Comment Re:Slashkos (Score 1) 1053
It's called PUBLIC SCHOOL. Helping to make sure disadvantaged children have at least some opportunity to rise above their station in life since 1852. Yet another fine example of socialism's infinite superiority to unchecked capitalism. When run properly, (and it isn't), public education's improvement to the overall workforce's productivity and flexibility improves the general economy far more than it costs, a fact also true of higher education. Paying for your own higher education is a huge drain on the economy, and as a policy it is retained only because of corruption. The same is true of private health insurance.
'What incentive will there be to care for your own children if the state will provide a child's basic needs?' To paraphrase Barney Frank, what planet do you live on? Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you? Who asks a question like that?
I do not propose equality for all Americans. The liberal socialism implied by social works like public health care, education, and infrastructure does not suggest equality for all. It is not Marxism, it is not communism. It merely reflects the obvious fact that it is only when all members of a society have equal opportunity to achieve wealth in a capitalistic system will that system achieve maximum economic and social growth. In economic terms, free markets' ability to achieve greater results through competition are limited by the barriers to entry for that market. When it is so much easier for the child of a wealthy person to start a business or achieve success than the child of a poor person, the winner in the market is no longer decided on their individual merits. In this sense, a 'free market' economy rapidly becomes anti-competitive, insular, corrupt and ineffective.
This is basic shit. Wake the fuck up and get your head out of your emotional, fearful, brainwashed ass.
'What incentive will there be to care for your own children if the state will provide a child's basic needs?' To paraphrase Barney Frank, what planet do you live on? Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you? Who asks a question like that?
I do not propose equality for all Americans. The liberal socialism implied by social works like public health care, education, and infrastructure does not suggest equality for all. It is not Marxism, it is not communism. It merely reflects the obvious fact that it is only when all members of a society have equal opportunity to achieve wealth in a capitalistic system will that system achieve maximum economic and social growth. In economic terms, free markets' ability to achieve greater results through competition are limited by the barriers to entry for that market. When it is so much easier for the child of a wealthy person to start a business or achieve success than the child of a poor person, the winner in the market is no longer decided on their individual merits. In this sense, a 'free market' economy rapidly becomes anti-competitive, insular, corrupt and ineffective.
This is basic shit. Wake the fuck up and get your head out of your emotional, fearful, brainwashed ass.