The Incomplete Cynic

whataboutateakettle:

If the trade is an exchange between my tax dollars and safe and efficient roads, and cleaner air and the certainty of being able to walk into any clinic or hospital and know that I will get treated regardless of how much money I have in my wallet at the time and the guarantee that my kids can go to any school and get an equal, unbiased, and motivated education, then I will make that trade every fucking time. 

I’m trying to figure out what planet offers this trade…it certainly isn’t this one. There are plenty of countries with socialized medicine, and if you walk into a clinic with a gash on your arm or an ear infection, I’m sure you’ll get treated in record time. Unfortunately, if you show up with a torn rotator cuff or acute appendicitis, you might get put on an 18-month waiting list for surgery. And your kids can’t go to “any school”, they can go to the school the state assigns them to (unless they’re fortunate to have charter school options, but a lot of people think those shouldn’t be available). And they get the education offered there. No amount of money is going to make that education good, unbiased, or motivated.