Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Congressman Confused About Competition
Representative Kucinich of Ohio is concerned about Giant Eagle buying 18 Tops Markets in the Cleveland area. He worries that more Giant Eagle stores will bring higher prices, presumably because of reduced competition in the market area. Interesting that the Congressman finds competition useful in the private sector in holding down prices and if he would check, it also creates better products and service at the same time.
Meanwhile, the Congressman is an avowed and ardent opponent of education vouchers. On his website he demeans vouchers in the strongest possible terms and states that he consistently votes against them because they threaten the public school system. If he would just apply the lessons he has learned about the benefits of private competition to education, he might come down off his ridiculous high horse concerning vouchers. As the former mayor of Cleveland, he must be aware of the absolutely dreadful public education system in that city.
No amount of taxpayer money will fix those schools. It has been tried and failed over and over there and in other cities. But rather than being willing to acknowledge that competition might help the schools get better, he decries vouchers as undermining public education. But that is the way with liberals, inconsistency of argument and rationale are not required or expected.
If the Congressman is truly interested in the well being of Ohio’s children as he purports to be, then he should be willing to support a system of vouchers that has been proven to work in countries around the world as well as in the US. Given how bad Cleveland’s schools are any move in a positive direction should be welcome. Of course, there is the teachers union and its support to worry about. What are the lives of children compared to that?
Meanwhile, the Congressman is an avowed and ardent opponent of education vouchers. On his website he demeans vouchers in the strongest possible terms and states that he consistently votes against them because they threaten the public school system. If he would just apply the lessons he has learned about the benefits of private competition to education, he might come down off his ridiculous high horse concerning vouchers. As the former mayor of Cleveland, he must be aware of the absolutely dreadful public education system in that city.
No amount of taxpayer money will fix those schools. It has been tried and failed over and over there and in other cities. But rather than being willing to acknowledge that competition might help the schools get better, he decries vouchers as undermining public education. But that is the way with liberals, inconsistency of argument and rationale are not required or expected.
If the Congressman is truly interested in the well being of Ohio’s children as he purports to be, then he should be willing to support a system of vouchers that has been proven to work in countries around the world as well as in the US. Given how bad Cleveland’s schools are any move in a positive direction should be welcome. Of course, there is the teachers union and its support to worry about. What are the lives of children compared to that?
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The Cleveland public school district does in fact have a voucher program--or at least did have one--which provided the test case for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide in 2002 (if memory serves) that educational vouchers do not violate the constitutional separation of church and state. If I recall correctly, the district had come under state control.
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