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Originally Posted by cykoe6
I can only hope you are pretending to be this stupid. Providing for national defense and controlling the borders are some of the few legitimate purposes of government. They hardly constitute socialism. Farm subsidies on the other hand are clearly socialism and are good examples of big government programs which should be ended.
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Here are two definitions of socialism
noun
1. a political theory advocating state ownership of industry
2. an economic system based on state ownership of capital
The police, fire, military, schools and general city/state operations are socialized systems. These are things that everyone pays into whether you use them or not and they are run by the government on our behalf. You can argue we all use the military or the city/state operations, indirectly, but in the end we don't get a choice. We pay for it and it is run by the government. There are many others. Like farm subsidies, or for that matter any kind of corporate welfare. The welfare system in general and food stamps/Medicare and social security are all socialized systems. The difference is most of these things have been fed to use in a way that we don't look at them in that way. Just because we like them and use them and approve of them doesn't mean they are not socialist system.
some socialized things can be and are good. others need to be done away with. The trick is deciding which is which.