[sauropod]

Lots of Bernie bumper stickers around.

[jazusamo]

*PING*
Thomas Sowell

[Billthedrill]

Sowell knows what he's talking about with regard to Marxism. His book Marxism - Philosophy and Economics is as good a treatment in one volume as anything I've ever encountered. BTT

[all the best]

Wrong Dr. Sowell. Socialism sounds awful and plain evil. It is the oppression of the individual. In other words, it si the oppression of people. It is force, it is coercion, it is envy and fear. It is darkness and death. It is an awful and very dangerous mistake to give them any credit at all. It is all an ugly, deadly lie.

[spintreebob]

Socialists are the smartest people in the country. Just ask them. And smart people know that smart people should be making the important decisions for us. :)

[HiTech RedNeck]

It is to take a principle which should be living in the voluntary sphere (most notably, churches and their charity) and trying to force it to live in an involuntary sphere.

As soon as contribution is not voluntary, people will look for ways to cheat the system.

[jazusamo]

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[RWGinger]

Great article by Sowell
And we see from all the college kids Bering for Sanders they buy into socialism.
Yes history and now prove it gas not and will not ever work for people
but people like Bernie simply brush reality off by saying others were not done right.

[Robert DeLong]

How long before it all boils over? Not long I surmise given the conditions. We would have already exploded.

[FreedomPoster]

They’re feeling the Bern in Bernezuela.

[T-Bird45]

FTA: It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster.

Just 4 sentences into the article and Sowell already has lib heads exploding across the fruited plain. He's good like that!! Even better, in only a few more sentences, he exposes the facts established in Venezuela that the socialists can't manage to supply beer and toilet paper. Screw up the simple stuff and even Bernie's true believer college students will turn on him like a pack of wolves.

[editor-surveyor]

Bernie’s head is soft, like all socialists

[AlanGreenSpam]

“Democracy seeks equality in LIBERTY, while Socialism seeks equality in SERVITUDE.”

It’s that simple...

[dynachrome]

Yeah, but obozo and hildabeast and bernie will make sure it works this time!

[rockinqsranch]

AHA! Great to hear from Dr. Sowell again. Been awhile. I’m guessing he’s kicking back, and doing more with his interest in photography.

Thanks for the ping jaz. Appreciate it.

[TigersEye]

Sowell: Socialism for the Uninformed

Is there any other kind?

[Tax-chick]

Anoreth said they wouldn’t even give her a free hamburger at the Bernie Sanders rally, to which I assume she went only in the hope of free hamburgers and beer.

[Lizavetta]

I really wish articles such as this would break it down into pieces that the non-economic types could clearly understand. This led to this which led to this. Simply saying state controlled policies created shortages isn’t enough.

[Secret Agent Man]

On paper socialism is always a successful utopia.

In real life practice, it is death, starvation, lack of everything, and chaos.

[jonrick46]

Socialists are the smartest people in the world until they have siphoned off all money from their host population. History has not been kind to them. They never seem smart enough to keep those they swindled from hanging them or avoid the consequences of an indulgent lifestyle.

Mussolini and his mistress.

Saddam Hussein, guilty of crimes against humanity.

Mao Zedong killed way too many people (78 million) and smoked way too many cigarettes. His last photo.