I Warn You

[Adak]

You know why socialism always fails, and the conservatives are voted back in?

Because socialism only works great until the money it wastes, is gone. Then it turns into Cuba, where one or more buildings fall down every month, because nobody can afford to paint /waterproof the concrete they're made of.

Free markets are not necessarily kind. You need some kind of safety nets for them to be palatable. The problem is when the safety nets becomes a socialist lifestyle - the safety nets have a lot of money invested in them, and thus the taxes to support them, go sky high.

Now it's almost impossible for any business to move into new markets, to do a large expansion, or for an entrepreneur to get a business started. The capital just isn't there - it went into those safety nets, you love.

You need a balance, and that is something that people who favor one approach over the other, find it difficult to agree on. Even in the abstract.