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From: billp@bronze.UUCP (Bill Pfeifer)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame
Subject: Socialism
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Date: Tue, 13-Sep-83 20:43:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 13 20:43:46 1983
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Mike Kelly (tty3b!mjk) writes:

>>>> As to "nationalizing" you, I don't know what that means.  But if there
>>>> ever is socialism in the U.S., we won't need to nationalize anyone who
>>>> doesn't want to benefit.  They can keep screaming in the dark about their
>>>> "freedoms" while everyone else realizes the benefits of universal medical
>>>> care, affordable and safe housing, humanized technology and the other
>>>> things that socialism is all about.

I'll tell you what "nationalizing" means.  It means taking everything that
you or I or rabitt!jj own and worked for, killing anyone who resists, and
letting the wonderful benevolent government decide on how to spend it.

As for your "benefits": look at some socialist countries!
Universal medical care?  Sure if you want to wait years for your surgery,
and then have it done by a drunk quack, who butchers you up worse than
you were before.
Affordable housing?  Sure, if you are willing to register you newborn for
an apartment, so maybe there is one available by the time s/he marries.
Safe housing?  Don't make me laugh!  Go to ANY socialist country, and just
look at those places!  
Humanized technology?  Like yellow rain, or nuclear waste contaminating
hundreds of square miles?

That's what socialism is all about.

	Bill Pfeifer
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