Society has always been segregated and always will be. I don't mean by race or any bullshit like that, but by social standing. People will surround themselves with simular people, the rich with the rich and the poor with the poor. Educated with the educated, ignorant with the ignorant. Socially people tend to want to associate with people of simular standing because those of any standing tend to have a jelous streak towards those of higher standing.
It is impossible to balance the education system of the any city, state, or nation, let alone the world. Wealthy districts tend to have more money than poor districts from taxes(I wonder why), even if you were to say that every school district gets the same amount of tax money per student it would be unbalanced. Those from wealthy districts would have more sucessful fund raisers and have larger private local donations(once again I wonder why). There is more money in those areas so more gets to the schools. Schools with more money get to pay their teachers more. Paying your teachers more means you get to be more picky and hire more qualified teachers. Also these areas tend to be safer, and poor districts not so much so. Even if the pay were the same in the wealthy area as the poor area, a teacher would rather work in the wealthy area because the conditions are better and it's in a safer neighborhood. Private schools don't really help or hurt the situation, they just make it more obvious to people.
A relatively small portion of people on welfare are like
>>30 describes. They are there, and I have met them, but estimatedly they are like 15% of the people on welfare at any one time tops. The average ammount of time spent on welfare is actually about 6 months. Meaning if you actually do the math, welfare has a tunover rate of every six months or twice a year, meaning annualy the persentage of people that were on welfare abusing it is acually 7.5%. This is obviously doesn't make the situation good, it just puts it in better prospective. My suggestion for getting rid of that situataion is actually fairly system. Government menial jobs such as post office, garbage pickup, government office janitorial, ect. should just stop hiring outside welfare and hire people on welfare, for a salary exactly equal to what they are getting. If they want more money they can get another job, if they screw up and loose the job they loose all benifits. This would cause a major relief of the system and should include a reduction in what taxes are needed to sustain the system.
Socialized health care is really a bad idea. Actually allowing the governemtn to socialize much of anything is a bad idea. primarially because it gives the government control over that aspect of people lives. Nothing the government provides is "free" it is all paid for by taxes. The federal is already in deep debt as it is, and this is primarially from social programs and government skimming of Social security as it is. Proving that they can't be trusted with that kind of money to begin with, also proving they are ineffective at running such an enormous operation iffeciently. And even if they could, I don't trust the government with my health.
Hey, why only socialize healthcare, I mean there are other things that come first. some things you need every day and if you don't get enough you won't live long enough to need medical attention. I mean of course food. Why not socialize the food industry as well? Hell then the government could mandate that all food has to be healthy and that everyone have a nice healthy diet. And that would greatly reduce the cost of socialized healthcare, so it would be a win-win situation. Hell if you are going to socialize various necessities of life you might as well go all the way, I mean why go half-assed when you can take over my entire way of life.
Then there is the fact that you are taking my money without telling me, and giving it to someone else. I don't smoke, so why should I pay for the healthcare of someone that does. I have asthsma, why should someone else have to pay for that. I don't want them to illegalize smoking, that other person has every right to smoke, and whether the do or don't, they shouldn't pay for my asthsma that i was born with, and I shouldn't pay for their choice. I don't even want them to ban smoking in public places(government buildings I am alright with banning it in i guess, but not outside the doors of said building), and definately not banning it in sombodys private buisness. And once again, i have asthsma and I hate the smell of cigarettes, I just don't think it's my job to tell you what to do outside in the open air and what your customers can do in your private business. Or what anyone can do if they fucking want too.
How can you say that private chairities do or don't work when they have never been effectively tried. I mean logically just the fact that people in our nation have so much fewer social taxes than in Europe and such a higher percentage of private charity donations can lead you to a logical conclusion, but really private charity has never been effectively tried. When you tax more money away from someone they have less money to donate to charity, which makes you tax more to make up for it, which gives them even less money to give, ect. tax breaks are given on charitable donations, but not nearly to the point that they could be. On the other side, I can't think of many charities that I trust with my money. I mean really when I have extra money to give I am more likely to give it directly to someone, or buy food to donate to a food bank or something, rather than trust any big charity. The are beurocatically choked and self promoting whores. Hell the last charity that I actually had a lot of respect for was the one that took the money to give terminally ill children a wish(I forgot the name, but it still technically exists), then PeTA got pissed because they gave some kid his wish to go hunting, and now they have a list of "politially correct" wishes that the DYING CHILD can ask for. but I rant again. I guess the point is that the government needs to lay off of me on how I spend my money and Private charities need to get better at serving those they are supposed to be helping.