Posted on 08/09/2018 6:17:50 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Socialism: Since the Democratic Party took a turn for the worse toward so-called democratic socialism, the party's leading lights have laid the promises on pretty thick. Free Medicare for all! Guaranteed income! Guaranteed jobs! Subsidized housing! Free college! Universal pre-school! Wow, and all for free.
Well, not exactly. In a devastating piece that appeared on the left-of-center web site Vox (to its credit), Manhattan Institute fellow Brian Riedl went through the simple math of what free actually costs. It's a lot.
It's not just the free aspect, but the fact that the democratic socialists have made so many promises that must be paid for that will make it so tough to swallow for most voters.
Riedl looked at the 10-year costs of all the various promises made by Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and other self-described democratic socialists. He was as generous as could be in his estimates, often accepting the democratic socialists' cost estimate even when it was patently and absurdly too low. It's quite a laundry-list of promises with enormous costs: "Free college" ($807 billion); Social Security expansion ($188 billion); single-payer health care ($32 trillion); guaranteed jobs at $15 per hour plus benefits ($6.8 trillion); infrastructure ($1 trillion); student loan debt forgiveness ($1.4 trillion).
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
VENEZUELA has FREE almost everything!
The END RESULT?????? It’s always the same with Socialism....
The people HAVE NOTHING!
WHY? Socialism is based on all lies and deception.
Just like today’s MEDIA and their DEMOCRAT minions.....
Democratic Socialism: Where the voter gets to choose their brand of misery.
#FreeSh!tCosts$
Misery For the People.
Misery lives company. Lots of people with less get their yayas trying to stick it to people who have a bit more. The folks with lots more will rarely get stuck, but that’s okay as long as someone else does.
You just can't get it.
Unless you're rich enough.
The National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, NAZI Party
The "new" US Democrat Socialist Party = ???
Better question: What person with a single neuron still firing didn't know Socialism is not only costly, it's destructive.
Margaret Thatcher, for one.
Love that...is that your creation?
Unlike Venezuela, we can crank the printing presses up to 11, and the rest of the world will have little choice but to grumble and go along.
I’m afraid we’re going to try it.
The scary thing is that there are many, many people who are going to vote for this “socialism dream”, because they run on 100% emotions and zero fact based decisions. We all see them, they are the ones who, when asked “who will pay for all this” will just escalate and yell “rich people and corporations”. They lack the ability to think using reason and fact, and they are going to show up at the polls and vote for what “feels good” to them.
Nope. Can’t take credit for that one. Found it over at The_Donald subforum on Reddit.
Eventually, the people who work simply will decide it is not worth it to work hard, to innovate and to create in order to support someone else who contributes little or nothing to the public good. Once that threshold is crossed, the destruction of our economy and way of life will accelerate and become unstoppable. By then, the socialists (communists) will have seized control of all levels of government and will not hesitate to maintain control by force, if necessary, or by nationalizing key industries, including farming, and implementing “Five Year Plans” a la Stalin.
I’ve gotta photoshop a real picture of her with that sign! Thanks for posting it...:)
One thing about Democrat Socialists, I think in the end they do (as a writer in the article mentions) want to destroy our free markets (I hate to use the word capitalism because it’s a term coined by Marx and Engels in Das Capital) so they don’t actually care about the costs.
Bearing that in mind I think there are two ways to come at Democratic Socialists other than the cost aspect. The first is to ask them if they can name a socialist country wherein the people have more liberty, freedom and rights than we do here. They may say something like Sweeden or another Scandinavian country, but if you look closely at these countries, they are in fact not socialists at all!!
The other point I would make with them is that if you destroy our free market they have to come to the logical conclusion that it will destroy us as the economic and world power that we currently are. Play that out, we recede from the world stage and they would have to agree that power abhors a vacuum. Some country or many countries would vie to take our place. What does that lead to? War, misery etc... If we collapsed, it could be argued that another world war could be on the horizon. One that could potentially end with nuclear engagements.
The American Socialist Workers and Ignorami Party ?
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