Let's Keep Rewarding Failure

Why is it we keep throwing money at failing institutions and ideas?

The public school system is one of the biggest failures of this nation. Yet year after year we keep throwing more and more money into it. American students are near the bottom in nearly every standardized testing category by the end of secondary (high) school when compared to other industrialized nations.

The "Stimulus" program is another example of this. Monies are directed toward failing areas and programs. In other words, we are rewarding failure. Hello? Aren't you supposed to reward success?

Do you reward a child that doesn't clean his room? Or do you punish him? Do you reward someone for murdering a person? (Well, yes liberals think we should reward murderers... it's why they give them weekend furloughs from prison and gigantic book deals). We continue to reward failure even as we continue to see the results of rewarding failure to be... you got it. More failure!

If a business, industry, or town/area fails, it's for a reason. It's because policies and decisions made were poor and the results are showing. Propping up such business/industry (bailouts), or areas ("stimulus") just exacerbates the problem. If somebody knows that every time they get into trouble financially even if it's their fault, the government will come rescue them, what incentive is there to actually make good decisions and be responsible? The answer is simple: there isn't any. And it's why the Clinton bailouts of the savings and loans in the 90s, and the Bush/Obama bailouts of the financial industry and car industry of the last two years will encourage companies to continue to make lousy business decisions because they can be confident that the federal government will be there to save them at the expense of our tax dollars.

Until we get back to the tried and true method of rewarding success and re-introducing things such as competition and responsibility into all of these systems including schools, we will continue to see the failures pile up, the the costs to us as taxpayers continue to soar.

It's just common sense. And it's why people who have common sense and an actual brain they are able to use wonder if this really is some kind of conspiracy to make people unable to fend for themselves and totally dependent on the government for every aspect of their lives.