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...which would make education even more inaccessible to America's growing class of working poor and likely ensure that their children will NEVER get out of poverty and potentially live a worse life then their parents. Even many middle class families will have troubles affording it as the costs for educating one student will skyrocket (same reason why Americans pay big $$$ for healthcare) as logically they will seek a huge profit out of it. If you mean by using private contractors working for the government then that will mean taxes will have to be raised or a much more basic (can it really be any more basic?) system. Also these companies will emphasize skills related directly to the marketplace and would remove ones that aren't. The government should handle education, but the problem with the US is that the US spends too little on education and works too little at improving it which is part of the reason why America is in a decline. How many developed nations have a privatized education system?

Except all this led to was infantacide, mothers were killing their children if they were females because females can't support a family. Would you look forward to that in our future? To be fair this is because of cultural reasons since in China it is preferred to have a son as they can take care of you when you are older (which is BS but hey its a product of the culture what do you expect).

"I'm worried that the world is sinking into statism, especially with election of Obama and his socialist policies. (Not a republican: just pointing that out)" Obama isn't socialist. Some of the things he wanted to implement were left of center but overall he is hardly socialist. "Statism is any theory that some men have the power to rule over and initiate force on other men. So, any theory but capitalism in the poll is statism, or at least some elements of statism." Anarchy, Communism (in its purest form) and possible some forms of Socialism have no centralized government/power structures therefore it cannot be a form of statism. "I say that if you love life, reason and mankind, and you believe reality is objective, you have no choice but to pick capitalism. Capitalism is the only system where initiating force is banned from all human relationships and all property is privately owned. The only organization that is legally allowed to use force is the government and they can only use it in retaliation. (e.g. punishing murders since they initiated force against other men by killing them. Remember: the initiation of force is banned, even by the government!)" Capitalism is probably one of the sickest and most distorted economic philosophies. At least in its current manifestations like in the USA and China. Essentially what happens in Capitalism is that wealth becomes concentrated in the hands of a few which liberally use that wealth to corrupt government institutions and its members in order to advance their own agenda. If it was up to capitalism on how much you should work and earn we would be living in 19th century working conditions and our standards would fall. It gives people the illusion that they have a change at becoming super wealthy if they work hard enough (some do, but the vast majority don't). They might as well play the lottery. Many Americans are angry that jobs are being "exported" to countries like China. Obviously they don't love life and reason as clearly they are going against Capitalism. These corporations that are moving their jobs to China are only doing so to reduce costs and (theoretically) lower costs for you! The consumer! Now its more affordable and since those corporations were competitive in the marketplace they now have a advantage over their competition. The system works (even if sometimes you have to use child labor or pay cents to your workers)! Regarding the murder lets think about that for a second. Today all we do for when someone murders another is punish them. This ultimately doesn't solve the problem, it just barely mitigates. Sure that particular person probably won't be able to commit a crime (outside of prison), but that doesn't prevent other people from doing it. Lets (for sake of argument) assume this was a gang related incident and the persons involved belong to rival gangs. Lets try to figure out why are they in a organization that is so counterproductive to society. If you look close enough you will find various push/pull factors that are directly related to the socioeconomic condition and what they see as a way to better themselves (financially). Of course there are other factors like friends or being pressed to join, but ultimately they join because of their poverty. Would they still join if they had a middleclass lifestyle? Another question is how accessible is it for them to reach such a lifestyle? Most crime is in the end related to money. This is a byproduct of our current capitalist system.