[gaijin]

WHY look to the past?

You can get the lesson from the present.

We CURRENTLY HAVE socialism inside the USA —on Indian Reservations.

The land is held IN COMMON, ergo entrepreneurial young Indians can’t secure loans to start businesses. How would the bank seize a house owned by an ENTIRE TRIBE..?

Some years ago I read that on the whole Navajo nation there are ZERO stores to buy shoes from. What, they don’t wear shoes..?

Moccaisins for tourists —that’s not the same.

An economist can argue some military bases also features aspects of socialism, and theft of property and various scams are a yuge problem, there, too.

Which is cleaner —YOUR bathroom or a public one..?

[Vigilanteman]

Good points. It is also a fact that Denmark’s brand of socialism works far better than the Venezuelan model. The Danes have a fairly homogeneous population where sponging off the system is highly frowned upon and industriousness is prized. Those who deviate far from this norm are encouraged to leave Denmark.

[caver]

Interesting stuff about the Indian reservations.

[AndyJackson]

An economist can argue some military bases also features aspects of socialism

The US military is entirely a socialist organization, except that it is charged with producing nothing. And no one was more frustrate than Donald Rumsfeld trying to mobilize for Iraq War I when he discovered that the central military planners would have gotten all required logistics in theater in about 2033. There was a rapid ramp-up of the leasing of commercial assets - planes and ships to transport stuff quickly.

I wouldn't take the US military as a model for running an efficient economy. No one who relies on DOD acquisitions for equipment has a good word to say about the efficiency of the DOD acquisition process.

[Cheesehead in Texas]

I think there was a Payless in Shiprock.

[mosesdapoet]

We CURRENTLY HAVE socialism inside the USA —on Indian Reservations.(snip)

Certain tribes were practicing that, way before Marx ,and if examined beside not having a written language may be the reason why those cultures never developed into individual nations when the Europeans landed here.

[frank ballenger]

Which is cleaner —YOUR bathroom or a public one..?

You get a twofer joke bonus:

"You might be a redneck if you marvel at how gas stations get their rest rooms so clean."--Jeff Foxworthy

and

The Odd Couple, (TV series one) Felix to Oscar: "Your bathroom would have been condemned by most gas stations."