(April 2, 2010 at 6:47 am)padraic Wrote:(March 27, 2010 at 4:34 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Hardly irrational, given the oppression and death than so naturally comes with socialism and communism. People have every right to be fearful of such ideas; they have a long bloody history.
Unlike laissez faire capitalism.
And remember Britain has many trappings of a socialist country, especially the fantastic NHS, which is using a very expensive drug to keep my mum alive, something that would never be affordable in that capitalist mecca America.
She would have been uninsurable because she had been ill before and is too wealthy for medicare.
So would Adrian advocate the sucking away of my families life long savings for the sake of capitalism.
Capitalism only works where there is enough money around for competition to thrive. When this is not present then vital services die, I'm thinking mainly of rural communities.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.