Posted on 10/30/2008 12:32:20 PM PDT by ezfindit
Socialism cannot work because the cost of services must be collected in the form of taxes, and this is not a sustainable possibility. The reason is that since government pays for all services, neither the producer nor the consumer cares about the cost, and hence there is an uncontrolled spiral of inflation (today's medical costs are a case in point and healthcare is not yet totally socialized). Furthermore, the government has no funds or assets. It only has the funds it confiscated from its citizens. The total inefficiency of a centralized bureaucracy does not help either. Once citizens are weaned on this cradle-to-grave concept and are no longer self-reliant, they become wards of the state and will not accept any reduction of services. The government subsequently has no option but to reduce services, and as popular resistance develops State repression begins. This is the socialist cycle. It has been found to occur in every socialist state in existence to date.
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>Alpha. Omega. Barack Obama Barack. (x12)
What exactly are you trying to say?
That he’s turning himself into a religion.
You are right ‘on the money!’
Would be Dictator. He is not yet installed. But his rhetoric in his speech the other night, where he talks about what an Obama Presidency will do--as though Congress or the Courts are irrelevant--shows where his mindset focuses.
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