Yeah, That Walmart

James Fisher

I was recently debating public schools vs privatizing the education system. (Of course I'm for a free market education and not public)

When the other person said to me-

"Yeah, that's exactly what we need, a Walmart owning and operating all the schools"

He said this as if it should be self evident that Walmart is a bad thing for society?

 

So I said- you mean the Walmart that has made almost everything we buy less expensive? Making it possible for the poorest among us to own 60" LCD HD TV's and $20 phones with calling plans almost free and all sorts of wonderful things?

That Walmart?

The one that took minimum wage jobs with no benefits away from Bradlees and K Mart and turned them into $11.00 per hour jobs with health insurance and 401 K programs?

The Walmart that personally made me richer by saving me tons of money as well as time because I can do my food shopping and everything else at the same time?

That Walmart?

How awful!

Then he responded with the usual line about buying from the Chinese etc etc...

Because apparently its Walmarts fault that the Chinese produce products less expensive than Americans and regardless of this economic fact Walmart should buy more expensive products and let another business kick its ass.

Perhaps the answer to that problem is for the state to stop murdering its businesses to death through regulation and taxes and we could once again outcompete the Chinese.

I'm all for Walmart education. Truth is that would be very unlikely, unless of course a business figured out how to give us far better education so we all decided to send our kids there.

The free market works.

Join the revolution!

How Much For Your Security

James Fisher

What if the good citizens of Massachusetts hire a security firm to prevent terrorist attacks in Boston?

We all got together and chipped in equal money and paid the best private security firm we could find?

Then the bombing in Boston happens!

What would we good citizens do?

We would likely fire them, or at least judge their performance accordingly and take the best plan going forward.

Maybe that means hire a different firm? Maybe we demand a refund due to failure?
Maybe we review their techniques and find out why the failure happened?

What we would not do is instantly give them a raise and more power to interrupt our lives.

Yet this is exactly how government services work.

When they fail, unlike a private market business, their failure means they didn't have enough of our money. They didn't have enough power and right to invade our privacy and civil rights.

So they must now get more powerful, invade more civil rights, take more of our money.

This is the difference between getting your services from the state or the market.

Where the market service must serve you to your exact desire or you shit can them, the state reserved the right to fail in serving you and tell you it's your fault for not giving them enough power and money!