Quote:I fully support public unions.  You absolutely have a say in the negotiations.  You vote for the people who make the decisions.  Workers ought to have a right to collectively bargain.  Even public workers.  


This is a big part of why I'll never vote Libertarian again.  Their idea that almost everything needs to be privatized.  The private sector isn't going to make things better.  Competition doesn't make everything better.  If it did, we'd see much better internet services in the U.S. than we see now.  For our society to truly work, some things just can't be fully privatized.   Education is a big one.  It's too important, because it's about more than just making sure people can get a job.  I know we'll never agree on this issue, but that's exactly why I won't be a libertarian.  I can't budge on the issue of education.  It's too important to me.  Not because my wife is a teacher, or that I have kids in the public school system.  But because I want to live in a country where every student has a good opportunity to get an education instead of going to some for-profit school that's just looking out to make a quick buck from desperate parents.  


I agree that we spend too much money.  When I was a conservative, I was a conservative because I felt we needed to reign in spending.   But some of it is money well spent.  That's a big part of what moved me left.  I'm more than happy when my tax dollars are spent on something like education, police, or health care.  Not so happy when it's spent on corporate welfare, or getting into yet another expensive war.