This is why we call politicians parasites. They are like having a 50 pound tick attached to your jugular vein.
"Socialism is like a zombie. If you kill it, it always comes back to life."
No it’s not. This will break down and fall apart, in a very ugly manor. Next year pension’s will be one of the major crises . Obama tried to get these, but could not get through state barriers. Trillions in pensions, most if not all state or local pensions will fail. Private pensions inside of the US will be seized, may take a couple of years.
States cannot go bankrupt, thus they will default, just like in the early to mid 1800’s.
The Gov will continue to add excessive taxes and fees to businesses and citizens, creating more dissent.
Social security, Medicare and a whole lot of other programs are soon to be broke. Everyone believed the socialist fairy tale, while the politicians spent all the money.
Our government is and has been preparing to go to war with its citizens, stupid at best. This will destroy confidence in any Federal government that the country will break apart in a non-pretty manor. Same thing happened with Rome. Socialism was cast out after this as a complete failure.
We need to turn this around pronto.
Is there anyone who will? (Very few.)
Just the right mix of socialism and capitalism?
Big business subsumed by big government.
IOW, fascism.
Doesn’t matter if 100% of a nation’s voters vote for socialism. It is an unsustainable social organizing system which always fails. Always.
Until such time as the root basics of human nature change, it will never work.
bmp
The Fed Gov gets to print money, but states and local jurisdictions do not.
Cities, counties are currently watching their pension fund obligations come up short, and at some future time will need to either ask tax payers for more taxes to support retired workers, or to cut the pensions.
In California many govt. workers retire in their early 50s with nearly full pay, medical insurance, etc.
Private sector workers never retire, so public sector workers retire by age 55.