Progressive Mag Rolling Stone: USA should replace Capitalism with Socialism

Sentiment I’m sure the ABC and Fairfax media would like to happen here.

This from the same leftard magazine that put one of the Boston bombing scumbags on their front cover.

The five things Rolling Stone demand:

 

1. Guaranteed Work for Everybody

2. Social Security for All

3. Take Back The Land

4. Make Everything Owned by Everybody

5. A Public Bank in Every State

But where does the money come from???

The author (who is a media coordinator for Occupy Wall Street) doesn’t address the obvious flaw in his logic. Leftard progressives never do.

Cue the late Margaret Thatcher:

 

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Comments

[Allan]

1.

Now that is the most brain-dead article I have ever seen come out of the Socialist/Marxist/Progressive/Entitled Left.

Of course, we all know that it is those terrible rich greedy people that hoard all the money that we are "entitled" to. We shouldn't have to earn our own money while some rich greedy bloke is sitting on billions that should belong to us because we're "entitled".

Margaret Thatcher was right and so was Thomas Sowell when he said:

"I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you've earned, but not greed to want to take somebody else's money".

[Justin Teal]

2.

There are logical flaws and/or inaccuracies in every single point of that article, without fail. The utter sense of entitlement is disgusting.

[Arthur Dent]

3.

Perhaps the author was testing Poe's Law.

Pretty sure none of us would want to live in a total free market.
Go the Mixed Economy !

[Michael F Smyth]

4.

I love how so many of the comments on the RS page are tearing that article a new figurative orifice.

Notwithstanding the egregious grammatical errors in that article, there are so many problems with it that I only have time to outline a few...

The author of the article talks about the evils of "part-time grunt work", but then contradicts himself by clamouring for "guaranteeing work for everyone". With a totally developed economy, full employment will require some people to forgo full-time employment. Part-time employment isn't so bad, as long as people live within their means. In fact, part-time employment allows for greater flexibility and an improved work-life balance.

The second point - Social Security for all - is blown out of the water simply by referring to the great Baroness Thatcher's comment about socialism above. "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." Putting Thatcher aside for a moment, how are you going to get enough money to bankroll such a ubiquitous welfare regime? If it could have been done, it would have been done already - but it can't.

The third point, is so disgusting that I'm appalled that leftards and progressives still cling to the absurd notion that private property is immoral.

Point four, refer above, but to be clear, point four does not acknowledge Enterprise in any way, shape or form - in fact, the entire article disregards the idea of enterprise altogether, but then if socialists understood economics, then they wouldn't be socialists.

Point five is the only point that might hold water, in an ideal world, but there is also the problem of what happens when the revenue of state taxes dry up? When you run out of income, you have to shut down your venture. With the huge financial burden on the State providing for universal welfare, universal subsistence wages, etc., you'll run out of taxpayers paying taxes, and then your revenues will dry up. The only way to fix that problem is to cut the subsistence wages for everyone, and you end up just like Soviet Russia after all. *slow clap*

[oldskool]

5.

Socialism/ communism/ homosexual/ climate change/ left wing/ greens/ progressives/ occupy / every other idiot etc etc etc etc...

all have one fatal flaw - history

Yes the only needed argument to combat them is the facts

[Account Deleted]

6.

Great comments, Michael. You have added to the debate.

[Account Deleted]

7.

it seems after 2 generations, the socialists/Pinko's try another come back.

Liberal Democratic Capitalism isn't perfect, but its the best we have. History has proven that.

Anyone who disagrees should go visit North Korea...

[Jordan]

8.

That's why the Left have dumbed down education and prefer that the next generations know all about aboriginal basket weaving but nothing about 'the kings of England'. They don't want us to know the lessons of history because history casts the Left in a very poor light.

[Gwen]

9.

Well said Jordan !

[Justin Teal]

10.

All the comments are totally negative. It's awesome.

[Winifred Sheen]

11.

Jordon Silly silly silly
No school I know teaches aboriginal basket weaving and as for Aussie kids learning about the Kings of England what use is that..and wouldn't the kids squirm

That info would be useless as learning about that priveleged family in Buckingham Palace. today ..quite useless

[Allan]

12.

Winifred, what is silly and useless is leftists such as yourself who are actually quite intellectually ignorant just like most young adults of today. You appear to be unable to recognise that Justin's comment was not a statement of fact but a nonsense used simply to make a point.

The dumbing down and/or abandonment of history and geography lessons in schools leads to a nation of drongos who don't know where they came from or where they are going.

The dumbing down of education in this country has resulted in younger people unable to handle simple arithmetic, spelling, grammar and a marked inability to string ten word together in a row to make sensible conversation.

The art of legible writing is beyond them, and the knowledge of the geography of their own country - Australia - is almost non-existent. Oh, they know that the Gold Coast is somewhere in Queensland and some have a vague idea that Bali is overseas, but beyond that they would get lost in a phone box.