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originally posted by: rickymouse
I don't have any problem with Socialism. I do have a problem with some people who do not want to do their job and causes other workers to work harder to make up. Once in a while a person feels down and can't work, but I know too many people who slack off and others have to do extra work.
If the employer can fire one of these types in Socialism it is all right. If you don't like the work, find something you do like instead of making your coworkers miserable. Capitalism can work right, but people exploit it too. If you go to work for eight hours, work is work, there should not be people making a hundred grand a year for what they are doing. I like what I read about Norways socialism. It seems to be something that is working.
Healhcare should be socialized. There is no doubt in my mind. When people profit off of others sickness, it can get corrupt.
originally posted by: schuyler
Wholesale socialism will take care of you, and the cost is subversive. It's the road to Hell paved with good intentions. The Devil gives you what you think you want. The drive to socialism is driven by envy and resentment that anyone could have more than you do, so socialism is seen as the great equalizer. Implemented, everyone will be equally rich, but what really happens is that they wind up equally poor. Great Britain is a perfect example. faced with an existential threat during WW II the socialists wasted no time in taking over, stripping the rich of their great houses with the excuse of "It's for the children," and after the war implementing a tax system that that the Exchequer famously said of the rich, "It will make their pips squeak." (a reference to symbols in family Coats of Arms)
Now look at Britain: Empire gone, a shadow of its former self. And ironically, the only reason people go there is to see royalty and the big houses now owned by the National Trust. Without the tourist trade, Great Britain would be a third world country. That's what socialism has done to the formerly great Britain
originally posted by: poncho1982
originally posted by: rickymouse
I don't have any problem with Socialism. I do have a problem with some people who do not want to do their job and causes other workers to work harder to make up. Once in a while a person feels down and can't work, but I know too many people who slack off and others have to do extra work.
If the employer can fire one of these types in Socialism it is all right. If you don't like the work, find something you do like instead of making your coworkers miserable. Capitalism can work right, but people exploit it too. If you go to work for eight hours, work is work, there should not be people making a hundred grand a year for what they are doing. I like what I read about Norways socialism. It seems to be something that is working.
Healhcare should be socialized. There is no doubt in my mind. When people profit off of others sickness, it can get corrupt.
Perhaps the Socialists should enact a punishment for that laziness.
Unhappy in you government appointed job? Spend your day complaining, and being lazy?
Then welcome to the rock quarry, here's you hammer. Maybe after a year of manual labor you'll appreciate your cushy job you were complaining about.
originally posted by: Blindmancc
It does not work, it is proven not to work, yet there are those who seem to love to give away their freedom on the hope it will work. Leave the United States alone and go where those ideas are practiced. I was killed for freedom and freedom is found on this continent in the American way. We just need to get back to that, and police the greed and corruption which has bloomed in our government.
There are a few country's which have socialism, go live there.
a reply to: nonspecific
originally posted by: Blindmancc
It does not work, it is proven not to work, yet there are those who seem to love to give away their freedom on the hope it will work. Leave the United States alone and go where those ideas are practiced. I was killed for freedom and freedom is found on this continent in the American way. We just need to get back to that, and police the greed and corruption which has bloomed in our government.
There are a few country's which have socialism, go live there.
a reply to: nonspecific
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: Blindmancc
It does not work, it is proven not to work, yet there are those who seem to love to give away their freedom on the hope it will work. Leave the United States alone and go where those ideas are practiced. I was killed for freedom and freedom is found on this continent in the American way. We just need to get back to that, and police the greed and corruption which has bloomed in our government.
There are a few country's which have socialism, go live there.
a reply to: nonspecific
If you were killed for freedom then how are you posting ?
I was killed for freedom.....
...... and freedom is found on this continent in the American way.
We just need to get back to that, and police the greed and corruption which has bloomed in our government.
originally posted by: stosh64
a reply to: nonspecific
IMHO, the problem is not the system, it is us, HUMANS.
What ever system is used, man will find a way to abuse it. Period.
The rest, capitalize the s*** out of it. Because of supply and demand, everytime someone buys a product, that person is VOTING on that product. Bad products don't sell, garbage out.
originally posted by: Edumakated
Public education in the US is socialized and it has been an unmitigated disaster, particularly for the poor. All one has to do is look at the VA and medicare to see how socialized medicine works.
originally posted by: Blindmancc
I was killed for freedom