[ClearCase_guy]

It says everything that you can look around the world for over 100 years and see nothing but disaster.

Over 100 million dead because of socialism.
Country after country devastated by socialism.
Most recently: Venezuela and South Africa.
It just doesn’t work.

Leftist response: It works in Scandinavia!
Scandinavian response: We abandoned socialism a long time ago, because it doesn’t work.

The Leftists who push this stuff aren’t actually looking for anything which “works”; they are looking for a system that gives them “power over others”. Which is where the mass murder comes in. And it always comes in.

[GOPJ]

“We will nationalize the land and place it under the control of a worker state," its national chair, Comrade Irwin Jim, the general secretary of the Union of Metalworkers, declared. "Under a Socialist government, no one will own land, therefore allowing for the worker-controlled state to decide how land is allocated, farmed and used." It won't just be mass murder - it'll also be mass starvation... I DO NOT want to save these people from their own stupidity and greed... not our people - not our treasure.

[rxsid]

"Leftist response: It works in Scandinavia!
Scandinavian response: We abandoned socialism a long time ago, because it doesn’t work."

And if there was no United States military protecting them, they would have to at least double their own military spending from their current 1 - 1.5% of GDP. [1]

That of course would leave a lot less to pay for their "free" health care or university.