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re: What’s so great about socialism?
Posted on 8/16/18 at 2:53 pm to wazoo11
Posted on 8/16/18 at 2:53 pm to wazoo11
Everything is free for everyone. It’s a magical thing that gives everyone free stuff with out working for it . It doesn’t chace away companies from doing business and employing people. These companies look to share their profits with everyone when the government forces them to do it.
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Posted on 8/16/18 at 3:04 pm to beerJeep
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Aka. The govt ran your business and you were just the figurehead of the business. And just to drive this point home. What if you, the “business owner” decided to sell at a different price or make a different product? Would the govt be like ok fam. That’s cool. Or would you be arrested (read killed), and the govt place another person in charge who listens to them? So, if you have no say in the running of your business, and if you can just be replaced with someone new at the drop of a hat, do you really “own” your business?
Socialism defies human nature, the inner drive to be better than the next person. Everywhere socialism has been implemented black markets have emerged to supply needed goods that are in short supply, or better quality, or cheaper, or any combination of these factors. Since socialism cannot function with unregulated market competition the government has to crack down on it, this usually results in a police state and given time a dictatorship.
Posted on 8/16/18 at 3:10 pm to ibleedprplngld
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Really? These are the countries you try to compare the US to?
When you’re selling something thoroughly proven to be faulty, it helps to point at small inapplicable examples where it has been less faulty and extreme examples where something much better has failed.
He’s essentially an infomercial.
This post was edited on 8/16/18 at 3:11 pm
Posted on 8/17/18 at 9:19 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Here is your issue: the desirable characteristics of Scandinavia existed well before their welfare states started
We had great income inequality scores, too, until Reagan's adherence to voodoo economics wrecked it.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 9:20 am to BamaAtl
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We had great income inequality scores, too, until Reagan's adherence to voodoo economics wrecked it.
I hate to tell you, it started long before Reagan.
Income inequality is vastly overrated as an issue.
This post was edited on 8/17/18 at 9:22 am
Posted on 8/17/18 at 9:22 am to BamaAtl
quote:Shut your whore mouth that's ASUrob's hero.
We had great income inequality scores, too, until Reagan's adherence to voodoo economics wrecked it.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 9:24 am to BamaAtl
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We had great income inequality scores, too, until LBJ's Great Society programs wrecked it. And the economy as a whole.
Edited for Accuracy.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 9:26 am to Centinel
The bottom of the ladder became stagnant in the 70's. BamaATL is clueless
Posted on 8/17/18 at 10:19 am to RogerTheShrubber
Socialism, is great, until you run out of OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY 
Posted on 8/17/18 at 10:36 am to BamaAtl
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Trump's doing a terrible job compared to the types of socialism people are actually advocating - like Sweden, or Denmark.
I wish you would move to one of those utopian countries.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 10:50 am to BamaAtl
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Trump's doing a terrible job compared to the types of socialism people are actually advocating - like Sweden, or Denmark.
Just like capitalism is shite in places like the Congo or Liberia or Brazil.
Socialism: a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community (government) as a whole.
There's nothing in that definition that jibes with individualism, personal sovereignty, economic incentives, etc. Socialism has failure at it's core.
The closest thing to socialism that actually works is philanthropy/charity by Godly people.
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