being a threat to individual freedom. Many of them even have used violence and resemble governments. Unions should be allowed, but they should not be encouraged to demand higher wages. Wages should be determined by market forces alone. Every measure should be taken to convince workers that unions are not in their interest.

Friends, onward we march clad in black and gold. The anarcho-capitalist movement is only getting bigger and stronger. We are pouring into the streets throughout the nation. We are establishing gray markets and beginning to challenge the corporatist order. Let the corporatist state tremble at the thought of an anarchist uprising!

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[Denverlibertarion]

If anyone wants to know how public schools are useful, google thomas jefferson highschool and Columbine High school.

[CapitalismIsLiberty]

@Denverlibertarion amen, patriot! the government caused columbine! if columbine were run as a for-profit firm, then the capitalist would realize that psychopathic students would hurt business. socialism caused the columbine shooting plain and simple.

[OgallalaKnowhow]

@nhstategop

I have no doubt that some parents manage to educate their children from home far better than their local schools could. The variation of public education quality is huge due to USA's very regressive tax code that keeps municipal taxes self-contained, almost guaranteeing the development of slum neighbourhoods.

Look at what conservatism has brought America... Reagonomics, supply-side theory, its been a failure. There is much greater stability with Keynesianism - flawed as it may be.

[catholicguy20]

as for the schools i'm far more sympathetic to that idea with two major reservations. One, all minors have the right to an education and therefore should be given an education stipend equal to the estimated cost of their schooling for the year. Two, the state should provide an institution that will promise to except all students for nothing more than the agreed upon stipend.

[catholicguy20]

wait, you think that you shouldn't have to pay extra for not returning books on time. You do realize that EVERY single rental service is going to charge you for keeping something longer than you agreed to, as they should because you are depriving them of their resources.

[Vict0r1984]

Corruption exists within state-controlled institutions of course, but the huge advantage of free services is never granted by private enterprises, while state-owned institutions offer it!

[Vict0r1984]

The lack of state-owned education means no education at all for more than 50% of the children, since parents couldn't afford private schools... In the 19th century you had to pay for schooling and the world was bursting with illiteracy, and measures like socialist nationalizations of the system (as the one of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917) brought much more education and were proven better systems than capitalist schooling, which denied the people even the right of absorbing knowledge...

[OgallalaKnowhow]

@OgallalaKnowhow

.... that allowed for Finance to recklessly expand credit.

A great documentary on the beginnings of these sorry events in the late 1980s with so-called "junk bonds" is the third episode of Adam Curtis' excellent Mayfair Set series.

You can find it on youtube by searching: EP3 #1-Mayfair Set.mp4

[OgallalaKnowhow]

@fringeelements

The Keynesianism I am referring to is what he called "the socialization of credit" –– democratic governments should create and regulate the quantity of credit-money in the economy to avoid inflation or deflation. Giving Finance the power to create credit through unregulated "shadow banking" and so-called 'near-monies' is what leads to the inflation of assets (see housing bubble) and deflation of the real economy – less purchasing power as income is tied up in FIRE (parasites)

[OgallalaKnowhow]

@fringeelements

Reagan cut taxes and expanded government spending –– spending more money into the real economy. The phrase "Reagonomics" refers to that administrations slashing of the New Deal banking reforms (primarily Glass-Steagall Act) that allowed Finance (aka rentiers, or parasites – see Michael Hudson) which is what allowed for the reckless (i.e., uncontrolled) "expansion of credit" of the past 30 years in the form of securities, collateralized debt obligations and the rest of it.

[CapitalismIsLiberty]

@fringeelements lol Reagan was a retard. He was totally against the free market! I think you should unblock me because we agree on so much.

[fringeelements]

Reagan expanded gov't. There is no 10-year period since 1930 that gov't shrank. Keynesianism is what is being pursued now. Free market USA is a fairy tale.

When the fed talks about the multiplier and the beneficial nature of expanding credit, that's keynesian mysticism. Reagan's "free market" was talk. Tax rates shrank, but that doesn't matter if spending is kept up because the tax will then just manifest in inflation. In effect, both taxes and spending were increased under Reagan.

[antonyneal]

the voice is just to annoying