Mitja Podreka wrote:
Freddy Freeloader wrote:
You truly have confused totalitarianism with socialism.
No. You don't recognize socialism put into practice as different
than socialism by theory. Even communism, in theory, is a peaceable,
benign, good for its citizens, decentralized form of government.
It's proven itself to be just the opposite everytime it's been put
into practice. Socialism, put into practice, is a high taxes,
government runs everything, highly centralized form of government.
Many "western" European countries had or still have strong socialist
parties in their parliaments and/or socialist governments. Some of
them, Italy for example, also have quite strong and successful
communist parties.
The terms socialism and communism were vandalised by the authoritarian
governments and individuals, in order to legitimate their authorities.
In fact this governments had no more in common with socialism and
communism than GNU/Linux has with Microsoft.
Following the widely accepted "democratic" rationale of socialism and
communism we could, for example, say that Debian GNU/Linux is a bad
thing. The most common OS (socialism/communism) is Windows
(authoritarian state/government). Knowing that Windows is not of very
good moral and technical standards we can then "democratically"
conclude that OS is a bad thing. Because Debian GNU/Linux is an OS it
must then also be a bad thing.
And to finish the discourse properly. We should also recognise
democracy put into practice as different than democracy by theory.
When will you socialists learn to understand that the extremely high
taxes and all the government programs you have are all forms of
control? Socialist governments are about control of the citizenry. All
these government programs are about making the people dependent on the
state for everything, rather than making them self-reliant, and just
providing the framework for their people to succeed.
No government, anywhere, can do things as efficiently as the private
sector. The amount of waste and corruption grows as the government
becomes more powerful too.
I went to work for the Veterans Administration a few years (16) ago, for
about a year.... I worked as an HVAC technician for one of their
hospitals. What a joke that place was. They were paying a "journeyman"
HVAC tech more than the journeyman techs in the area, and this fool
couldn't even interpret a set of gauges or troubleshoot his way out of a
paper bag. He'd have been fired after a day or two on the job in any
HVAC service organization I've ever worked for because nothing, and I
mean nothing, he ever worked on worked after he touched it. The
hospital was having to call in private firms to actually get things
done. His method of "repairing" an A/C was to go tell the women that
were complaining it was too hot in their offices was that they must be
having hot flashes. He'd do that after he "adjusted" the thermostat in
their room so it would read a few degrees lower than it actually was.
So, government agencies run efficiently? Don't make me laugh. Public
schools efficient and well-run? Don't make me laugh. I was far from
the brightest student in the parochial system I attended up to the end
of high school. I graduated high school with a 3.2 GPA. After I
graduated I spent 7 years in heavy drug abuse without using a single
skill I had learned in high school. At the end of that time I took a
test designed to show where I was, skill wise, with the current crop of
male public high school graduates. Know where I scored? The 95th
percentile. That's very telling. A student with a 3.2 GPA, seven years
of heavy drug abuse, and no preparation before testing, was in the 95th
percentile of all male students graduating from public schools the year
before. That's a very telling commentary on the pathetic quality of
education those poor kids received from our public system.
The way to really improve our country is to keep the government out of
just about everything. Government has a role to play in the lives of
its people, but that role isn't that of a nanny who creates citizenry
dependent on government for everything in their lives.
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