Posted on 06/01/2015 7:38:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
I thought Bernie’s economic plan was to reduce the number of brands of underarm deodorant and tennis shoes.
It is stunning that Europe has learned from it socialist experiment gone bad, but the U.S., led by its Socialist-In-Chief, Barrack Obama, sadly has steered to the left. Socialism is a failed philosophy.
It fails to account for the human tendency to free-ride on others, or the propensity for governments to dole out favors to the politically well connected and get ever larger and less efficient. Socialist economies by definition do not innovate, do not allocate capital efficiently, and tend to reward risk avoidance rather than risk taking. Socialist systems also tend to engender a massive political class that sucks an ever larger share of productive output into the hands of those who wield power.
Yes, free-markets and capitalism have problems which can and should be addressed with reasonable regulation. But there is no way to regulate bloated, power-hungry, resource devouring socialist systems which are driven by the same self-interests as capitalism, only without the free-market to act as a check or balance on that power. The U.S. is swinging to the left at its own peril.
You could (should?) make the nude beach comparison your tag line.
That freakin’ Commie Sanders should be in the Federation Council, the Russia counterpart to the U.S. Senate.
Deodorant spray? Bernie is delusional.
“It would essentially be government-induced competition.”
That is hilarious, it is as self contradictory as prune juice induced constipation.
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