See the problem is, you are saying one party is better than another because one "got the job done". My problem is, it should never have been in the hands of the federal government to begin with.
They have stripped you of your own rights to your own land, and then set themselves up as the solution. And here you praise them for finely doing what should never have been in their control to do anyway.
I'm sure they are. I'm sure AIG was happy with the bailout too, until the government screwed them over. I'm sure GM was happy with the deal until they got screwed over. I'm sure Alaskans were happy with ANWR until the government screwed them over for 10 years. I'm sure your native company will be happy with the deal until they get screwed over.
Funny how everyone is ecstatic with government control until they get screwed over.
Not really. The problem is, we are very short term people. We think in spans of just a few years. But that's not how socialism works. Socialism happens over a large time frame. For example, when socialists started taking over in China, in the mid-1940s, most of the economy was in private hands. By the mid-50s, there were no completely private firms, only joint public-private firms. Within 5 to 10 years of that, there were almost no public-private ventures at all.
Point being that we and communist China are on the same path. Just at different spots. They've already gone from being the worlds largest economy in the 1900-1950s, to being the smallest from 1950s to 1970s, and back to being one of the fastest growing again.
They've tried out socialism, and had 66% of their population below the poverty line, while Hong Kong was a booming bustling economy. Now they have rejected those controls on their economy, and are following capitalism.
We on the other hand, have not had the economy crash of socialism on us yet. We still think it will somehow work. Now we are following the exact pattern China used to reach it's economy depression. Hopefully we'll figure out, like they did, that socialism sucks before we have to reach the point they did.
Yeah, we've seen so much from the government lately that gives us good hope, eh?
