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Politics : How will the swing towards socialism affect you? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KLP who wrote (4)	1/26/2010 9:41:58 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 8

Well most countries (perhaps all depending on how you set the boundaries of the terms) are a mix of socialism and capitalism. Most people support the idea of a mix. The disagreement is how much of each. I join you in supporting a very large dose of the free market, for the dynamism, wealth creation, and freedom it brings. Others wan't less, but want enough to try to create the wealth they want to distribute. If your aim is equality or security rather than opportunity, wealth, dynamism and freedom this may make some sense, but often it doesn't work well even for those ends, and freedom and prosperity are far more important to me than equality of results. Others just totally misunderstand human nature and want a large dose of socialism which they somehow think will work well, or perhaps they want the state to be in charge because they think they can control the state and have more power.