Saying that employers shouldn't hire inefficient, sick people is a disgusting mentality. Are you including the disabled in those ranks? Maybe we can be like India and all of our blind citizens can have drastically reduced life expectancies because they aren't useful enough to do manual labor. Sounds lovely.

Meanwhile, kiss goodbye most of the productive scientists in your society -- the lowest common denominator folks running corporations are far too interested in short term profits to focus on long term research or planning. Scientists won't get a chance to do real research, high tech funding will be a thing of the past. Make sure to welcome your rapidly commencing "Tragedy of the Commons" scenarios since no research will be being done to prevent them. And the biggest corporations will buy out the legal system too. Free market, right?

Going out and "making connections" is not something bright people should be wasting their time doing. They aren't Amway salesmen or Insurance peddlers. Part of government is to systematically abstract away and fund the talented people, while keeping the masses from being too destructive. It works fairly well.

Genuinely talented Americans don't have to "go Galt" like right wingers would have you believe. Only the working class would believe that BS, since they aren't likely to know anyone genuinely talented. In the meantime, the smart folks are working for Google and Amazon, making high six figure salaries and sending their kids to Waldorf.

And yes, you are misrepresenting the teaparty mentality. Your lack of willingness (and others in the working class) to pay taxes doesn't mean a thing. Society will extract value from you regardless, because that's how society works. It's how the human race moves forward. We've chosen that approach because living in chaos with a mob mentality makes life dirty, brutish and short.

And regarding schools, we agree that poorly raised children are the result of ignorant parents. Who else will break the cycle if not a third party arbitrator? That is the goal of public schools. Currently the system is failing in giving most students much of a better opportunity, which is why school reform is a priority all around the country. Within a few years, the public school system will look very different, and the results will be much better.