They are not and never have been accomplished at rehabilitation. In many large, metropolitan cities, clearly half of the students drop out before graduation. It is becoming an undeniable fact that our society is becoming illiterate. While more and more world governments are moving to free market economies, the United States is spending record amounts of tax dollars for more and more government functions. Government functions that private enterprise could provide to the citizens much, much better and at less cost.
Governments are ineffecient.
Ineffeciencies create a necessasity for higher tax rates. We pay more for those services than we should. Our government is in many, many businesses that private enterprise can do and is, often, already doing. It is not much different in size now. That is almost one of every one hundred-thirty man, woman and child in the U.S. is employed by the federal government.