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bigdog wrote:I believe 100% in socialism. My husband and I both receive social security checks into our bank accounts every month. My husband receives a check from the VA into his bank account every month. I receive a retirement check from the State of Florida into my bank account every month.
When we drive to the doctor's office on a road paid for by the government from my taxes and when we receive our bills from that doctor they are incredibly small. We have both medicare and a supplemental plan that is partly paid by the government and it also pays most of the cost of our prescription drugs. We don't worry about someone hitting us over the head and taking our drugs away on the way home from the pharmacy because we know we can always call a policeman to help, and when he comes he will not send us a bill. Sometimes my husband just goes to the VA for his medical care, and then the only bill we get is for meds. No doctor bills at all for him. I'm pretty sure the government is paying those doctors. All of our kids went to public schools until they got into college and it cost nothing. It would have been very nice if we hadn't had to help them pay for those college expenses, but that would have been socialism, right? Sounds to me like the socialistic stuff costs a lot less than those capitalistic colleges do.
Without socialism, a lot of old people would be starving on the streets today. I'll guarantee you, the churches we have around today wouldn't be feeding them. They believe that if you don't work, you don't eat.
Did you ever consider you have received and will eventually receive way more benefits from your life on the government teat than you've ever really paid in taxes?
Not putting you down personally for it ... I myself chose a career among the Nobless d'epee and subsequently the Noblesse de robe (I prefer those terms to "the government teat"
) . Once you added up all of my salary, benefits, job security, etc. I made as much or more than many doctors even ... and without ever having even completed my Bachelor's degree. I saw the advantages early on for one coming from my station in life of choosing to be one of "the king's men" & jumped on it. It's kind of like the Roman Legionnaires who received a big monetary payment and plot of land after 25 years back in the day (if they survived 25 years as a Legionnaire, that is!). But that wasn't the case for the vast majority of Romans, was it? And certainly would not have been sustainable.
Now I don't regret my life on the government teat one bit ... sure was good to me. Never got rich at it and never expected to .... but was able to become the man of (modest) leisure in my fifties as expected. But I recognize also what an uncommon thing that is for the vast majority in the private sector.
Now I'm certainly not arguing against all government programs or functions (social security, roads, police, etc) But let me ask you this .... how is it you propose it would be economically sustainable if we extended those benefits we accrued as government "servants" (lol) to the entire rabble of commoners in our society? How would you finance such a thing? Eat the rich?
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