Glorious beams just hit different on one of these

Stu: "beddy-bye time for this boy!"

The sun: "uhh, did ya miss me?" 🤣🤣🤣

Preventing changes that would improve it. Is the government inefficient? Of course it is. But it's because decades of policy choices made it that way. Until we grapple with that fact, government will continue to get worse, and those who need it most will suffer.

Inefficient *because* of their actions. Government is good. Taxes are good. Social safety nets are both morally and financially good. But this is the point: proponents of small government actively make the government worse, and then they are rewarded, at least optically, by

Creation, to advocate for smaller government, less taxation, and fewer services. This, in turn, creates hostility toward government--but that is by design. Highlighting government inefficiency is frequently a platform on which elected officials run--but the government is

Half of the people in our country believe government is the enemy; it's not. This idea, too, is cyclical. Legislators slash budgets, cut taxes, reduce government expenditures, and decimate the social safety--and then they use the inefficiency of government, which is of their own

Workers, therapists, nurses, and other public employees, shape the fabric of society and build the next generation.

Education is the silver bullet. It's the foundational block on which the social determinants of health is built. Our schools should be cathedrals. Our teachers and support staff should make more than NBA players. They, along with other poorly compensated professions like social

In a nutshell, public schools are worse because of private schools.

Schools in favor of private schools; public schools receive less in funding because of the per-pupil model; school conditions suffer; and parents use poor performance or run-down facilities to justify moving to private schools.

Or lack the necessary support (like inattentive parents; lack of parental figures; suffering from cognitive or intellectual disabilities; or those who lack resources) to succeed. The problem with the decline in public schools is cyclical: parents pull their kids out of public

The fundamental role of the government should be to provide services for its people--whether this be through public-run services, regulators who are experts in their field being the ones to provide guidance on institutions, or providing equity for those who are underprivileged

Performance and lower graduation rates than their public school counterparts. Further, private schools in Michigan are not covered by our state's Freedom of Information Act, and they are not required to be transparent with their financials.

With them. The problems with privatization are not specific to the criminal justice system, though. For instance, in my state of Michigan, of the more than 300 private schools, nearly 85% are run by for-profit entities. These schools, in perpetuity, have lower academic

Prisons also have fewer methods of legal protections. However, even public prisons routinely contract with for-profit entities for things like food and healthcare. Though these private companies routinely and consistently are found to violate their duties, we continue to contract

Those they perceive as bad people by virtue of them being in prison. Though only about 8% of prisons in the US are run entirely by private entities, those prisons systematically decimate those within their four walls. Inmates in private

Because 1) there is such little oversight; 2) prisoners have very few ways to redress problems; 3) it is difficult for those who are incarcerated to communicate with the public; and 4) a large percentage of our population is either apathetic, or actively hostile, toward