yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

The problem with Socialism (and wealth redistribution in general) is sooner or later you run out of other people's money.

2Dragons Loc: The Back of Beyond

Margaret Thatcher summed Socialism up with those words. She cut right to the chase and eliminated the multitude of reasons "why".

Bill 45

What?

IDguy Loc: Idaho

Most writers believe the only difference between Communism and Socialism is the word itself.

2Dragons Loc: The Back of Beyond

You had to read the quote from the post that I was posting a comment on. "The problem with socialism is that eventually it runs out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher

Abo

It's not just the US... we're getting ever closer to the law of the jungle as time goes on
down here in Australia too.

Abo

No language says "yes" to the blatantly obvious as well as Russian: Daaahhhh!

Of course formerly communist Russia was "USSR"... "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"

Communism is dead, and Socialism is its stinking unburied carcass imho.

Bill 45

One of your problems in Australia is that you can't keep a PM in office. We have one big moron, you have many small morons running around.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

Unfortunately times have changed and the world has grown up per say. So if you want to immigrate to anywhere you better be saving your pennies and working 3 jobs to do so. If your country is terrible then gather up all the working class and poor and change the country. Unfortunately the United States of America due to the laziness and apathy of her citizens has allowed the federal government to much control over the States and companies, allowed a new career to be created called politician and those ladies and gentlemen have borrowed the country into just short of bankruptcy. While we still treat illegal immigrants better than our citizens occasionally or in some respects the country has no real money to spend on anything if fiscal responsibility is shown. We are on the verge of a great and unpleasant upheaval be it opposing views or very possibly the calling in or ceasing to loan the country money by its major lenders. These lenders are not within the country and they are not our ally's. China being the largest. So let's try to settle our country down pay off our debts and borrow not a cent more ever. Then we may be able to give LEGAL immigrants a hand up not a hand out.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

I happen to rub shoulders with many college students and recent grads. It appears that about half of them with massive student loan debt used the money to live off of buy a new car and live the life of Riley during the 4 or 6 years of schooling of which 25% of those chose degrees without thinking about employment. They just wanted to be whatever they dreamed. That is well and good but as with every decision one makes there are consequences. I do not believe in forgiving student loans because a lot of students payed their loans off. How is it fair to them that suffered and did the right thing. It is still very easy to become gainfully employed in this system but because it may not be your dream job or you have to start at the bottom and put in 5 or 10 years to move up the youth feel like the system is against them. The youth nowadays due to my generation and the one after mine have done our children a huge disservice. We spoiled them. We did not teach them that the world is competive and doesn't really care about you. How to repair this I have no idea but that is the root of the problem.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

Never will I help you off your soapbox. You need to spread the word.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

Please tell me the nation's that socialism is working in. I'm not trying to be aurguementive. Everyone says Sweden and Denmark. That is not true. They are NOT socialist countries. I want to look at a true socialist country and see how it works. I've never had a opportunity to do so because I have only saw the failures. Thank you

G Brown Loc: Sunny Bognor Regis West Sussex UK

There was an interesting article on Aljazzhiri:
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall more right wing governments have flourished without the fear of 'the working class' turning communist. The poor have been blamed for not working harder yet wages have not risen because the 'people' repaid banks failing...Austerity has greater effect on the poor, it also creates more poor.
House prices have increased more rapidly in the last two decades than in the previous years despite massive growth in housing. The % of young home owners is at an all time low. Companies are going bankrupt so that directors can buy out the profitable bits at discount. Those that post growth, fail to post how much debt they incurred to purchase their competitors....Often their senior management 'bail out' with a golden handshake prior to the rapid decline in company worth when banks no longer lend them new cash and they cannot continue to expand. It isn't profit that drives this: it is personal greed.

Everyone understands that there is no free money.....and beginning to realize that you cannot work your way up by your labour. BIG money is playing roulette with the stock market. Ordinary people have no clue as to who owns what. Governments are 'bailing out' a shrinking capitalism. Capitalism itself has ceased to have any conscience.

NB UK Labour Party promised to get British Telecom (Which was only recently de-nationalised) to provide free Broadband to every household...(which actually would not cost very much in new infra-structure) BT answer.....They moved their registered office off shore....prior to the election on the 12 December! Even the dumb electorate know that election promises hardly ever are based on reality and rarely get adopted.

We are only a Century from The Victorian era, When the poor were being blamed for 'being poor', disease was being blamed on the poor and social unrest was blamed on the poor...Then it was the rich industrialists that built the modern society that we live in - NOT middle management or Banking. Unfortunately the Billionaires today do not live where their money sits.

This is not just true in the UK but many other countries too.

dwermske

BS!! Joseph Stalin was a self proclaimed Democratic Socialist and look at where he took his country. Right into a Communist dictatorship with millions being murdered in the name of his form of Democratic Socialism! YES! Democratic Socialism is nothing more than a creeping form Communism wrapped up in a pretty name. Bernie Sanders is a Communist and has loved communism nearly all his life. He just calls it Democratic Socialism to make it palatable to fools that can't tell the difference.

Regarding education; spending thousands of dollars on an education that will never earn you enough money to pay it back is down right stupid. I see kids today freely borrowing money for an education that literally has no chance of enabling them to earn enough money to pay it back and then complaining about it. Actions have consequences. This lesson should have be learned early in life, not after you graduate college.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

I agree with you wholeheartedly. My generation of a lot of them have kids to much and never made them work hard to get those wants. The lesson you speak of should have been taught when they wanted an Xbox. Work and buy one. Careers used to be conciled in schools when I was young. They tested us as far as manuel dexterity and knowledge and gave use lists of careers we may be suitable for. I'm not sure if they even do that anymore. I chose my career in electronics in 1976 because I could see a very bright future. The schools back then tried to help you decide what you wanted to be and what you were actually maybe qualified to be based on testing. You could be anything you wanted but they educated you to the facts. I'm almost sure none of this is done now. Probably just fairy tales and dreams.