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Don't want to? Great. Stop driving on those public roads. Take your kids out of school. Going to school yourself? Better be a private school with no federal loans. Oh, and no federal funding for the school. That's socialism. Also, stop drinking water from the tap. In fact, just stop using water altogether, unless you are on a well, in which case you are cool. Not socialist. Unemployment benefits...ever used them? Well, stop using them, commie. Ever called the cops? Socialist as hell, real Americans buy their own security...it's called an AK-47, hippie.

And so on and so forth. Socialism and capitalism have worked just fine together for a long, long time.

You know what, I think I'll give this one to you.

We have some socialist programs and they are draining us If any other country is so great , What the hell are you doing here?

Oh and mine is a AR15 cause I like to buy AMERICAN

If you up minimum wage you drive youth unemployment way up as people who are young are risk to the company so they want someone reliable who has experience so youth unemployment will go up

Women weren't working hear me out if two people are working there is more money then the cost of housing increased as there is effectively double the income so if you are a single parent male or female you will have a really hard time with the cost of living being so high

??? So better for the country and family and sign of a good economy if two people have to work to pay the bills?

When it was one person the cost was lower so your wife would look after your children that means you don't need any child care

Indeed, why should women work and be financially independent?

Great Depression, colorized.

It's been like that since before this country was a country. Why does the government provide subsidies for mineral exploration? Shouldn't that be the forte of the mining and oil companies? Why do telecommunications companies get subsidized to run phone lines and internet lines to remote areas that, without the government handouts, be non-profitable?

lobbyist making greed happen

All lobbyists can do is bribe and beg... But what the government does gets forced onto you, and you must pay for it

Not the first time it's happened. Lobbyists from the India Tea Company wanted the general public to pay the high taxes caused by Great Brittan's constant wars. That's how the American Colonists ended up with all those weird taxes. We saw what happened then.

Don't know where you're reading your history, but how would it benefit a tea company to want to increase taxes on its own product? Seems to me like increased cost, consumer outrage, and a revolutionary war would be bad for business. *Sips coffee, not tea*

Are you really sure you want to know this? (Hint, you can find this sort of "taxation" throughout any utility bill you have)

*looks at electric bill from 1776* nope. *looks at cable bill from 1776* nope again. Are you sure? I mean I don't think I had utilities 240-ish years ago

Where did capitalism "ALWAYS" end up well? Because the top picture looks like pretty much every red state.

It’s great to live in a “red state” :)

Oh, so you agree :)

Its better because red states dont pay their fair share of the bills? its better because there is no public transportation? its better because in a hurricane you get wiped out and once again need socialist America to bail you out? how exactly is it 'better' or great?

And yet people in blue states like California keep voting for higher taxes and redistribution of wealth. Kinda shows just how dumb liberal democrats really are :)

You really don’t get it, do you. No wonder you vote Democrat.

You are the idiots whining about straws...and everything else, find one where i ever whine, about it, I dont whine we pay your bills, just that you idiots live off the blues states money then f**king mock them, f**k you, and then where shirts that you would rather be russian than dem? its you idiots doing the whining about blue states... ftis wrong with you? seriously is there something we should know?

“Find one where I ever whine”

Read your own post below.

capitalist pay the bills for socialist

This graphic does not include federal spending on military bases. The largest employer in the state of California in the naval base in San Diego.

Correction: the fifth largest employer, not counting Edwards air base. (2015)

I know... mind blown. ;)

We can all point out the the dangers of either extreme. Socialism never has enough bread and capitalism has plenty but no one can afford it. Unbridled capitalism creates profit driven opportunists that heartless to the plight of the less fortunate. Unrestrained socialism fosters dependence and stagnancy, and fails to deliver what it promises. The US has historically compromised by engaging in an essentially capitalist system with some socialist solutions to certain problems, such as central banking. The real questions are, what are the goals that we are trying to achieve and what is the most appropriate mix to progress towards them. Neither extreme works. Ok. Lecture over.

Well said.

the only ones that cannot afford it are the one's that don't work

Might have to do with the Democrat city government or poor trade deals that put them out of business, not that "evil, incompetent" capitalism.

And WHY did they leave? Did you ever consider asking why?

Probably because they were losing money being in the city.

So why were they losing money? There should have been tons of cheaper labor to choose from in the city. Was it crime? Unsuitable demographics? Oppressively high taxes from the city, or stupid laws? Obviously if it would have been profitable to stay in the city, they wouldn't have spent a fortune moving.

do you know what a suburb IS?

plenty of jobs elsewhere if you want to work

So are you saying American companies should be in the business of providing jobs instead of products and services? That’s why the government keeps raising taxes yet continues to go deeper in debt. Few businesses would survive if they ran like a welfare service for their employees.

Few? More like absolutely zero.

They “provide” jobs in order to do business. But jobs isn’t the reason they are in business.

Just like I said, they’re not in business to provide jobs. The jobs they provide is a byproduct, so, when a business closes or moves, they are not obligated to take care of their former employees.

jfc... seriously do you have any school at all? Please tell us the story of Henry Ford

Yea, he built cars that the average person could afford. He didn’t open a factory strictly for unemployed people to come get a paycheck.

Auto manufacturers didn't move to the suburbs