Come in, enjoy this little blaze I've got going. It's a beautiful night, the weather is fine, but I'm at unease. I'm a little angry, but mostly I'm completely amazed at the ignorance of people in that wonderful country below us. Oh yeah I stole some home made curied mayonnaise from that crazy Cenobyte for her misuse of a word. Enjoy it mixed into this flaked turkey I have. Crackers too.
Ok so for the past two weeks we've had to listen to McCain/Palin denounce socialism like it's some vicious disease and now I listen to Caribou Barbie make a personal attack on socialism. She claims it's used in other countries where they destroy entrepenurialism and grows government. She then used a logical falicy in saying that since Obama wants to 'redistribute wealth' then he's going to make more government and to pay for that he'll have to actually raise taxes. She also made the claim that those countries that use socialism are countries where people are not actually free.
So let's break this down. Socialism as I understand it is imposing a social order that is based off of the equality of man and that we're all responsible for each other. As a collective we're far greater and stronger than individuals clawing for our own personal gain. Socialism employed in this way would actually create more job growth and overall prosparity, increasing the overall 'pie' that we have so that everyone can benefit from it to a greater degree. This has always been the case but since pure capitalists see the threat to their personal greed, they make this false claim that business would suffer.
A buddy of mine who's business went under didn't go under because of socialism, in fact he is very much a socialist in how he ran it. No, he went under because a bigger business overextended itself, and in a capitalist system you can always claim a 'oops' and walk away from your debts. 30 grand my friend lost because of another's greed. In fact all these problems the US is experiencing in their markets is due to unfettered capitalism. Greed driven political systems dehumanize people and place value where it shouldn't be, on a non-real idea of money that is centered in bits of paper that are essentially without value. It wasn't socialism that caused that market crash however it was the very socialist idea of using government money to prop up that market that is apparently going to save them.
Now let's address that claim that socialism is used in countries that aren't free. Well look around you fellow Canadians. Do you feel more or less free than the United States? It'd be a bit of a spectrum but I think for the most part we're just as free as they are, and we employ a great many socialist ideals. Canada is a left leaning country. What about France? They've been a whole heap of free for many many years. Those folks are the rulers of socialism. They also have a healthy economy and are a strong part of the EU.
Now the more taxes and growing government? Do these people not look at what their own party has done? The USA has had the largest governmental increase since The New Deal. Something like a 30% growth in government departments and services. Mostly associated with removing the freedom of their own people.
I'm also listening to McCain speak of buying bad mortgages to save the housing market. This is in essence a completely socialist ideal. Do these people have any concept of reality, of the things they say? Do they know that their claims and jibes are completely untruthful? I'm so sick of politics in general, including our recent election and the false ideas that political parties implant in the public to induce fear. I've run into so many people without any real concept of how these things influence one another, that the problem isn't entirely on the politicians side. It's us too folks, we're not out there seperating the lies they tell from the truth of the situation.
So here's the deal. The public starts paying attention to the real issues that happen around us. We start reading and researching the way of the world around us, and become much better informed. If we as a public demand more from the politicians and media around us then perhaps we'll get better. Of course it is much easier to sit around and make excuses so feel free to do that too. Just don't expect anything to get better.
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