America, the Socialist Nightmare

Miscellaneous General
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So I was shown this article by a friend of mine (that absolutely hates libertarians). I thought it was pretty funny.

http://www.shortnews.com/feedback.cfm?fanz=1&fbid=621825&rubrik=ShortNews&start=1

"America: the Socialist Nightmare State!!!.

(got this in an e-mail; it’s too good not to share)

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US department of energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the national weather service of the national oceanographic and atmospheric administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the national aeronautics and space administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US department of agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the food and drug administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US congress and kept accurate by the national institute of standards and technology and the US naval observatory, I get into my national highway traffic safety administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal departments of transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the environmental protection agency, using legal tender issed by the federal reserve bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US postal service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the department of labor and the occupational safety and health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and fire marshal’s inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log on to the internet which was developed by the defense advanced research projects administration and post on freerepublic.com and fox news forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can’t do anything right."

2

Not Socialist but National Socialist (Fascist). Fascist is more accurate. All functions in the economy are monitored and guided by a powerful state but most of the economy is privately owned. The ending result is the state is actually more powerful under fascism than outright socialism as it keeps a level of competition in those industries lacking political power.

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Oh yes, where would we be without the omnipotent state. Without its benevolent presence I would not be able to even think, let alone articulate my thoughts into language! And I’d be at a hospital (oh wait, those wouldn’t exist!) dying from food poisoning without mummy government to hold my hand. That is, if I didn’t die from watching prohibited programmes on TV!

Funny, almost all the things it mentions are either a) attributable to the market, b) could be provided by the market but for the state’s interventions or c) projects of the state that the market expanded upon and which took off with knowledge it had provided to begin with. The glorious state, all bow at its altar. [8-)]

4

are you familiar with this delightful poem?

Government produces all order.
Under anarchy there is no government.
Therefore anarchy is chaos.

Q.E.D.

In Washington there isn’t any plan
With “feeding David” on page sixty-four;
It must be accidental that the milk man
Leaves a bottle at my door.

It must be accidental that the butcher
Has carcasses arriving at his shop
The very place where, when I need some meat,
I accidentally stop.

My life is chaos turned miraculous;
I speak a word and people understand
Although it must be gibberish since words
Are not produced by governmental plan.

Now law and order, on the other hand
The state provides us for the public good;
That’s why there’s instant justice on demand
And safety in every neighborhood.

  • David Friedman
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You know, I could have sworn I’ve seen this article before while browsing FreeRepublic. The amount of begged questions in that article is absolutely staggering. Presumably, the writers wouldn’t consider writing about a man in a socialist country who’s retirement money has been wasted by the government on bailing out politically connected banks, who dies of a long waiting line for his socialist healthcare and who has to work 20 hours a day to feed his family from his farming business because bigger, more connected farms get govt subsidies.