Does deregulation ever work?

The only industsy that I see that needs deregulation is education. In the last 15 years primary education I nthe uS has become more and more regulated. This forces teachers to teach for tests instead of teaching a more well rounded course. If you look at college entrance exam (still complelty unregulated in private universities), there has been a significant negative impact in recent years.

Deregulation of any industry must be done with the greatest of care. Such as with health care, we all the what capitalism has done with the cost of health care, but in turn we do have a regulated health care system, socialist health care - it’s called the VA and just the horror stories coming from military personel that wait 6 month for a follow up on a gun shot wound to the head is a sign that deregulated health care is (currenlty and sadly) the better choice.

I cannot think of one industry that has ever gotten better through deregulation. And when I say better, I mean for the consumer. Deregualtion always benefits industry while screwing the people. But the right-wing spin machine always tries to portray government as inept and unable to do anything effieciently. And that once you relieve the burden of regulation, it will magically make everything better for everyone. Look what has happened to oil prices mostly due to loosening of regulations for speculators. Government is only inneficient when it is run by conservatives, who, I think, purposely govern badly so they can point at governemnt and say, see, I told you so.

Adding a profit motive does not automatically make things more efficient. Ususally it only makes things more expensive. But they use fear of… Socialism. Ohhh, not that!!! As if strictly regulating key industries is going to lead to the downfall of the American way of life.

What a bunch of nonsense, but some people are completely clueless.