Whistling past the graveyard of socialism

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP should learn to use this idiom correctly.

OP should also learn what socialism is.

Socialism is great until you start running out of other people's money to spend.

You will never run out of other people's money. Things and programs offered by the socialists like Bernie Sanders are FREE!!!!
Free college
Free healthcare
Free
Free
Free!!!!


Free doesn't cost people anything. (sic)

That's the fifth grade version of Sanders' campaign. No, not even fifth grade, because my third grader understands what Bernie is proposing. Which is not that things are free, but spending priorities are changed. Spending less in one area lets you spend more in another. That, plus get rid of corporate welfare.

And hike taxes quite a bit.
And, not everyone’s spending priorities are changing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP should learn to use this idiom correctly.

OP should also learn what socialism is.

Socialism is great until you start running out of other people's money to spend.

You will never run out of other people's money. Things and programs offered by the socialists like Bernie Sanders are FREE!!!!
Free college
Free healthcare
Free
Free
Free!!!!


Free doesn't cost people anything. (sic)

That's the fifth grade version of Sanders' campaign. No, not even fifth grade, because my third grader understands what Bernie is proposing. Which is not that things are free, but spending priorities are changed. Spending less in one area lets you spend more in another. That, plus get rid of corporate welfare.

I am surprised that you are old enough to have a child in the third grade. You seem so politically jejune

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Happy day! Common sense is breaking out all over and triumphing over the evils of socialism and Marxism.

Maduro's "Bolivarian" Marxists were trounced after literally destroying the economy of Venezuela.

Murderous and corrupt DeKirchner threw a tantrum and refused to even attend her opponent's inauguration in Argentina.

The French realize that socialists won't protect them from ISIS or the quiet invasion of economic migrants seeking handouts.

Moderate parties in Holland and Germany are attracting many defectors from leftist/socialist parties.

And here in the U.S., everyone knows Sanders doesn't stand a chance (sad though that anyone would support him at all).

Bye socialists! Can't say I'll miss you!

Word!!

Venezuela has to be the best lesson in 'socialism is for the socialists, not for the people' I've ever seen!

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Anonymous wrote:Norway's per capita income is 25% higher than ours.

Laugh. Norway is a petrostate, with massive oil revenues and a tiny, homogenous population. We can't duplicate that. You want a place with 25% higher GDP than the US than we can emulate? Try Singapore. Zero natural resources, was at latin america GDP levels 50 years ago, ethically mixed population. They rank 2nd in economic freedom behind similar success story Hong Kong, government spending as a % of GDP less than half that of the US.

Sources:
http://www.heritage.org/index/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending#As_a_percentage_of_GDP

Gotta love a country that is offering about 4K and a one-way plane ticket to get Muslim refugees OUT after being overwhelmed (thanks Russia)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/norway-paying-asylum-seekers-to-return-home-as-refugee-crisis-continues-a6763496.html

And before anyone gets all 'Islamophobia', consider the following:

http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/15/syrian-refugees-in-norway-have-pictures-of-severed-heads-and-executions-on-their-phones/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is random. Have you been oppressed by socialism your whole life, OP? Do you feel like it's affecting you here in the US?

Not OP, but my younger years have been stunted by the grim reality of socialism (hard-core, not some Swedish model Americans like to idealize). It is not affecting me in the U.S., but I fear it may affect the next generation. It would be incredibly unfortunate.

[Anonymous]

Israel is doing pretty well...and republicans love that socialist country!

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Immigrants from the ex-USSR states tend to be as violently anti-socialist/pro-neoliberal and were their ancestors violently communist/collectivist.

Hey guys, maybe calm the 'eff down and stop being so extremist? The pendulum doesn't need to swing so far in either direction. You can still have some socialist policies (like the social safety net, universal health care, subsidized higher ed) while still having a vibrant capitalist economy driven by market incentives.

[Anonymous]

I love how people scream the US doesn't have any money, meanwhile were building 40 million dollar gas stations over in the Middle East. Mean while GWB administration "loses" 25 Billion dollars and now blinks an eye, and now its all forgotten. Mean while were spending 30 Billion to update useless never to be used army Humvee's. I worked in Government for over a decade I could list you the amount of waste/theft I saw, but you would go join ISIS if I did lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love how people scream the US doesn't have any money, meanwhile were building 40 million dollar gas stations over in the Middle East. Mean while GWB administration "loses" 25 Billion dollars and now blinks an eye, and now its all forgotten. Mean while were spending 30 Billion to update useless never to be used army Humvee's. I worked in Government for over a decade I could list you the amount of waste/theft I saw, but you would go join ISIS if I did lol

Sorry for typo's on the phone lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Israel is doing pretty well...and republicans love that socialist country!

and love giving them US tax payers money, as well as US Government secrets like the "H" bomb

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is random. Have you been oppressed by socialism your whole life, OP? Do you feel like it's affecting you here in the US?

Not OP, but my younger years have been stunted by the grim reality of socialism (hard-core, not some Swedish model Americans like to idealize). It is not affecting me in the U.S., but I fear it may affect the next generation. It would be incredibly unfortunate.

I suspect by "hardcore socialism" you mean communism. They are very, very different things

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Hardcore socialism = NSFW. Can we move this to the Explicit Forum?

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Yes, I for one think it'd be a great idea to make the water supply a for-profit venture, abolish public school and fire departments. Have Halliburton run the police. Great thinking, OP.

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Venezuela's problem wasn't "socialism," it was that its leader was a demagogue and everyone -- from the capitalists on over to the far left -- was corrupt to the core.

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Anonymous wrote:Israel is doing pretty well...and republicans love that socialist country!

We pay them, dude