Recently, a friend of mine was comparing modern day socialism with what seems to be essential public works projects that most cities perform everyday.
What he was postulating that since local government already
socialized some government functions we don't ever need to worry about socializing more?
However, Illogical this statement seems to be, it represent the current state of liberalism today and it also represents a danger to what some Americans would understand the functions of government.
The argument is in it self a entirely ad Hominem, ridiculing those that rightly worry about become more socialistic. The underling belief is that we are not being fair to society if we do not believe in adding to a already big government.
Comparing Police, Fire and education to say health care is in itself like comparing apples and oranges as the old saying goes, it is a sophomoric argument with really no merit to it.
I remember this quote at Brigham Young University Idaho when I was taking economics:
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to slavery!
Republics degenerates to dictatorships by demanding government does everything or doesn't do enough. Finding excuses why a Government should do something doesn’t in anyway mean it should. To compare one form of Government to another is it itself intellectual dishonest!
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