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Re:David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a... by anoncowherd on Sunday December 08, 2013 @01:35PM (#6870679)
>> In Sweden private for profit schools and schools run by the municipalities compete with each other. All of them are funded by the tax payers and they get a certain amount of money for every student.

How the hell can a school be "private", while being funded by taxpayers?

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Re:David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a... by dobbsbob on Sunday December 08, 2013 @02:48PM (#6871051)
They call these "PPP" public private partnerships. What happens is cronies of the ruling party are given money to avoid risk and get to run the business extracting all profits for themselves. The taxpayer is told hey this would cost 10x as much if we ran it.
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Re:David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a... by anoncowherd on Monday December 09, 2013 @03:18AM (#6873337)
Yep, bullshit as usual.
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Re:David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a... by Fomite on Sunday December 08, 2013 @02:35PM (#6871001)
The privatization of rewards while the public bears the risk is a pretty well established business model these days.
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Re:David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a... by anoncowherd on Monday December 09, 2013 @03:18AM (#6873336)
Right. I wasn't actually confused about what's going on, just wanted to point out it doesn't make sense :p
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