07-31-2015, 06:02 PM
(07-31-2015, 03:18 PM)fredtoast Wrote: There is a HUGE difference between the government providing some assistance to a portion of the citizens and owning and operating the means of production.
In fact it isn't even close to the same thing.
Your are better than this. Don't start acting like Lucy. It is beneath you.
This is increasingly less and less true, first with the ACA (which, healthcare is something like 17% of the economy)...All the govt workers (including teachers) and military...And govt has its hands all over the energy industry, as well (another 12%) or so.
It's A LOT closer than you think, and increasing in the trend (hint hint hint regulation).
And the goverment doesn't own and operate the means of production in a socialist economy, Fred. That would be communism.
