2009-09-14, 06:03 PM
Quantact Wrote:Socialism is a government that is trusted to distribute the taxpayer's moneys more than capitalism. It is big government. The very definition of socialism, and the liberals' drive towards socialism, is to increase the size and scope of the government beyond what the current capitalist system has. If all politicians are crooks, which I think we can agree on, then kindly explain to me why the fuuck give those crooks MORE power and MORE of our money? In capitalism, a lot of those functions rest in the hands of private industry, be it a company like Kraft, or the Coca Cola company, or McDonalds. There is a very big check on private industry -- if a company fuucks up, it goes out of business and gets replaced by companies that take its market share. Socialism retards that because the industries get bailed out for being incompetent -- and true to form, it is Obama, in his socialist buttfuucking, that is bailing out $hit companies that should be allowed to die.
Take Ford for example. There are people on this forum from Detroit, and they had a nice long discussion about how Ford workers get drunk on the assembly line, (that is, while making cars,) they cannot be fired due to their union, and Obama is now giving those retards taxpayer money to bail them out from their own incompetence. Ford in the United States is widely considered a second-rate car manufacturer, and only the die-hard "buy American" people are buying from them at this point, instead of Toyota, Honda, etc. Ford and Obama is what you'll get from socialism, not Ford going bankrupt and being replaced by companies that know how to do their job. Thank you, but keep your socialism in Sweden, and you can take Ford there while you're at it.
America's education system is #1, not Sweden. I don't know where you get this $hit. America's K-12 blows chunks, but the COLLEGES here are so good that everyone from everywhere in the world -- be it Japan, Africa, or Europe -- wouldn't mind coming to a good American uni to complete their education. England has Oxford and Cambridge, France has the Sorbonne, Japan has the University of Tokyo. America has roughly 50 schools of that caliber, (from Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford on down,) and in my uni, (Georgetown,) there WERE exchange students on programs from places like the University of Tokyo. Why would those elite students go on exchange programs to inferior schools? Put simply, if America's education is second rate, why is America the dominant force in the world's economy? What magical force is making American babies into 1st rate lawyers, doctors, businessmen, if their educational system is so bad?
I don't think all politicians are crooks.. and if I'm not mistaken didn't we bail out several companies that were "to big to fail" because of their supposed need in a Capitilistic market.. and didn't those same companies with their "capitaistic" power just end up letting the companies fail and running with that same money we gave them? Socialism would have allowed for control over where that money could have been spent instead of allowing the companies to just do w/e the hell they wanted...
Also idk why you keep saying "Obama" as if no other politician (Bush) has ever tried to bail out another company.. I also don't see how that is socialism considering most of that money comes from "other country" based loans and those April Taxes we pay.. it's not the money that's taken from a pay check which is where the socialist taxes come from. Also idk why your acting as if the workers are to blame for Ford failing.
Lastly please don't put words in my mouth... when a person says "one of the best" it usually means that something is high ranked.... not ranked the highest of the highest...