Mixed Economy, Capitalist or Socialist?? (Poll)

[kirovman]

This is what the poll should have been:
- Free Market Economy
- Command Economy (ie Communist run)
- Middle way (eg New Labour in the UK?)

Meh, it's pretty much the same.

Although Communism depends on a Totalitarian regime to administer it. Socialism tends to be democratically elected, and its philosophy depends on a nationalised industry. A bit like what Atlee set up at the end of the 1940s.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

What don't seem to understand is that very few people actually like being unemployed. People want jobs, they don't want to live in poverty, which you do if you don't have a job, even in countries with a big social safety net. I'm sure most people think on monday morning how good it would be to be without job, but if you are, you won't like it. If, say, the factory or the office you work on gets shut down, is that your fault? Is it your fault that your parents couldn't afford that collage education, so that you'tr stuck with crappy jobs? You say that you don't want to support the lazy, well how about supporting your fellow humans when they so desperately need it? I find it funny that you conervatives and other right-wingers talk so much about moral, and yet you aren't even capable of showing solidarity to your fellow citizens when they need you the most.

People should help out of their own will if they want to. People should not be forced into helping. It's a choice.

You'll also find that the religious right is more apt to spend on federal programs and welfare, this is the main cause of division in the labeled 'right.'

You've got the economic libertarians and people who want true freedom at odds with the religiously influenced political ones, but they must stick together as far as parties and votes go to keep an upper hand against the socialists. And although you may think it's a bit more to the right in America, the exact same dynamic exists here with the Republicans and Democrats. If the Democratic party suddenly dissolved, you can bet your ass the Republican party would split immediately, if not dissolve, into squabbling factions (same goes for the Democrats)

I don't think anyone wakes up and thinks of how good it would be without a job. If they thought that, they would quit.

My parents also cannot afford the college education. That's why I use hard work to achieve and make it there. People tend to think that in not having a compulsory public funded safety net that none exists. They fail to realize the private sector can provide one just as much.

 

[kirovman]

People should help out of their own will if they want to. People should not be forced into helping. It's a choice.

Yes, but when these very same people need help themselves, should they be discriminated against for not having helped in their previously affluent past?

I think virtually noone would donate to a charity welfare system, or whatever if they had the chance, but they would surely like a safety net to fall back on in their time of need.

Also I find a lot of people in the USA are supposedly patriotic or even nationalistic...but yet, they failed to want to help their own countrymen out of poverty... they'd much rather spend their money on military in foreign affairs.

People should not be forced into "helping" Iraq, for example. Especially with domestic needy problems.

 

[MiccyNarc]

Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong.
O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,
To Communism's triumph lead us on!

Now name a purely communist country that has actually succeeded and not resulted in the deaths of millions!

I like Capitalism.

 

[Icarusintel]

Capitalism, motherf*cker! Do you use it!?