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Its unlikely especially with the big-business administration currently running the country that the United States will ever make a complete switch to socialism. However, socialism is the closest thing, realistically, to a Utopian society.

A workingdefinition of socialism is a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. Many people hate socialism because they think its the same thing as Communism, but its not.

Asimple and funny explanation helps clear upthe differences between communism, capitalism and socialism. Communism is where you have one cow and the government takes it and sells you some milk. Capitalism is where you have two cows and you sell one to buy a bull. Socialism is where theres a cow farm that everyone goes to and you get as much milk as you need.

China, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, New Zealand and Belgium are all socialist countries. In these countries, unemployment and homeless rates are very lowand college graduate rates are very high. America runs on capitalism and is in permanent debt to China. In America, small businesses struggle because you apparently must spend money to make money and competition with big business usually edges them out. But in places like Sweden, small businesses are the foundation of their economy and are extremely successful. Since everyone has what they need in socialist societies, class systems begin to fade. In this sense, Its the opposite of Capitalism. Capitalism thins out the middle class, making everyone either rich or poor. Socialism increases the middle class, because noone company can monopolize all the money and resources. The biggest problem with socialism, that Im aware of, is that it gives government more control, but is it necessarily a bad thing for a people to need its government?

People who hate taxes usually say its because theyview taxationas stealing. Really, taxation ishow the government pays for things we need, like hospitals, schools, police officers, firemen and the military. In Canada, teachers can make up to a hundred thousand dollars a year, once they hit tenure. Most teachers in America make thirty thousand dollars a year, and rarely make more thanfifty thousand. The average police officer in America makes fifty-five thousand dollars a year, while theymake seventy thousand in Canada.

In a socialist society, everyone can afford education and health care. In America, people who dont know better tend tohate universalhealth coverage like Obamacare. That is, until they need it. Having to pay a little more every paycheck so that poor people can have health coverage might sound unfair, until youre the one in need of an expensive surgery youd have no way to pay for if it werent for taxes.

Its not fair that my hard-earned money allows lazy homeless people to remain jobless, critics decry. Why should I have to pay for other peoples medical problems and poor work ethics? Newsflash, this systembenefits you as well. You would get just as many advantages as everyone else.

Per the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, everyone on the planet has a right to the things they need to survive, like food, a home or the ability to be seen by a doctor if they break their arm. If a little bit more of my paycheck has to go toward paying for a roof to go over a struggling families head, then Im happy with that. Allowing for other people to have a home wont take mine away from me. I would rather share my cow and get all the milk I need than watch my neighbors starve because they dont have a cow at all.

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The Case for Socialism in the US - Daily Utah Chronicle

Ive heard the debate about whether Social Security and Medicare are entitlements or rights. Ive come to the conclusion that this debate really doesnt matter. Both programs are designed to fail just as Obamacare has failed and fiat money will fail. They are both Ponzi schemes and all Ponzi schemes end badly, particularly for the newer members coerced into the schemes. We are now below three taxpayers for every Social Security recipient and the number of taxpayers per recipient will continue to decrease. There are no reserves in the mislabeled trust funds and more benefits are handed out to recipients annually than taken in through working taxpayers under FICA and SECA taxation. This means the general fund makes up the differences that add to our ever growing national debt. Socialism has its price which usually is an economic collapse.

Now is the time for We the People to come to terms with our responsibility as sovereigns of this nation to try and save it or continue the Alfred E. Neuman philosophy of what, me worry? while we continue listening to the fake news and politicians feeding us lies and distractions.

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Congratulations To Bolivarian Socialism - Venezuela Stops Publishing Money Supply Data Forbes It's not unusual for people to be a bit more reticent about information that reflects badly upon them than they are about stuff that makes them look good. But we do still normally expect governments to keep pumping out the usual economic data. The US ...

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Posted: Mar 23, 2017 12:01 AM

The results of a new study were announced this week, and they are consistent with previous findings. The five million or so people who live in the Scandinavian country of Norway are among the happiest on earth.

Writing for Reuters (3/20/17), Patricia Reaney noted: Norway displaced Denmark as the world's happiest country in a new report released on Monday in a study that ranked 155 nations on earth. The United States ranked as 14th happiest, down from 13th last year.

At the bottom of the list? Countries in sub-Saharan Africa, along with Syria and Yemen. The research was conducted and compiled by the UN for the World Happiness Report 2017.

Reaney adds, The rankings are based on six factors---per capita gross domestic product, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, social support and absence of corruption in government or business.

Norway often tops the list of happiest nations. Why is that? Its not the weather. Meanwhile, there are many beautiful places throughout Norway, including the fjords.

My wife is from Norway. We were married in Norway. Most of her family still lives there. We have visited many times. Why do Norwegians tend to be happier?

I would argue that it is the Christian values that can still be found in many parts of Norway. Even todays secular-minded Norwegians are benefiting from Christianitys residue. About a millennium ago, Norway was the scourge of Europe, with the Vikings ravaging people all over the Continent. God, save us from the Normans, went up the prayers. And God answered by converting the Vikings to Jesus. Its one of the great stories of history.

Now Norway, formerly the land of Viking violence, hands out international peace prizes.

When the Reformation took place some 500 years ago, the Scandinavian countries threw their lot with Martin Luther and company. To this day, many of the state-churches in the Scandinavian countries are Lutheran.

When Bernie Sanders ran against Hilary Clinton on the Democratic side of the aisle last year, he made a big deal about the alleged success of the socialism of the Scandinavian countries. Others made similar points. Scandinavia flourishes because it is socialist lite. Were they correct?

Nima Sanandaji, whose family is from Iran, is from Sweden and is the author of the book, Debunking Utopia: Exposing the Myth of Nordic Socialism (WND Books, 2016).

In an interview we did for one of our D. James Kennedy Ministries television specials exposing the problems of socialism, Sanandaji told me, Nordic countries are not socialist. The prime minister of Denmark came to the U.S. at the end of 2015, went to Harvard, and spoke, and he said in effect, Stop saying that Denmark is socialist; were a market economy. And hes absolutely right, throughout their historyNordic countries have been perhaps the best example of how free markets create prosperity; and how high taxes, overly generous welfare, have destroyed the same prosperity. Today Nordic countries are very much market economies. They respect private property.

Sanandaji drilled deeper: Nordic countries are successful because of their unique culture, and this is why socialists only point to Nordic countries [as examples of successful socialism] because their success predates the welfare state and is because of culture, and their economic success is because of free markets. That is why they can never find a good case for socialism which is not about Nordic countries. Its all smoke and mirrors. [Emphasis mine].

Sanandaji points out in his book that Scandinavians who left Norway, Denmark, Sweden, etc. about a hundred years ago, when compared with their Nordic cousins who never left, tend to fare better by any comparison. He said, Nordic-Americans, because they have a Nordic culture of success, are already more successful than the Nordic people. He said there are 12 million Nordic-Americans, and they have a 50 percent higher living standard than do their cousins who never left Scandinavia.

Nima said something we dont hear often: Culture matters, and so what is Nordic cultural success? Now it has a lot to do with this Protestant, Lutheran working ethics---Protestant, Lutheran responsibility ethics, and the unfortunate thing is that that ethic has gradually been declining over time.

Sanandaji, an atheist, cannot be accused of a Christian bias. Yet he says retaining the Judeo-Christian traditions will be key to the future survival of the West.

Seeing the average Norwegian enjoying so many positive benefits tied to their national Christian heritage does not surprise me. They are consistently listed as among the happiest nations on earth. That is primarily because of their Christian heritage, which, sadly, is fading over time.

At the end of the day, each of us is as happy as we make our mind to be. To paraphrase that quintessential colonial American, Ben Franklin: Contentment makes poor men rich. Discontentment makes rich men poor.

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BY: Jack Heretik March 22, 2017 9:17 am

Adigital short called "Democrats Love Socialism" by Ami Horowitz of Fox News was released on March 15 and highlights the struggles of citizens in socialist Venezuela, includingmass hunger and a high murder rate. Horowitz contrasts this struggle to Americans at the beginning of the short, who tell Horowitz there is nothing wrong with socialism.

In Venezuela, Horowitz walked with a man who was looking for acat or a dog to eat,and talked to people who claimedthey have to wait all day in a line to get just a small amountof food or milk. One woman said that she sometimes shakes at night due to hunger and passes out.

"Before all these problems started we were middle class, but now we are lower class," one Venezuelan woman said.

The Venezuelans Horowitz interviewed also discussedthe high crime rateandfrequent murders.

Horowitz said Venezuela has three times the amount of murder inthe United States, despite being less than one tenth of America's population. And although Venezuela bears strict gun laws, its capital city of Caracas has more death than Baghdad.

Venezuelanstold Horowitz about losing loved ones inshootings that are ignored by the police. The documentary has ascene where a man was just shot in a busy street, buta police officer casually walks by.

Horowitz then asked Venezuelans if socialism works, and what they think of the Americans who want it applied to the U.S.

"No, because if it really worked we wouldn't be in chaos and hunger," one man said.

"No, it doesn't work here," another man said. "It's all a lie they tell us."

"I would tell the Americans not to commit to that madness because that is all a lie," a woman said. "They lied to us. We don't have anything to eat. Crime has taken over."

Somepeople Horowitz spoke to said that those who advocate for socialism in the United States should go to Venezuelaand experience it first.

Horowitz closed the video by showing a woman preaching about socialism in the United States.

"They are one of the most productive, their people are the happiest, they have the least amount of crime, violence," the woman said. "There's nothing wrong with it in my eyes."

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