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But both of those things are going bankrupt!
Actually, Medicare isn’t bankrupt. Social Security wouldn’t be in trouble if it wasn’t for Reagan, et al, robbing it at gun point to give it away as corporate welfare.
Systems work, just that (certain) Republicans are idiots.
Why the five pointed stars on every badge?
Because it’s a political cartoon smart guy.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.
The problem with capitalism is that eventually the poor people are too poor to give their money to the wealthy.
Hammer and sickle? THE USSR WAS COMMUNIST.
God damnit, you moron Republicans are fucking retarded.
The problem with John is he doesn’t know how capitalism works.
The problem with this country is that it stopped actually being capitalist a long time ago.
The problem is we don’t have real capitalism anymore. We have corporatism. If we had capitalism we would have shorter intellectual property ownership periods, shorter patent ownership periods, more and smaller companies in industries and fair regulation. If we had the above we wouldn’t have a health care crisis or a bank crisis.
Sorry but you can’t read only the parts of Adam Smith you like.
@ALEX: The buttons aren’t real buttons. These were drawn by the cartoonist.
@KEVIN: Have you seen the real protest signs the “Tea Party” people put up? They ARE that stupid.
“capitalism” isn’t magic. The “good old days” sucked. socialism is actually a very very good thing. yes social security and medicare are socialism. If the average American understood that, the word “socialism” would have no power.
I bet the average American doesn’t know that social security programs were funded without the heavy hand of socialism.
For instance: http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/friendly-societies-voluntary-social-security-and-more/
hey alex, look up what USSR stands for. then what communist and socialist mean.
Haha good point MEH! Way to blow Alex
Poor America is still afraid of that word socialism. They just don’t get it. It’s sad for the poor who are the ones who need this reform. Funny how it works for practically all other developed nations without them becoming communist hotbeds of revolution and global domination. Their right wing and big business have won again. Suckers!! Such ignorance does not deserve a break. But…. I pity the poor. For them it is hell.
You have never given a single penny to a corporation that you didn’t at some point voluntary agree to give. If you believe otherwise, then you’ve got grounds for a lawsuit. Check your mortgage contract. I bet you even agreed to pay every month, even if your house declines in value! Think about that for a moment. It’s ALL VOLUNTARY by design.
Socialism, on the other hand, is force. It is theft. Theft is wrong.
And no, what The United States has is *not* capitalism. Capitalism is a philosophy of free, voluntary, and mutually-beneficial exchange. When large corporations support health insurance “mandates” because it disproportionately hurts their smaller competitors, for example, that is not capitalism. That is government coercion, or, as mentioned above, corporatism.
Why something as obviously broken as Socialism has any traction among the public these days, with literally dozens of examples of failed attempts, and hundreds of millions dead from starvation at the hands of the central planners and the Great Leaders, is completely beyond me. I have to wonder: what would a good counter example look like? Maybe, in a few decades, when the United States looks like 1989 East Germany, we’ll *just* *start* to get the idea… Government is not your friend.
Rubberlegs — Even if I accept your premise (that money paid to a corporation is voluntary, which I don’t) I don’t get your conclusion. In the same way that you can pick a different corporation to do business with, you can pick a different country to live in.
You give the example of a mortgage contract, but unless I want to be homeless (or I’m rich), I pretty much have to sign a mortgage with some corporation, and I’d like to see a mortgage company that will let me pay back less money if my house declines in value!
If you absolutely believe that government is never, ever your friend, then you would love living in Somalia.
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