We need to immediately stop the reckless and wasteful throwing of tax dollars at the education system, where the return for your dollar is abysmal. The private sector continually outperform the public sector and they do it for a lower cost, because they run the schools efficiently instead of acting as a black hole for tax dollars where they have no incentive to provide decent education and every incentive to hire administrators who spend their budget every year.

Private education will work extremely well. The basic idea is that instead of throwing tax dollars at a public school, you let parents reward the good schools that satisfy their needs and meet their standards, by letting parents decide where to send their kids.

You could introduce a voucher system which goes towards school fees, perhaps a few thousand dollars per student. The vouchers would go to the parents and not the schools. So all schools in the free market would have to compete against each other.

End socialised education, it is a miserable failure and the amount of money the government throws at education DOUBLES every few years. It rations out education to those who happen to live near a particular school and the cost per student is just as high as a private school, except you don't ever see the bill for public schools, it is passed on to massive bureaucracy known as the Dept of Education, who always rubber stamp their budgets and spend tens of billions every year and second-rate education.

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These ads on TV telling people to get ringtones and games and relationship advice and other assorted gimmicks from Jamster and Ringtone King and all the others are getting out of hand. It's well known that kids often sign up to these companies on their mobiles and the parents end up being hammered with a several thousand dollar phone bill because of the fees (which aren't advertised sufficiently enough).

Firstly, I propose that the ongoing fees and other terms and conditions are made 100% clear to the viewer, including making the font for the terms at the bottom of the screen much bigger than they are, and by making the actors voice the terms during the commercial, so that people are well aware of just how much they're paying for the service and what they're getting for it, as well as how to stop the service.

Secondly, all the lies must go, for instance those "extra strong" vibrate ringtones don't actually make the phone vibrate stronger (vibrate strength is locked in the phone by the manufacturer), and just because you and your partners names are apparently not "compatible", doesn't mean you and your partner's relationship is doomed to failure (I wonder just how many stupid people have broken their relationship due to these "compatibility" services). These should be banned. As well as these lies, the word "unique" should be banned, since these products can be got elsewhere in every case.

I would like to see these companies banned altogether, to me they're a disgusting attempt to take money from people gullible (or just plain stupid) enough to buy such useless gimmicks, but I don't see that happening. However, I think it's very important to make these changes at least, to stop so many kids and other people being suckered into these scams.

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