The Cellar - View Single Post

Urbane Guerrilla · 07-11-2007, 10:12 PM

Dana, darling, those affiliations still mean you're NOT an economic literate. Sorrreeee.

Read Hazlitt, for starters.

You'll find a LOT of Americans thoroughly down on and vehemently opposed to Socialism because we understand, however inchoately, that it simply won't work anywhere near as well as laissez-faire capitalism, and we've watched the socialist programs of the socialist welfare states gradually sink to the ground. Nobody can get rich under socialism except the few exceptional artists -- who often have to shield their wealth from the revenue officials of their own countries and keep the lucre offshore. In capitalism, far more people can get rich because there's far less interference and the US is pretty much without a class structure designed to impose glass ceilings and other impediments to self-betterment.

We end up doing much good by doing damned well. You could have this too -- at one time you did -- but your nation has to get thoroughly tired of the failed promises of the Welfare State first and not so much overthrow, as throw over, all that.

07-11-2007, 10:12 PM	#23
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Dana, darling, those affiliations still mean you're NOT an economic literate. Sorrreeee. Read Hazlitt, for starters. You'll find a LOT of Americans thoroughly down on and vehemently opposed to Socialism because we understand, however inchoately, that it simply won't work anywhere near as well as laissez-faire capitalism, and we've watched the socialist programs of the socialist welfare states gradually sink to the ground. Nobody can get rich under socialism except the few exceptional artists -- who often have to shield their wealth from the revenue officials of their own countries and keep the lucre offshore. In capitalism, far more people can get rich because there's far less interference and the US is pretty much without a class structure designed to impose glass ceilings and other impediments to self-betterment. We end up doing much good by doing damned well. You could have this too -- at one time you did -- but your nation has to get thoroughly tired of the failed promises of the Welfare State first and not so much overthrow, as throw over, all that. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.