2009-09-14, 05:00 PM
Quantact Wrote:Ok, how about you work for a living and give all of it up "to good," and live in a cardboard box, and I work for a living and use it to buy food for my table and a roof over my head and education for my children. You're a socialist, I am a capitalist. The difference between you and me is you are telling me what to do with my money, and I am telling MYSELF what to do with my money, and that is none of your fuucking business. That's why I am not a socialist; using the government to strong-arm money from hard-working people to feed the riff-raff is what socialism is all about. In capitalism helping the needy is called "charity," and there is no strong-arming involved. I am quite sure that in America more "charity" gets handed out than was handed out in Soviet Russia, that is unless you count crooked politicians pocketing it all as "charity."
Yes because all socialism has brought to Sweden is one of the best educational system in the world, National health care, one of the longest life expectancy rates in the world, and one of the lowest inflation rate in all European countries... but I suppose the cardboard boxes they live in sort of balances them out
Last time I checked that tax money is used to help the hard workers with the education, health care, and housing... which if you consider it.. is what that extra percent in taxes is used for anyway
Oh also you should probably know that your ability to spend or not spend money is the same thing that's currently screwing our capitalistic country over because people are scared shiitless to spend a dime on anything.... and if that continues our economy will fail...
Is that last sentence not applying to the USA as if you're saying America has no crooked politician or am I reading that wrong?