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Crowd of people on Brooklyn Bridge

What Does the Brooklyn Bridge Have to do with Socialized Medicine?

The idea of Medicare for all, as proposed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kamala Harris, and many others on the left, sounds amazing.  They’re a little vague on details, but as I understand it, everyone on U.S. soil, whether they pay into the system or not, would be entitled to free quality healthcare from birth until death.  …

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Universal-Basic-Income

Finland Discovers What You Already Knew – Universal Basic Income Doesn’t Work

From January 2017 through December 2018 the Finnish government gave 2000 people a universal basic income. Money for nothing. The theory, as dumb as it sounds, is that if the government provides unemployed people money, they will go find work.  When it launched the pilot scheme back in 2017, Finland became the first European country to test out …

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Bernie Scowl and Trump SOTU

Sunset At Bernie’s

Oooh Boy, did Bernie Sanders get a slap-down last night while Congressman Kuster was dancing the Macarena in a short, embarrassing, tribute to herself. Socialist Bernie Sanders, now wandering the hinterlands of the Democrat Party he occasionally uses to enhance his political career, was caught scowling as President Trump spelled out the future of socialism …

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Toilet paper roll no toilet paper

If You Hate Toilet Paper, You Will Love Socialism

Ah, the lure of socialism, and all its attached psychopathic political theories. “Socialism is sexy,” says a young fella on a liberal cable show. “MSNBC’s Chris Hayes took to Twitter to lecture us about the “least sexy part of socialism,” adding that it’s grounded in “effective, efficient bureaucratic administration but the project lives or dies …

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Quotes

Notable Quote – Thales

From The Long March of Socialism – Do Not Keep Faith ..Socialists are good at hacking the human emotional landscape, so to speak. As I stated in an earlier post, the nature of this moral argument stems from a misinterpretation of the Golden Rule, or alternatively, from the optimum play strategy in Game Theory. In …

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Disqus Doodlings – no, capitalism requires cooperation – LOTS of it. Part 2 of ??

Yeah, this Treehugger post on Einstein hating capitalism is gonna be a gold mine for blogging fodder.  Even as I write this, the neo-socialist-enviros are pushing back on the Freedom to transact voluntarily (e.g. Capitalism).  Another pick at the pot by Brian who, along with most there, hates the idea of the fruits of Capitalism: …

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