Call me crazy but I love to listen to socialist economists attempt to justify socialism as a legitimate economic strategy. Why you ask? Well, I think because I am a free-market guy through and through, always have been, ever since I started my first real business at age 12 washing aircraft at the local airport. To make sure I am up on all the latest shenanigans of the economists of socialism and their apologetic diatribes, I subscribe to several Pod Casts to the top academic socialist economists around the globe.
Recently, I was asked by a follower of the Bernie Sanders' style of socialism; "what things do the citizens have the right to demand their government provide them?" Their thought was that they had a right to education, health care, and housing and food if they couldn't afford it. They also, liked the concept of free transportation and a free Obama Phone.
Still, I ask; does anyone really have the right to "get" stuff from others? Does a large group of people have the right to vote for a proxy thief of government to take from me to give to them through taxes, which if I don't pay the government confiscates and if I still refuse and guard my stuff it will be taken by force and if I fight back, I will be shot? Things I earned, worked for. Why is that fair? How could it possibly fair. Where is the common decency? Why is it that everyone demands I give up my individual liberty for the whole - when if everyone does that no one is served but the Borg itself - a giant bureaucracy that grows so big, it eventually no longer needs the people? Hint: when socialism finally fails it often turns to Communism, when it starts to fail it turns on the people who up-rise. Cite: History.
I don't much care for other forms of government (communism, kingdoms, dictatorships or socialis) and for good reason. You see, I want freedom to choose (Milton Friedman style). My social contract includes, I have the freedom and liberty to pursue my life-experience and try to get the most out of it - and as long as I am not hurting anyone else - I should be free to pursue those goals, dreams, and interests. I don't want to be told how to think, what to think, and I will judge what I see, hear, feel, taste, touch.
When the individual is served in this way, we are a society of strength, where every link in the chain is annealed the best it can possibly be and together we are the stronger for it. If we demand the individual give up self for a committee driven Kumbaya dictate for the whole, then the entire whole will be rotten for every grain is tarnished. Please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow is an Online Author, his latest eBooks are about The International Economy. Lance Winslow is semi-retired and Founder of the Online Think Tank http://www.WorldThinkTank.net - You may contact Lance Winslow by email for dialogue, discourse, discussion, or debate on interesting topics.
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