Yep. That's socialism in a nutshell. Margaret Thatcher once famously said that the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. So True. Yet, our low-IQ friends on the left never seem to understand this. Consider what we've seen the past year or two.
● Guaranteed Minimum "Income"
Ontario announced just yesterday that they were ending their experiment with a free basic income. The plan had been to give single people up to $17,000 a year each and married people up to $24,000, with those faking a disability another $6,000. But the plan was cancelled less than a single year into its three year plan. Why? According to Canuck Authorities, "It wasn't sustainable." In other words, it cost too much and made people too lazy. Yeah, no sh*t, eh?!
Sweden tried this last year too. They wanted to give cash to the long-term unemployed in the hopes that they would no longer feel so stressed out about finding work and would go get jobs with the stress gone. You know... for fun. That lasted only a few months into a three year plan too. Why? It wasn't working and it was costing too much. Really? Shocker!
Yet, leftists like these new socialist turds keep pushing the idea.
● Medicare for All
Bernie came up with a way to say "socialized medicine" without it sounding so harsh. He called it Medicare for all! A study released the other day, and widely reported, concluded that this would cost around $32 TRILLION to implement. And given how government works, that's understated by a factor of five. To give you a sense of perspective, the entire federal budget for 2018 is $3.6 trillion. So this would cost about 9 times the entire federal budget. Or said differently, it would mean taxes of about $100,000 a year per every man, woman and child in this country. Nice work, Bernie!
● Venezuela
Venezuela has reached the point all socialist countries reach eventually. Total poverty. Shortages of fuel, food, medicine. The total absence of basic consumer goods. The shuttering of factories. Roving gangs of killers trying to stay alive. China was headed in this direction until they went capitalist. Now they're super rich. Vietnam, same thing. Eastern Europe, same thing. Even Russia kind of sort of did this. No socialist system has lasted long. Every socialist system has drive the country in question to the brink of cannibalism. Capitalism saved them all. So why are so many Democrats proud to be called socialists? Are they just psychopaths or are they monsterously stupid... because there's no other possibility.
● Guaranteed Minimum "Income"
Ontario announced just yesterday that they were ending their experiment with a free basic income. The plan had been to give single people up to $17,000 a year each and married people up to $24,000, with those faking a disability another $6,000. But the plan was cancelled less than a single year into its three year plan. Why? According to Canuck Authorities, "It wasn't sustainable." In other words, it cost too much and made people too lazy. Yeah, no sh*t, eh?!
Sweden tried this last year too. They wanted to give cash to the long-term unemployed in the hopes that they would no longer feel so stressed out about finding work and would go get jobs with the stress gone. You know... for fun. That lasted only a few months into a three year plan too. Why? It wasn't working and it was costing too much. Really? Shocker!
Yet, leftists like these new socialist turds keep pushing the idea.
● Medicare for All
Bernie came up with a way to say "socialized medicine" without it sounding so harsh. He called it Medicare for all! A study released the other day, and widely reported, concluded that this would cost around $32 TRILLION to implement. And given how government works, that's understated by a factor of five. To give you a sense of perspective, the entire federal budget for 2018 is $3.6 trillion. So this would cost about 9 times the entire federal budget. Or said differently, it would mean taxes of about $100,000 a year per every man, woman and child in this country. Nice work, Bernie!
● Venezuela
Venezuela has reached the point all socialist countries reach eventually. Total poverty. Shortages of fuel, food, medicine. The total absence of basic consumer goods. The shuttering of factories. Roving gangs of killers trying to stay alive. China was headed in this direction until they went capitalist. Now they're super rich. Vietnam, same thing. Eastern Europe, same thing. Even Russia kind of sort of did this. No socialist system has lasted long. Every socialist system has drive the country in question to the brink of cannibalism. Capitalism saved them all. So why are so many Democrats proud to be called socialists? Are they just psychopaths or are they monsterously stupid... because there's no other possibility.
and in other good news...a large group of folks in Chicago are calling for Rahm to resign, now...they note that his administration has been a total failure...
ReplyDeleteSocialists: “Well, that didn’t work. We must not have tried hard enough.”
ReplyDeleteSocialists: “Well, that didn’t work. We must not have tried hard enough.”
ReplyDeleteAnd they call us idiots!
Critch, By any measure, most of Chicago is a disaster. A war-zone-worthy murder rate, out of control crime, lousy education. That's years of Democratic rule for you.
ReplyDeletetryanmax, Or the wrong people were in charge. We just need somebody better to try it all over again.
ReplyDelete"Socialism has never really been tried"... has said every socialist, all the time.
TJ, Isn't that the truth!
ReplyDeleteEvery time I have ever commented that socialism/communism has never worked, I hear, 'Well, people were greedy.", "They didn't do it right.", blah blah blah...the fact is that it never works. Even the president od Denmark will tell you that they are a market economy and are moving away from the government running everything. I've seen so any stupid memes on how happy people are in socialist countries,,,then why the Hell are they all moving here...? One of the workers at our local WMT is from Germany, she loves it here. She is full time at WMT, here kids go to our public schools and she actually owns a house and a little land. Her husband works at the VA. i doubt she would want to go back to Europe. BTW, I knew an American when I was stationed in Germany that was retired US Army and he worked for the German postal system and his German wife worked on base and they still couldn't afford to own a house.
ReplyDeleteCritch, That's always a great question. If the US is so bad, why does everyone want to come here?
ReplyDeleteBTW, it's hard to tell anything for real, but it seems like Mueller's trial against Manafort is going rather poorly. If he loses that, look for the whole Russia investigation to collapse.
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