Hi Dan, Just curious, what successful socialist country would you hold up as an example?
At 08:32 PM 10/27/2009, Dan wrote: >As John has said before, democracy is nothing more than mob rule. Our country >is not a democracy but rather a representative form of government. That is, we >elect people to do our bidding. The trouble is greed gets in the way. So our >representatives stop representing ourselves and start representing those with >the most money. This is where capitalism comes into play. For some reason the >majority of people in this country love this system. They love the American >way which is like a giant game of Monopoly. A few get people all the money and >of course all the power. The people with all the power elect those who in turn >see to it that those in power, stay in power. > >A much more humane system of governance would be a form of socialism. Which is >what most people in the world use as a form of government. This country is >afraid of socialism. They think socialism is the same as communism. Communism >is not the bugaboo that people seem think it is. The trouble with Communism >is, it doesn't work. But it is a great idea. Everyone does their share of the >work and reaps their share of the profits. But of course, there is always one >or two slackers, and then three or four slackers, and so on and so on until >you have a few people doing most of the work with the resulting lack of >profits, produce, etc.. Unfortunately, I guess that's common nature. > >This is where socialism came in. People in socialist countries work far fewer >hours than they do in strictly capitalistic countries. Because they don't work >as hard they generally are much happier. The government provides them with all >the necessities of life. Such as; education, medical care, a good >infrastructure, police force, fire department, etc. Of course, they are >heavily taxed. But it does not seem to bother them as all their basic needs >are provided for. How many people do you know that waste their excess money? I >have neighbors that don't have a pot to piss in yet they have four cars in >their driveway. I have neighbors that fight to see who can get the biggest >pool or most expensive car or - well you get the point. > >Okay I'm done ranting. > >Dan
