A lot of people throw that word around (socialists) as yet another boogieman term; but there is a sad truth about a lot of people, and corporations, who want to take big chances for the possibility of big returns, but when those chances fail they want the government to bail them out.
Big money con jobs are typically done BY socialists. There will be angry retorts I know, but before you reply please have an explanation for the net worths of most of the long term congressmen on the left.
Check out “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth”: explained in an 1879 book by social theorist and economist Henry George —a treatise on the questions of why poverty accompanies economic and technological progress and why economies exhibit a tendency toward cyclical boom and bust.
A truly “purely socialist” system has never worked. Neither has a “purely capitalist” system. And Communism is a joke.The most sustainable system is capitalist-based, with enough Socialist aspects to take care of all of its citizens (public roads, military, schools, etc.). However, “enough” is rarely enough. Politicians want to be reelected … and they soon realize they can use taxpayer money to buy votes. It goes downhill from there.
The only joke present in this lame excuse for a ‘toon is that capitalism and socialism are binary opposites, the first is pure while the second is evil, and they are mutually exclusive. Neither economic systems, nor the individual humans who operate within them, are remotely this simplistic.
David_the_CAD over 1 year ago
A lot of people throw that word around (socialists) as yet another boogieman term; but there is a sad truth about a lot of people, and corporations, who want to take big chances for the possibility of big returns, but when those chances fail they want the government to bail them out.
chaosed2 over 1 year ago
Big money con jobs are typically done BY socialists. There will be angry retorts I know, but before you reply please have an explanation for the net worths of most of the long term congressmen on the left.
Oh Really? over 1 year ago
Check out “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth”: explained in an 1879 book by social theorist and economist Henry George —a treatise on the questions of why poverty accompanies economic and technological progress and why economies exhibit a tendency toward cyclical boom and bust.
Havel over 1 year ago
Corporate welfare, the only right wing approved welfare.
Paul D Premium Member over 1 year ago
A truly “purely socialist” system has never worked. Neither has a “purely capitalist” system. And Communism is a joke.The most sustainable system is capitalist-based, with enough Socialist aspects to take care of all of its citizens (public roads, military, schools, etc.). However, “enough” is rarely enough. Politicians want to be reelected … and they soon realize they can use taxpayer money to buy votes. It goes downhill from there.
Oh Really? over 1 year ago
Progress and poverty
lsnrchrd.1 Premium Member over 1 year ago
The only joke present in this lame excuse for a ‘toon is that capitalism and socialism are binary opposites, the first is pure while the second is evil, and they are mutually exclusive. Neither economic systems, nor the individual humans who operate within them, are remotely this simplistic.
T... over 1 year ago
Rolls Royce liberals…