There’s nothing the government does, so I’m told,
That the free market doesn’t do better
So now with the government shutting its doors
And the market cut loose from its fetter
There is nothing to stop it from jumping right in—
Taking over, and doing things right—
Bureaucracy stood in its way until now,
But with government down, now it might!
So the kids who are staying at home for a bit
Cos the money was cut from Head Start?
The market should see an investment to make…
But they don’t. So the world falls apart.
The Digital Cuttlefish
Since the music plays so briefly... Can you blame me if I dance?
I wish people would just take basic micro and macro econ, and then we’d understand why there’s no real incentive for the market to actually *do* certain things.
And this makes me so sad.
That’s ridiculous motivated reasoning. Business needs certainty before investment. The only thing certain is that government will soon resume operation, so why would a business invest in this short-term gap? They would have to be mad. You’re making up ridiculous arguments to fit your politics.
Free markets aren’t always good, but neither are your arguments.
Not fair. The market cannot invest
On such short notice and stopgap at best
And with no certain future in sight.
Guvment’s monopoly whip
And religion’s curriculum grip
Have left public schooling a blight.
The market could set this a-right,
But–what were you thinking–not overnight.
“Short notice”? “overnight”? Head Start has been around since 1965 – any private company who thought they could do it better could have put up a competitor program at any time, confident in their belief that having a better product would mean that people would go to them instead of to the government one. And yet, nobody has, not at any point in the last 48 years.
I’ve been in the daycare business. Carlie is the one seeing what I am talking about–for-profit daycares have a different clientele than my daycare did–interested, as you all note, in a short term bottom line. A long term investment that allows poor young parents to go to college, or to get job training? Not so much. And of course I know better than to expect an overnight growth of a brand new industry… my point, as Carlie’s, is that there has been plenty of time for a private safety net, but no incentive. It, as you note, is simply not something the free market does well. After all, it’s not like this was a social need that has been unrecognized.
Oh, wow. Billionaire couple donates 10 million dollars to the Head Start programs in danger due to the government shutdown.