A-Greg Delany

I am amazed at people who try and tell me I lived in Communism and not Socialism in the USSR.
Then they try and extol the virtues of Democrat Socialism. They give examples of the great altruistic ideals of Government hand outs!
We should examine the list of Complete Failures they use.
1. Social Security.
It was a voluntary program in 1937 and asked for 1% of peoples income to help the elderly. It was never designed to pay out. The average life expectancy at the time was age 60 and it paid out at age 65. When people started living longer they moved the goal posts many times and raised the mandatory deduction. Each time they made it harder to pay out to people in need. The real surprise is the alternate Program in the Private sector in three counties in Texas! These programs allow participants to choose their investments, the provider can not rob from the fund, The pay out is 5 times higher and the fund is yours and not the governments. If You die before retirement age on SS. You receive $251 death benefit. The private fund you get your investment back for your dependents. The Private Plan is not loaded with a Government agency full of employees to pay and pay taxpayer pensions to. They are managed on the Free Market and pay their employees themselves.
2. Medicare.
One of the highest fraud rates of any Government Program. The plan does not pay for many things and a supplemental insurance is needed to help with medical bills. It is widely unaccepted at doctors offices because of poor management and service is terrible.
Before Government intervened in free Medical that is not free. The free market set insurance rate depending on service selected. The costs were generally low and competitive. Then Government mandated Insurance regulations and minimum coverages across the board. So a man must have maternity insurance if he wants it or not. Mandated Insurance is not freedom of choice. Let the free market set price. Allow insurance companies to sell their products across State lines.
3. Free Public Schools.
They are the worst schools in history. They are scored on student averages. The averages get lower each year. The charter schools must reach minimum standards or they lose their business license. If a public school does not meet minimum standard, the Government throws more money at them . So the schools were incentivized to do poorly to make more money! The goal of these public school teacher Unions is to indoctrinate not teach children.
4. National Parks.
The cost to enter national parks pays for the upkeep, yet Government grows the Budget each year. In the 1970s. I worked at the Grand Canyon. The government used Fred Harvey corp. To run the Park and maintain the upkeep. It was a private enterprise that made a profit and it did not cost the tax payer anything! The private sector will always manage things better because there is a profit in a business run well.
People tell me that our Police, Fire Department, Roads and Schools are all because of the Federal Government.
Not true at all.
These are all paid for through local property taxes, sales taxes and bonds.
Roads for instance are mostly paid for by developers as part of their development fees.
The roads adjacent to the property being developed is the developers responsibility to improve.
I looked at the distribution of my property taxes and I am shocked at how much of it goes to schools.
70% of my tax goes to improve pubic schools.
When Charter school build and maintain their own properties, and the level of education in the privately run Charters Schools is much higher than the Federal Option!
The time has come to end this tyrannical federal government over-reach!

Tim adds:

The name of the country was Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics. NOT Communist. Communism is but the believed end of socialism.

I would add you don't even have "democratic socialism" in the countries the Lefties point to. Of all Scandinavia, for instance, only Sweden ever actually had socialism, and that only very briefly in the seventies, and they chucked it. Sweden now is more business friendly than the U.S. with lower corporate taxes and fewer regulations. The same is true in the rest of Europe.The "Capitalist" U.S. is in fact more socialistic than the "democratic socialist" countiees cited by the liberals.

Socialism brings poverty, tyranny, and despair and broken lives. It is a moral and spiritual evil. The Papacy condemned it soundly in a series of Papal Encyclicals, most especially Rerum Novarum. There is nothing moral about socialism; it is enshrining sins like theft and covetousness into law.

AND it must be imposed by force. People by their very nature seek to protect what they have. Socialism takes what people have and redistributes it, ostensibly for fairness but in reality for the benefit of those in power. That wealth is taken at the barrel of a gun. And if you complain you will pay a very severe price.

Socialism is Satan's economic system. And America is running headlong to embrace it.

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