Thursday, January 21, 2010

You Want These People In Charge Of Your Healthcare?

Check this out, more than one third of Manhattan Public Schools have HAZARDOUS code violations with some unresolved for years. Check out one of the more egregious examples:

One school building in Harlem had 15 Class 1 or hazardous violations, some dating to May 2006, citing problems from blocked exit doors and poor ventilation to interior structural cracks “causing lateral movement throughout the entire building.”
So government inspectors can't seem to enforce some common sense rules on government schools, putting the lives of children at risk and seemingly not caring in the slightest (otherwise things would not go unfixed since 2006). Now I know some of the lefties out there will start screaming about the underfunded school systems, especially in cities. They should check out this report which shows that New York City spends $15,539 per pupil per year, the 13th highest rate in the nation. My bet is you could raise it to $20k per pupil per year and you wouldn't markedly improve the school system thanks to the bureaucratic waste, corruption and lack of incentives to actually do work that is inherent in a unionized government program.

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