Competition keeps the NBS functioning effectively just as competition would help the public schools.

What happens when the law forbids a company from firing an employee without a formal meeting, but a court has forbidden the employee from meeting with the company?

Air bag rules saved fewer than one tenth the lives they claimed they would save and killed people to boot.

Hillary is right in pointing out that most parents could use some help, but it doesn't take a village. It especially doesn't take a village of government-funded social workers, most of whom are either not yet married or divorced.

Public education has gotten rid of the consequences of failure for both teachers and students, so of course very little education takes place.

Crackpots are thick on the ground and we can't fund them all. How do we decide which upcoming genius/crackpot to fund? Einstein didn't have any peers; he would never have passed "peer review."

It's possible that nobody will ever be able to build anything of significance again.

Government ought to be able to help the economy - assuming that politicians want the economy to grow and assuming that the government is able to do what the politicians promise.

We don't disparage the motives of politicians, they have the same motives we do. We don't distrust the motives of bureaucrats, we trust them all too well.

We gripe about bias in the mainstream media because freedom of the press is only meaningful if you happen to own a press, but enough people have presses to keep politicians on their toes.