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Old November 19th, 2005 #29
Alex Linder
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Who are these vested interests? The companies doing business with the government? The market corrupting the government officials?
Oh, man. "The market corrupting the government officials." Reverse that.

The government doesn't precisely "corrupt" the market, it distorts it. It passes regulations -- always in the name of clean air or some other good -- that private business is forced to comply with. These regulation almost always make things worse - more expensive, less available. Then the politicians run to their media, and together they start shouting about corporate greed! That is exactly how the system works.

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National Socialism is a worldview. The government exists to serve the people. That is its sole purpose. It can not be bought, it cannot be sold. It protects the workers and it protects the market. Both must work together for the best interests of both.
That's a nice theory. I doubt there's any government that doesn't claim the same. Those who claim to be "public servants" are the greediest mofos of all, and they rely on Joe Public taking them at face value.

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Hong Kong has public housing, and state health care ect., unfortunately there is growing poverty in Hong Kong due to recent market reforms.
I don't know about now, but whatever minor socialism it may endure, it has always had low to no taxes, and that is the reason for its phenomonel economic success.

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BTW: Switzerland provides government healthcare.
And how many people go to Switzerland for healthcare? They come here, because in spite of our socialism, we still have most advanced health care. If the government would get out of the way completely, it would become even better. Instead we're very likely to get Hilary Clinton in 2008, with renewed call for a single-payer system. Socialized health care is precisely the kind of nostrum that sounds good to the fool in the street who cannot understand cause and effect. Socialized health care means people dying in waiting lines. There are economic laws at work that no political theory can falsify, altho the govt and complicit media will do their corrupt best to hide connections.