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Freeborn
reply to post by hangedman13
Of course people are not gonna like the Dutch Kings idea,.....
It's not the 'King's idea'; the Dutch King addresses the nation each year presenting the budget for the coming year in a speech written for him by the Prime Minister.
It's the much the same as here in the UK when once a year the Queen attends the Opening Of Parliament and reads out a speech prepared for her giving details of the Bills that the government intend to introduce to Parliament during that year.
I can understand how those who don't have Constitutional Monarchies like The Netherlands and the UK would be confused by such proceedings but the reality is that our relative monarchs have very, very little influence over the policies of our ruling governments.
CB328
a "participation society" is emerging, in which people must take responsibility for their own future and create their own social and financial safety nets
Wow, it sounds like the Republicans' class warfare got appropriated by some royals who were looking for a good line of BS to bankrupt their people.
How in the $%^& can poor people "create their own safety nets"???
You can't take everything away from people in a modern society and have them survive. It's not like they all have farms and can start feeding themselves.
You will have people rioting and killing themselves like what happened in Greece so the rich can have some fun.
Socialism never worked in the first place, doesn't work now and will never work in the future.
It's called the 'social contract' and were it not for corporate and personal greed, it would work well.
earthling42
reply to post by eLPresidente
I wonder how you see socialism?
I'm living in the Netherlands and thus in a social state which has been working for years, untill the whole mantra of privatization broke loose in the early 90s and banks were allowed to fuse/grow to be 'to big to fail'.
In short, the line between the state and private sector has been wiped out while the state kept paying money to companies that were privatized and on the other side gives a garantee to the banks.
So state subsidized companies atracts expensive managers, in housing, health care, public transportation, education and energy and they have one goal, growth, the companies must generate profit so the shareholders are happy.
For this they reorganise often and lay off people, cut in services untill the whole house of cards eventually collapses.
The banks have received a free card, the garantee means that their profits are private while their losses are for the taxpayers.
A social state to me is education for every child paid by the collective so no child is left behind, same goes for health care.
If one has no work he will get social benefit, but also has the obligation to sollicitate at least twice a week to get a job again.
Because we have to join a pensionfund and a part of our salary goes to pension, we should not have to be to concerned about later, after all, we have been paying for it for 45 or more years.
It would still work if the state companies were not privatized and did what they are supposed to do, serve the public and not being concerned with making profits and build a layer of expensive managers who think they at least should have half a million a year for what they do.
And the state should not garantee the losses of private companies, if a bank fails, to bad for them, they should not take to much risks.
The banks should be cut into many little banks so they are 'to small to bail' than they will think twice before they make a mess of it and risk the downfall of their business.
teapot
reply to post by xuenchen
It's called the 'social contract' and were it not for corporate and personal greed, it would work well.
Your fight against big bank bailouts isn't with me, in fact it is with a lot of your socialist friends.
eLPresidente
If socialism was so great, people would come to IT vs using violence to force people IN.