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My husband and I started, operated and sold 5 businesses over the years. Trust me.. We didn't do it alone.. We used existing services like roads and the US post office.
You're either a kid or real stupid.
I thought you were pissing your pants over “wealth gap‘s”?Not sure what this has to do with your fear of foreign born cheap labor. You obviously are afraid of what you think that means to you.
What about their demographics? You want to emulate that too? If not, just cherry picking a few items is disingenuous and dishonest.
lets just say that if i agreed with what you are saying,i dont know if i would vote for you....Are you saying I don’t frame my words just right for nutless, fragile sky screamers?
Well, yeah. It was far too early for them to call it that, of course, but the Roman Republic (most of the roads were built under the Republic, not the Empire) gathered taxes, some of which went to the military, who built the roads, and they were open to whomever needed them.The Roman emperors were socialist? They built roads. It's always the same with you clowns. You claim things are socialist that aren't. Investment in the common good is not socialism, it dates back long before political theories even existed. The crux of socialism is stealing from those who have and giving it to those who don't. Even the most ignorant folks can see that's wrong, so you socialists steal ideas and pretend they are socialism to mask your thieving ways.
Because many of them are not stupid. They have read history books.What an interesting blog article on American ideas about civil responsibility and the knee jerk reaction of Americans generally, and Conservatives specifically, to fear community welfare and immediately associate it with socialism or communism. It led to her asking “What are you so afraid of?”, and she received 5 specific groups of fears:
She has some good responses to these fears that I can’t do just to for a short attention span. Read the link if you want. I think these fears keep America from being a great and caring nation.
- I’m scared of having to pay for other people’s laziness
- I’m scared because I don’t trust my government or other people generally
- I’m scared because socialism leads to authoritarianism
- I’m scared because socialists and communists kill a lot of people
- I’m not scared, socialism always fails
Why Are Americans and Conservatives So Afraid of Socialism?
I went a little bit viral on TikTok recently for voicing the unthinkable: I said that I like paying taxes. As you might imagine, the Americans and Conservatives in my comment section were shocked and appalled. The words communist and socialist were thrown around like insults, images of gulags and famine were invoked to prove some kind of vague and poorly-articulated point about freedom.
In contrast, the (predominantly western/northern) Europeans seemed to find my explanation pretty fair and even stopped to correct me on some of the finer points of Scottish, Scandinavian and German socialist democracy.
What shocked me, however, was not that so many Americans and Conservatives seemed to misunderstand fundamental aspects of civil life — like taxation — but that so many seemed so vehemently opposed to any suggestion that we should all contribute to the collective welfare of our countrymen.
Curiosity piqued, yesterday I made the mistake of asking Americans and Conservatives: “What is it about communism/socialism that scares you?” Here’s what they said.
Well, yeah. It was far too early for them to call it that, of course, but the Roman Republic (most of the roads were built under the Republic, not the Empire) gathered taxes, some of which went to the military, who built the roads, and they were open to whomever needed them.
I'm sorry if dedicating some of your earnings toward the benefit of the common good seems abhorrent to you, but the concept works pretty well for things we can't buy ourselves.
If people really want a bridge, then a capitalist can make money building one.Well, yeah. It was far too early for them to call it that, of course, but the Roman Republic (most of the roads were built under the Republic, not the Empire) gathered taxes, some of which went to the military, who built the roads, and they were open to whomever needed them.
I'm sorry if dedicating some of your earnings toward the benefit of the common good seems abhorrent to you, but the concept works pretty well for things we can't buy ourselves.
Moron....you paid for those roads with your taxes..without you, those roads wouldn't have been built......
You are an idiot, falling for the very system that would put you and yours in mass graves when you decided to keep one penny more than they allowed you to have......
Moron....without his political offices he would have been nothing.....and michelle only had her job because her husband was an illinois Senator...
You are the one that wants to emulate them. Demographics is part of their success. You are such a fake little rube.What's wrong with their demographics? They are people.. Oh, you think we can't be smart in the US because we have Blacks, Hispanics and Asians.
How pathetic.. How biased and ignorant.
Got it…well thanks for that.lets just say that if i agreed with what you are saying,i dont know if i would vote for you....
If people really want a bridge, then a capitalist can make money building one.
All the things you claimed were socialist, aren't. Nobody is going to take you seriously if you can't accept that simple truth.Well, yeah. It was far too early for them to call it that, of course, but the Roman Republic (most of the roads were built under the Republic, not the Empire) gathered taxes, some of which went to the military, who built the roads, and they were open to whomever needed them.
I'm sorry if dedicating some of your earnings toward the benefit of the common good seems abhorrent to you, but the concept works pretty well for things we can't buy ourselves.
That's right, nincompoop.. My taxes pay for roads and cops, firemen and public schools, libraries and emergency services... just like in Scandinavia.
They weren't socialists. They also weren't capitalists. Your claim about the roads is horseshit. At the time the empire was established, Gaul had just been conquered. There were no Roman roads there. There were no Roman roads in Egypt. There were no Roman roads in Dacia, Greece, the Middle East and large parts of AnatoliaWell, yeah. It was far too early for them to call it that, of course, but the Roman Republic (most of the roads were built under the Republic, not the Empire) gathered taxes, some of which went to the military, who built the roads, and they were open to whomever needed them.
I'm sorry if dedicating some of your earnings toward the benefit of the common good seems abhorrent to you, but the concept works pretty well for things we can't buy ourselves.
You are the one that wants to emulate them. Demographics is part of their success. You are such a fake little rube.
