Daily Kos Wants Us All to Fly the Friendly Skies for Free

NewsBusters ^ | March 31, 2013 | 15:34 | Tim Graham

[Olog-hai]

The socialists at the Daily Kos are idealists, not pragmatists. For example, the blogger known as “Troubadour” thinks everything must be “public” and “enable and promote the rights and access of each individual citizen, since otherwise government merely functions as a monopolistic private entity rather than a representative of all.”

In Kos-land, everything is public. Nothing is really privately owned. Take this example: this blogger not only thinks that every health procedure should be free, but there should be free airline travel:

Public transit has to be free of charge, and access allocated only by the non-market economic mechanisms—queue, lottery, or command, or some combination thereof. Moreover, there needs to be public air travel. We built the air infrastructure, we own it, it's ours, and we each have an absolute right to use it. It should be practical to travel from one corner of this country to another without paying a single dime toward transit. …

[KarlInOhio]

Moreover, there needs to be public air travel. We built the air infrastructure, we own it, it's ours, and we each have an absolute right to use it. It should be practical to travel from one corner of this country to another without paying a single dime toward transit. …

We're the ones who built the farm infrastructure so that #$($#( smug little red hen must turn over "her" bread for the common good.

[laplata]

I agree. I think North Korea would be perfect for him.

[Political Junkie Too]

Buses are public transport, too, but someone has to build the bus, someone has to maintain the bus, someone has to build the bus stops and terminals, someone has to manage the ticketing for the buses, etc.

Are buses free?

And I'm not just talking about mass transit buses, but also the Greyhound buses that travel from city to city.

I think this moron does want them to work for "free." They won't need any income because the buses and planes, and food and rent, and clothes are also free. He wants to live in a utopian society where everything is free because everyone has the same needs but different skills, so they all work to their best abilities in exchange for free consumption of their daily needs.

-PJ