The world is suffering a socialist zombie attack

[redrumloa]

http://www.cnbc.com/id/37570408

According to Colas, policymakers have been trying to do too much by socializing losses among taxpayers over generations.

While this may be harmless on the surface, as it “spreads the pain”, it destroys market confidence (indicative by the equity market sell-off, and flee from euro zone assets in recent weeks.)

Instead, Colas argues that policymakers should be fending off financial crises like they would fend off a zombie attack: save those people you can, and resign many to die.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

If your old mum can no longer look after herself you could just leave her to die or you could lend her a hand helping her with the things that she can't do any more (just as she helped you when you couldn't look after yourself). If you help her then you have chosen socialism.

If, it turns out, you don't have the necessary skills or the time but you hire someone to look after her, that's still socialism.

If the person you hired to look after your mum turned out to actually be working for the local crime family and did nothing but lock her in the bathroom then stole all the silverware and sold the furniture and tricked your mum into withdrawing all her savings and signing over all her investments - well, then you have the US government.

All governments are like this because they tend to serve the wealthy and powerful and they work to transfer public wealth to private hands. I single out the US government because it supposedly has higher ideals. However, the price of freedom is vigilance - watching American Idol is NOT vigilance. Not voting is abdication and not knowing the person you are voting for is abdication and not participating in voting for the candidates in primaries is abdication and not researching the issues yourself rather than just listening to your pastor is abdication and falling for labels like "liberal" or "socialist" (philosophies that got one guy nailed to a cross 2000 years ago when they didn't even know what those words were) is abdication.

If you don't like the direction the country is going in then change it but it'll take 30 years at least. That's how long it took to break the country. Usually fixing stuff is harder but then again the motivation may be greater.

 

[cecilia]

I'm one of those horrible socialist:

I drive my mom and aunt to their doctor's appointments and food shopping.

because of me the world is going to hell

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

I'm one of those horrible socialist:

I drive my mom and aunt to their doctor's appointments and food shopping.

because of me the world is going to hell

There ought to be a law against unlicensed individuals from doing such things. It's like stealing the stale bread crusts from the mouths of health service provider CEOs.

 

[cecilia]

I'm one of those horrible socialist:

I drive my mom and aunt to their doctor's appointments and food shopping.

because of me the world is going to hell

There ought to be a law against unlicensed individuals from doing such things. It's like stealing the stale bread crusts from the mouths of health service provider CEOs.

I'm sure the "republicans" are working on that right now!
:hammer: