A certain amount of socialism is essential for a stable society. It would be so much more productive if conservatives would accept that and debate the actual issues, instead of whining about their infantile strawman arguments.
Pure communism is corrosive and breeds abuse and inefficiency.
Pure capitalism is equally corrosive and breeds the same sort of abuse by different people, and a different sort of inefficiency.
In the real world, a balance between the two is needed, and we need to constantly bicker over where to draw the lines----instead of pretending that anyone who holds a different view is fundamentally stupid and/or ignorant.
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nothingUnreal 2011/06/25 21:25:13
if a Teabagger falls on a tree in a forest........Does anyone care?
socialism =, govt intervention , social security ( we all pay in to assist when to old to work ) and for medical care etc...disability "weither mental or physical " ....
no ownership of personal property , reliant on government for everything,,, but no freedoms , liberties , rights ,
the military is a form of socialism ,own nothing ,do as your told ,allegance to country & leadership ....
or a fine line between both ............
but in these trying time when unemployment is so high , jobs lowpaying at best , reliance on social services at all time high ,,,,what ya gonna do .......?
the leaders sure dont know what to do .....there totally lost ,,but dont want to admit it ! that would create a chaos ......so keep the propaganda streaming .......promisses flowing ........people confused ......
suppose it's all what ya believe is best ........should be an individual decision ,,,,not any more !
Mankind can achieve so much more than mere equal misery and the slavery of socialism.
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom--go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
~Samuel Adams (August 1776)
I choose liberty over artificial comeuppance.
"Liberalism has its own history and its own tradition.
Socialism has its own formulas and its own aims.
Socialism seeks to pull down wealth; Liberalism seeks to raise up poverty.
Socialism would destroy private interests; Liberalism would preserve private interests in the only way in which they can be safely and justly preserved, namely, by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference.
Socialism assails the pre-eminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks, and shall seek more in the future, to build up a minimum standard for the mass.
Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man.
Socialism attacks capital; Liberalism attacks monopoly.
These are the great distinctions which I draw, and which, I think, you will think I am right in drawing at this election between our philosophies and our ideals. Don't think that Liberalism is a faith that is played out; that it is a philosophy to which there is no expanding future. As long as the world rolls round Liberalism will have its part to play - a grand, beneficent, and ameliorating part to play - in relation to men and States".
-WINSTON CHURCHILL-May 4, 1908. Kinnaird Hall, Dundee
Here's another funny story. How Obama got elected.
.....GOP SOCIALISM in the WORKS!!!...."PRIVATIZING the PROFITS,SOCIALIZING the LOSSES!!!.....