"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."

Monday, October 24, 2011

MEMO TO OWS PROTESTERS: IF SOCIALISM OR THE WELFARE STATE WORKED, THEN...

IF SOCIALISM OR THE WELFARE STATE WORKED, THEN:
  1. THEN USSR WOULD BE THE RICHEST COUNTRY ON EARTH.
  2. THEN NORTH KOREANS WOULD LIVE BETTER THAN SOUTH KOREANS.
  3. THEN WEST GERMANS WOULD HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET INTO EAST GERMAN.
  4. THEN FLORIDIANS WOULD BE TRYING TO GET INTO CUBA.
  5. THEN MAO'S CHINA WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN AN IMPOVERISHED LAND OF STARVATION AND MODERN CHINA WOULDN'T BE THE 2ND LARGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD.
  6. THEN GREECE AND IRELAND AND ITALY AND SPAIN WOULDN'T BE GOING BANKRUPT AND DESTROYING THE EURO-ZONE.
  7. THEN RHODE ISLAND AND ILLINOIS AND CALIFORNIA WOULDN'T BE GOING BANKRUPT.
SOCIALISM AND THE WELFARE STATE SUCK.

IT'S A FACT. EVERYWHERE IT'S BEEN TRIED - EVERY TIME.

SOCIALISM IS THE ROAD TO SERFDOM.

THE ROAD TO LESS LIBERTY, AND LESS PROSPERITY - BECAUSE PROSPERITY IS A BY-PRODUCT OF LIBERTY.

(IDEA: SOME RIGHT-WING BILLIONARE - LIKE THE KOCH BROS OR STEVE FORBES - OUGHT TO BE HANDING OUT COPIES OF HAYEK'S BOOK, THE ROAD TO SERFDOM, TO VERY OWS PROTESTER IN THE NATION.)

2 comments:

Epaminondas said...

What's lost is that capitalism also sucks bad, it's merely that everything else SUCKS FAR WORSE

Reliapundit said...

THAT'S USUALLY SAID OF DEMOCRACY.

ACTUALLLY, THE FREE MARKET, DEMOCRACY, THE RULE OF LAW AND LIBERTY HAVE CREATED BEARLY ALL THE PROSPERITY IN HUMAN HISTORY ENJOYED BY "THE MASSES".

SOCIALISM AND WELFARE SPREAD AND EMBED MISERY.

IT AIN'T EVEN CLOSE.