Socialism is like betting. You waste more than you gain !

I am pleased to say that most of my children and their friends are conservatives.
They believe in the rule of law and the rights of the individual.

I have visited Russia during the Socialist era and my observations were that that system can never work.

The utopian GenY who thinks socialism is hot obviously have not heard of history.
I watched as starving elderly people begged outside churches in Russia.
When I asked my "escort"a security service operative why they were begging. The operative said"Oh they are outside the system."
The system means people who volunteer from school children to workers and aged pensioners pick cabbages at the weekend in freezing conditions or work free for the state in their spare time.
I would love to see the GenY socialists volunteering working in a factory for the common good.

The utopian GenY who thinks socialism is hot, is merely a useful idiot indoctrinated at University to stand against nationalism in support of globalism.
They are merely a tool whose youthful rebellious nature is subverted and used in order to get from one place to another.

I enjoy watching Vladimir Jaffe, a refugee from the USSR who made good in the USA, interviewing political radicals about their beliefs. Unfortunately Vladimir seems to have been blackballed, with the indoctrinated ignoring him or telling him to turn off his camera. Sad to see brainwashed people in a cult, but who am I to tell people how to be happy?

Dear Brock,

Why are you conflating a communist regime with socialist countries? The Scandinavian countries are deemed socialist with high taxes and correspondingly high levels of state services for their citizens. It is almost universally agree they are successful countries.

The homelessness in the USA even in wealthy states like California is out of control. If you had been there recently you would have experienced begging on an endemic scale.

That is what a hyper-capitalistic society like the USA produces. Not only that to manage their system involves putting that highest ratio of their citizens behind bars in the world, just to keep the whole thing from collapsing.

How about getting a bit more fair dinkum in your critique of socialism and let's have a proper debate.

In reply to Individual. You forget that most people paid a few dollars a week for private health cover before Medicare.
Now taxpayers are paying through taxes and the Medicare levy much more than before towards Medicare and the army of government officials who administer the scheme.