Why don't we have publicly funded and operated auto repair?

It's a need. Everyone uses it. It's in the best interests of the nation that roads are safe and people drive cars that don't cause a hazard. We publicly fund road repair, why not autos?

In fact, why don't we have all auto repair shops and dealerships run by governmental agencies. We could hire public shop superintendents who would be in charge of all the auto repair agencies in a given city or area. Then we should have principals who manage each shop. They would be public employees.

Every mechanic, partsman, car washer, desk clerk would be employed by a governmental agency. They would only be responsible to the administration. If you had a complaint about your car repair quality, you took it up with the administration. But, they know better than you. They have degrees in car repair and even if your car doesn't work right, it will work about as well as any other car on the road. This would slow traffic.

The administration would instruct every person in the area where they can take their car for repair. Even if the repair shop down the street seems to do a better job, you must only take your car where you are told. Nowhere else.

Oh, your care repair is "Free". Proponents would say, there would be no car repair if we didn't have publicly administered auto repair.

There would be private underground auto repair shops pop up. They would cost money. But they would fix your car right. However since your tax money already is taken from you for "Free" repair of your car by the government you are paying twice. Critics of the private shops say they won't fix junkers, badly damaged or lost cause autos. Some people wouldn't be able to afford the repairs if it weren't for Public Auto Repair.

I know the Metaphor breaks down (or is it analogy). But the question Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online asked this week in a Chicago Tribune articles is: Why do we need Public Education at all?

I know all the arguments. I just wanted to post the question one more time. We just had graduation of the illiterates from the Chicago Public School System. We can't get educated people of competence who can work in high tech so we have to import them from China and India. Try hiring folds of ability.

I think we need public education like we need public auto repair. We don't.

Close all schools.

Goldberg says this key thing in his article:

There’s a consensus in America that every child should get an education, but as David Gelernter noted recently in The Weekly Standard, there’s no such consensus that public schools need to do the educating.

Really, what would be so terrible about government mandating that every kid has to go to school, and providing subsidies and oversight when necessary, but then getting out of the way?

Milton Friedman noted long ago that the government is bad at providing services — that’s why he wanted public schools to be called “government schools” — but that it’s good at writing checks. So why not cut checks to people so they can send their kids to school?

What about the good public schools? Well, the reason good public schools are good has nothing to do with government’s special expertise and everything to do with the fact that parents care enough to ensure their kids get a good education. That wouldn’t change if the government got out of the school business. What would change is that fewer kids would get left behind.

CAN'T WE THINK OUT OF THE BUREAUCRATIC BOX JUST ONCE?

Look how well the TSA has worked out.