Those countries which have a much higher degree of socialism then the
United States. These countries being, Sweden, France, England,
Norway. In fact, most of the prosperous European states. You must
remember that our own country has a moderate degree of socialism as
is evident in our educational system, fire departments, police
departments, and military establishment.
Dan
At 11:43 AM 10/28/2009, bob quinn said something that elicited my response:
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 all the
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
