miles wrote
Rod Speed wrote
miles wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Myal wrote

As soon as the country does everything for you, the country is near collapse.

Bet you cant list even a single country that has ever collapsed that way.

Russia

Doesnt qualify. It went for half a century attempting to do that before it collapsed and it
collapsed for other reasons

lol,

Village eejut imitations cut no mustard.

you seem to pick and choose what qualifies or doesn't based on your own personal views.

We'll see...

Russia's attempt to provide everything for everyone was a failure.

It worked reasonably well for a while, and they got a much better
result during the Great Depression than most of the first world did.

The fundamental thing that sank Russia was actually the cold
war, not doing everything for the inhabitants of that country.

essentially because the political system doesnt work over the long haul and they couldnt keep up
with the US on military spending.

Yes it collapsed because it had no money from a broke system of trying to be everything to
everyone.

Have fun explaining how come China did the same thing and didnt collapse.

with many more struggling with the high cost of socialism.

Socialism aint communism. And I bet you cant actually list any countrys 'struggling with the high
cost of socialism'. Plenty of those have even better real living standards than the US has

Particularly for the dregs of their society.

and the US has plenty of socialism too, most obviously with public schools, medicare, medicade,
social security etc etc etc.

The UK is struggling in providing its social programs.

Pig ignorant lie. They have chosen to not have the very high
taxation levels that are seen in the worst of europe like Norway.

College and healthcare in the UK are running low in funding.

Pig ignorant lie.

Free college has already seen cutbacks in order to shift funds to a starved health care system.

Pig ignorant lie.

And their schools work a hell of a lot better than the socialist schools in the US anyway.

In the long run socialism can't work.

Easy to claim.

Each year the demands on social programs increases faster than the ability to generate those funds
through taxation.

Fantasy with the basics like school education, where every single modern first
world country isnt even self replacing on population when you take out immigration.

The socialism in the Jap economy works fine.

Most European socialist countries have absurdly high taxes that is crippling.

Pig ignorant lie, only a few of them do.

Only a few huh? Now thats a lie!

Nope.

Take a look at the tax rates of most socialist European countries or even Canada.

Been there, done that. It isnt crippling in england, or canada.

It isnt even that much higher in canada when you
allow for the different funding of health care costs.

In the UK they are having to reduce funding of free collage in order to pay for a cash strapped
healthcare system.

Pig ignorant lie.

Truth bothers you huh?

You wouldnt know what the truth was if it bit you on your lard arse.

The UK's social system is cash strapped and thats no lie.

Its a pig ignorant lie and the only reason it doesnt have as much money
as some would like is because they have chosen to not have the very high
tax levels that some other european countrys like Norway have chosen to have.