You are comparing apples with oranges. I said competition is good because we are talking about blogging space. Imagine if there was only one blogging platform. It would not be a nice situation. So Wordpress and Blogger both developing actively is a good thing for the rest of us. It would be best if more blogging platforms could jump in and improve the space (not that there aren't others already).

Back to education and government. You are already blaming your paying taxes as a culprit for you attending bad government school. What proof do you have to back up your allegation? What if there was no public school and less government taxes and still no private school to provide you education? Do you think private schools are only going to crop up because government isn't charging more taxes? What guarantee is there that you'd have a good private school in the absence of any public school? Blaming taxes for all the ills of the government is a myth propagated by one of the political party. Check out the countries where there are no government schools of any quality (because people don't pay taxes and things are pretty much messed up all around). You'd be glad you attended public school in America irrespective of the quality compared to many other countries of the world.