22 Jul 2014 11:16 am
Cannonpointer » 18 Jul 2014 4:55 am » wrote:The majority of nations which made Heritage's list have socialized health care, socialized retirement and socialized higher education - the stuff that heritage and the contards who worship there call socialism.
It seems that socialist countries are more economically free than capitalist ones - who knew?
Oh, wait - I did.
1Hong Kong
90.1
0.8
2Singapore
89.4
1.4
3Australia
82.0
-0.6
4Switzerland
81.6
0.6
5New Zealand
81.2
-0.2
6Canada
80.2
0.8
7Chile
78.7
-0.3
8Mauritius
76.5
-0.4
9Ireland
76.2
0.5
10Denmark
76.1
0.0
You made your point by listing the same things we have in order to label them countries with socialism. Did the report state that all land and companies are Government owned or are operating under tight management of the government? If not they are not a socialist government. The word socialism is bandied abut with very unclear meaning. Most of the time people are misusing the word to look only at part of what is going on. Communism is a special case of socialism using Marx. Both have government ownership of everything.