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Old 07-20-2007, 10:31 PM   #26
Urbane Guerrilla
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What I see in that quotation is anticapitalistic propaganda, with this specious yelling about "cuts in essential programs like Head Start or Medicaid." This sort of thing is simply lessening the government's presence in the service sector -- these are not things only government can provide. The writer doesn't recognize that. You can see how strongly the writer favors socialism -- while living very well in the most deeply capitalist society in normal experience. Socialism always tries to replace prosperity-making initiative with official service rationing, and therein it fails to either provide service or improve prosperity.

I regard this as fundamentally unwise, and its proponents examples of unwisdom.

Note his repeated statements that the government should supply this, that, or the other. Then bring to mind what H.L. Mencken said about what would happen to sand supplies were the government in charge of all the sand. H.L. had a considerable body of observation backing him up.

The anticapitalists insist that capitalism must oppress. That is false, and their persistence in the falsehood brands them liars, evil bastards, commie rats, and other perfectly true and applicable names delivered in a very loud voice. It gives cover to the oppressive practices indulged in by socialists -- why, those Socialistic Old Bastards.
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