[Onelifetogive]

Does the Left need more proof that socialism doesn't work?

We on the right think socialism is a failure because individuals cannot strive and accomplish and reap the benefits of their own effort. Those who advocate socialism think it is a success because they think they will be the elites who use the system to control and manipulate their inferiors while siphoning off a confortable living for themselves.

In the Soviet Union, there was always little food on the shelves for the common man, but the Communist Party members lived like kings. Was the system a failure? Depends on whether you were a Party member or not...

[ArmyTeach]

Sounds like what the administration has in mind for us. Extravagant White House parties for 4000 feasting on Hawaiian barbecue flown from Hawaii at taxpayer expense. We are supposed to be uplifted watching our betters feast while we count pennies. All of us will ultimately be forced into the Federal denial-of-care plan while our ‘betters’ continue get their VIP treatment at our expense. Time to raise Mme Guillotine? I'll do the knitting.

[101voodoo]

"Those who advocate socialism think it is a success because they think they will be the elites who use the system to control and manipulate their inferiors while siphoning off a comfortable living for themselves."

Liberals are ignorant in that they seem to believe wealth is a zero sum game, that it cannot be created but exists as a finite amount. This means, in their small minds, that in order for a person to increase thier wealth it MUST necessarily come from someone else who then has less. This is how they keep the masses riled up against the rich, They tell the less then rich they have less simply because the evil rich folks have THEIR money.