One of the Utopian ideas of socialism is for everyone to be more equal, and for the government to take care of us all. The left continually decries the top 1% of Americans for owning so much of the wealth, and says that proves that capitalism is crushing us all.
Let’s take a look at Sweden, one of the most well known socialists countries on Earth. The top 1% owns 40% of the wealth in Sweden. Surely if wealth spread out among classes is the measuring stick of the success of socialism, Sweden must be far better than the U.S.?
In this Cato Opinion piece by Alan Reynolds, it turns out that the top 1% in the U.S. earns 20% of the wealth. And the statistics have been been put out time and time again that show this is not a static group, but the top 1% is a constantly changing dynamic of people.
i hated this cartoon it made my kind of poor people beggers and i made my family cry because he got some spare change when my family and i have never gotten any. it made me feel like a bum.
I’m a middle of the roader. Sometimes I vote Republican, sometimes Democrat.
When it comes to the left wing redistribution of wealth, that’s where the Dems lose me. Why should someone have to support others just because he is more successful than them.
Most of the time people are poor because of the way they live their lives. Dropped out of high school, started drinking or doing drugs, just have a bad attitude about work and never goes the extra mile or for that matter the extra foot, doesn’t want to learn English, etc. While someone who is successful in most cases works harder and smarter, puts their life savings at risk to start a new company.
What is the sense of penalizing the hardest workers in order to support the worst ones. In this country it is not hard to become middle class. Graduate from High School and learn a trade or go to Junior College, and then work hard at your job and 90% of the time you will make out well. If you have a crappy boss, quit that job and find another one. Getting ahead in America is not rocket science. It just requires a good attitude and hard work.
Oh my god, you did not just say that! How dare you even think those things?! Are you prepared to walk up to a homeless man and say it’s his fault he lost his home? What will you say when he tells you that he went to college and had a good job, but his company decided to fire him to cut costs, then he got sick while he had no company insurance, then had to stop looking for a job to go to the hospital who left him with a giant bill, then got his home foreclosed because he stopped paying during the time he was out of work, and was forced to live on the streets because he had no family?
ROFL! That is the story behind every homeless person you find? More like 1 out of a thousand
So you’ve talked to 1000 homeless people, then, Ryan O?
Why does everyone like to use the term middle class? Did you know there is low class and lower class? Middle class are those who earn 200,000 a year and that’s a fact. You wont get anywhere close to middle class by just having a HS Diploma or a Trade School certificate.
Obviously you’re society is not elite enought to comprehend socialism. ignorance and propaganda cause societies to decline, and sadly this is propaganda.
Shut the fuck up you ignorant botard. If taking from others against their will to provide for the lazy or unable to work is NOT the definition of socialism, then you tell me what socialism is. You make me sick.
This is a perfect example of what our county is doing. To you “socialist” first learn to spell and second socialism is a awful path for a nation to take. Simply look at the Canadians and their health care system.
I have. Lots of people are happy because they pay less for more a more efficiant system. Also, Canada has much less homeless living on the streets. Canada is a truely messed up nation.
I love when people on boards critique others’ spelling mistakes then fuck up themselves.
“…is a awful…”
So, to you, Brandon, either learn to type, or go back to grammar school.
Well, just to let you know many people move to Canada because of the great health care system there is.
Thats interesting, because the last time i checked, this is capitalism illustrated
socialist, your an idiot.
Socialism just cannot work, look at our military. That system of “state owned” tanks and equipment just proves that it can’t work.
Or the roads and transportation systems. Those obviously socialist programs don’t work, they should all be private toll roads. Why should people who don’t drive have to pay for those that do.
Just on a side note. I know rich people, and I know poor people. And I would say in general. The poor people work much harder than the rich ones.
Which is exactly why Socialism works! Generally, poor people work harder, so they receive more benefits as compensation. If you look at Black Water, you know why private contractors in the military are a bad idea. As for roads, toll roads made by private industries are also a terrible idea. Why should people pay to go on roads just to give the greedy extra money?
I have seen the scenario illustrated above in both systems. The abuse of Capitalism has created an American health-care system that is greedy, bloated, and increasingly unaffordable. Big business is killing the health-care industry in exactly the same way that it is killing the Agriculture industry. Socialism on the other hand, is only as successful as the character and benevolence of the dictator administering it. In terms of justice and beneficence, it is not necessarily a political system that brings Hell into our lives but the values intrinsic to Hell that are practiced by those with the power to do so.
Well we know capitalism is a failure of a system as well. So maybe if everyone calms down and starts actually trying to think about solutions instead of arguing constantly so they look good for one party, something might get done. But the rich want to stay rich and I doubt no one would ever vote for a mandate like “castrate every felon” b/c usually dumb breeds dumb at a rapid pace (just look at the growth of NASCAR and why alcohol sales almost never are hit by a recession.
you all suck! why question what is ‘good’ for this society when we’re all going to die??
because of the future, we want better for our children.
True. Capitalism doesn’t work without mass unemployment. Capitalism doesn’t care about the unemployed, the sick, or any other kind of “weaker” person. Here’s an interesting detail:
Capitalists usually are, or declare themselves christians. BUT, what is closer to christian principles than socialism.Nothing. Jesus Christ himself was the first socialist. Capitalism is for those who are greedy. Socialism is about integrity, solidarity, wellfare, taking care of those who can’t take care of themselves, those who are unemployed by capitalism, socialism is about democracy, about equality, about love for the idea of equality. Capitalism is about the love for the money.
“Why should I pay to some homeless guy, he has caused he’s own problems?” You, or maybe with more chances, your children maybe in the same situation. We all are vulnerable. All we need is depression, and job cuts, and we are in the same position than the homeless man. Because we are all equal. Because we are all humans. People don’t always cause their own problems. In a country like U.S where you have to pay huge sums of money just to study in university don’t give the same starting positions to everybody, unlike here in Finland. Some children are born into poor families, and are not given the same chances in U.S. Other schools are more apreciated than others, and are not equal. Socialism is about equality. That all people are given the same rights. What is capitalism? Capitalism is class-diversity, about very rich, and very poor, about private schools, and public schools, about race-unequality, about opression of the poor, about not giving same chances to everyone, about Imperialism, as U.S foreign policy shows, Iraq, Afghanistan. About GREED. Socialism is not taking from others, that’s what capitalism is. Socialism provides equality.
YOU MUST REMEMBER THAT socialism is a different thing than communism. Communism is extreme-socialism. Soviet Union didn’t provide freedom of speech etc.
Most of nordic countries society structures, like all-equal, and money-free schools, colleges, universitys, women’s voting rights, are from Socialism, or from Social Democracy. Free schools, Multi-party systems, not 2-party systems, like in U.S( where there’s always a donkey or an elephant in lead( look at party signs)) are Socialism. Working Unions are Socialistic, Worker’s right’s are Socialistic. Human right’s are derived from Socialism, not from the conservative capitalism. Capitalism is about opression. People don’t cause their own problems, the Capitalistic Systems produces them. When U.S education is about who has the money to go to college, it’s not equal. All People should be provided with the same education and FREE EDUCATION as priority. All the fundamentalist organisations are born when there are problems and recession, poornes, unemployment.. And Americans complain about terrorism, which the capitalism
has supported in other countries, against socialist, or other goverments. Vietminh was invented by Americans. Talebans were trained by Americans in the 80’s. Iraq and Iran was supported by Americans. Now U.S is in war with the other, and close to another war with another. Capitalism is about Greed, and money, oppression. Socialism is about the idea of integrity, about equality, about giving chances to everybody. About idea of christianity, about every other loving religion, Islam, Buddhism Etc.. About love. It’s idelogy of equality. Capitalism is an ideology of money. Socialism works. Communism doesn’t.
Capitalism is about the growth of wealth. Socialism is about one group being taxed much more than another group because they have more wealth. Socialism kills initiative in a country where we have a growing class of people who have a mentality that the government should take care of them.. It might work in the Nordic countries, but the Nordic countries are smaller and more homogenized.
Capitalism also did not create the problems.. Issues outside of the state’s control created those problems.
And if you are SMART and make good grades you can usually get a scholarship to college..
In previous text, by integrity, I meaned integration. Sorry , but english isn’t my native language.