Does anyone in the U.S. actually know that socialism involves simply taking care of the people?

Question

It seems from the answers to the question about "sharing the wealth", it seems that Americans believe that all who have nothing are lazy and the concept of sharing the wealth seems to scare the ones who still have jobs....Do they not know that the Walmart and the McD's, and in Canada Tim Horton's, economy is rising faster than any other sector of the economy and corporate wages are rising as fast while the middle class jobs like General Motors etc are disappearing? And certainly listening to the world's greatest source of news, sic sic, they must know about "outsourcing"?

Answer 1

Bruce, do you think people are really that stupid, socialism involves taken the hard earned money from those who work hard, make sacrifices and hard but good decisions, and then given it to someone who would not work hard, refused to sacrifice to get ahead and made really bad decisions due to laziness of mind and or spirit.

Not certain what country you live in, but AMerica is a capitalist country, the antithesis to the evil of socialism. You and your followers are evil incarnate and your vile and despicable lies will cause you eternal damnation.

Take your marxists lies and shove them.

Answer 2

It depends on the degree of socialism. Nobody says that socialism is bad because taking care of people is bad. The problem is, that a lot of people might abuse a system that is designed to take care of the unlucky out of lazyness. Just look at Germany. A lot of people lived off unemployment aid if it payed roughly the same as minimum wage (and it did and more if you had family).
Also socialism keeps some people from affronting problems and partecipating into growth etc.. For exampel why emigrate to a location where you could find a job if you are beeing taken care of where you live ? Or why start a buisness etc.. While socialism is a good idea if say private healthcare fails universal healthcare could be implemented, it should be kept at a minimum.
Just think of the black comunity which was starting to stabilize without outside help. Some geniuses in Washnigton though it might be a good idea to give it all a boost with money taking away from a lot of them any incentive to make their own money.

Answer 3

Socialism does not work. Pay attention to history. It does not work. And the main reason is people under that type of government eventually figure out that the fruits of their labor get taken away and given to someone else. Communist USSR fell when everything deteriorated. Communist China is experiencing a magnificent turn around, due to free enterprise. In the US the economy has never been better. We have the lowest unemployment rate. We have more people working than ever before. Incomes are up. People are illegally sneaking into the country so they can work and earn a living. You cannot knock success. The value of the free enterprise system is that a person has unlimited opportunity.

Answer 4

Socialism is NOT just "taking care of the people." It is the operation by the state of businesses in which it has no expertise. The classic example is Pemex in Mexico, which has an inflated bureaucracy, outsize costs, and decreasing efficiency and production. As for the US, GM's auto production may be falling, but Toyota is making cars in the US which it is selling at a good profit. The principal error that advocates of socialism make is to fail to realize that trade creates value. Karl Marx blew this one big time in Das Kapital (which is inexplicable, as there is a footnote in the book referring to a paper on the subject), and his whole thesis fails because it was based on this one incorrect assumption. Marx's error is the most expensive mistake that anyone has ever made in the entire history of the human race: the cost has run to trillions of dollars and tens of millions of lives, and is continuing to increase every day.

Answer 5

wait a minute are you an American? because in case you didn't know we have a division in our government that involves democrats and republicans both of which believe in different ways of life, wealth and of course social politics. Therefore, not all of us believe in the same thing. And yes those with half a brain know how socialism works

Answer 6

No somewhere during or after the second world war, Americans equated socialism with communism, probably Jos. McCarthy and those hearings of his.

The AMA championed it too when Canada ' socialized' our medical system in the mid sixties and spread the rumour that there'd be wait lines and you couldn't pick your doctor etc. I KNOW because my aunt who was a nurse in the US said this all the time , no matter how much we showed her it wasn't true. Then you had the renegade doctors who ran to US in the 80s, 90s and afterwards who still permeate that image. So how do you expect the average american to understand it , when supposedly educated professionals don't get it.

Answer 7

Eventually there will be no middle class the way we are going now. Socialism doesn't guarantee the freedoms we have now. I don't want the government telling me where to live and how big my house can be so that the lazy people can have what I worked for.

Answer 8

Georges Clemenceau, a French statesman, physician and journalist, is attributed with saying that "any man who is not a socialist at 20 has no heart, but any man who is still a socialist at 40 has no brain".

There is a grain of truth here, no doubt...

Answer 9

Nothing concerning this issue is "simple". Calling socialism "simply taking care of the people" is naivety at it's best.

Answer 10

well its going out some where, over seas maybe ,yes, no