Very good. I once read that a board member fo the Federal Reserve, testifying before Congress in hearings to determine the causes of the Great Depression, made the comment that, “In our system, money doesn’t exist until it is borrowed.” – Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins
st lucy,
Have you seen the news lately? (You can even watch news broadcasts from other countries–BBC, CCTV, etc., and see that our nation is struggling very much. America is sadly not as “great” as it once was. I truly believe this is why we bring up the question of Socialism, and even other forms of government. That doesn’t mean you have to agree with it, that doesn’t mean you have to go along with it. That is your right. But, please don’t go around insulting someone on one issue just because you got your hot buttons pushed by that person about another issue.)
I think it is well known that Swedes are hard working and thrifty people. And that Sweden is a great country. However, I heard that there were some complaints about the high taxes in Sweden?
Hi PlipPlop,The USSR, China, and North Korea are the examples usually trotted out by anti-Socialists. It is what I expected.
Socialism and communism are not the same, sorry. Communism belongs in the same category as Libertarianism and Anarchy: nice idea, but wouldn’t actually work outside of theory.
Anyway, I usually counter with Sweden. Sweden is happier, healthier, freer, and wealthier than the United States. They’re also socialist.
Your argument makes no sence at all. Canada has about 150 people in prision for every 100,000 population. United States locks up about 720 people for every 100,000 people. United States locks up a higher percentage of its population than any other nation on earth. More than Russia and more than China. United States is the prison nation of the earth. It is also the prison rape nation of the earth too. American prisons encourage the rape of the physically weaker prisioners so the over populated prisons can be managed easier.
Guess who runs the vast majority of those prisons?
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I am an entrepreneur myself. Nobody hands me a paycheck every two weeks. I have to work very very efficiently to make my business work. It is not easy but for me this is what I want to do.
"An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student, but had once failed an entire class.
The students insisted that socialism worked since no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.”
“All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade.”
After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who had studied hard were upset while the students who had studied very little were happy.
But, as the second test rolled around, the students who had studied little studied even less and the ones who had studied hard decided that since they couldn’t make an A, they also studied less. The second Test average was a D.
No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around the average grade was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling, all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for anyone else.
To their great surprise all failed. The professor told them that socialism would ultimately fail because the harder people try to succeed the greater their reward (capitalism) but when a government takes all the reward away (socialism) no one will try or succeed.The jail rates in the USA show conclusively that capitalism has not worked and it is time to take a look at the socialist countries which have lower crime and jail rates than the USA…
How so?
If crime rates are an indication of capitalistic failure, Hong Kong should have the highest incarceration rate on the planet.
The Church rejects socialism. Thus, it is an important argument.