Quote Originally Posted by xblackdogx
The capitalists want you to believe that socialism works even less well. Who does it work less well for? You have to wonder if the 42 million without health insurance would be covered if this was a socialist society, of course they would be. Socialism is worse for those who seek, and do, control us and better for the masses of people.
but if you use China and the U.S.S.R. as examples of socialism, you can see how it's easier said than done. In a very idealistic sense, socialism sounds great -- but there's no practical way to implement its tenets. In practice, socialism is a far better tool for those who seek to control us than capitalism is. In the U.S.S.R. you had people rioting in the street over loaves of bread, in the PRC you have the most inefficient country imaginable. Internal corruption in these countries was/is higher in those countries than it ever was here. Additionally, people as individuals had far fewer "rights" than we have.

I expect there to be some form of nat'l health insurance within the next 5-10 years anyways.