Okay, just to chime in on socialism for a sec; it's not about lazy it's about opportunity. Not everyone that's downtrodden is so because they choose to or choose not to. The sad truth is that with power comes responsibility, and not necessarily to one's self. I don't understand this "greed is good" mindset people have accepted so vehemently recently, but economies fail when people fail each other. It is our responsibility to ensure our neighbors are safe and happy for our sakes, and vice versa. If we fail to do this we get exactly what we have now; the widening rift between those that have and those that have not, money falling in great heaps upon the laps of few, while the many do without, not because they were lazy, but because they just didn't happen to have the same opportunities.
Schools, parks, police, fire, all socialized. If we're going to exist as a bunch of self-serving rats, then why not go all the way? Privatize those institutions as well, so that people with money can be good and sure their children will be safer without poor folk around, clogging up their classrooms, or some jobless schlep isn't taking precious resources away by being rescued by a perfectly useful cop that could be making the streets safer for people that pay for them.
Socialism is only a dirty word because of radical connotations. I emphasize again that I take neither side, and frankly welcome the chaos, simply because I know that people are by and large much too intrinsically stupid to learn from their repeated mistakes. We deserve every last bit of corruption, greed, monopolistic corporate mongering, and short-sighted profit for long term financial decline. Like rats scurrying over one another in a flooding basement, concerned only with themselves, this is the era of entitlement, and it's all downhill from here.
OT: Glenn Beck was a little more moderate once, when he was on CNN, so I never understood this new crackpot Fox News persona he's adopted. It's silly, and anyone that takes him seriously probably should not be argued with, as his viewers are likely rigid thinkers given to the same kind of loony propagandist bullshit that made a sweet old woman become reviled by the masses for subscribing to the thoughts of Governor "I can see Russia" and revealing to a racist presidential candidate that she was afraid of a man that allegedly "pals around with terrorists". Seems she forgot about Dub-yuh's friendly business with the Bin Ladens. Ah well...
If nothing else, we should be grateful Glenn Beck has a show, if for no other reason than to give guys at Comedy Central an easy mark for easy laughs.
