Liberal Forum

RichClem » 25 Jul 2014 6:25 pm » wrote: it's the most Capitalist.

Yes, it is. And the predictable brutality of the political system which enforces the predictable plunder of laissez faire parasitism is - as one would expect - writ large in the lives of the enormous underclass whose members are born and die in government tenements, whose only access to health care is a system funded at the lowest rate of any such system on earth, subject to corporal punishment in the public square for the most minor offenses, and protected by no written charter from the excess of a political system which is the bane of human rights watch dogs.

You now share an advantage that socialists have always had over you, Clem: We have always been able to look at history - at the USSR and China - and see how wrong things can go when we get what we wished for. Now you can do that, too, Clem. Now you can see what it looks like, to live under the system you have agitated for. How would that be for you, Clem - to live in a government tenement from cradle to grave, with no charter of rights, subject to the whims of a brutal dictatorship in the shadow of obscene wealth that you are told can be yours if you pull yourself up by bootstraps that are not currently available in your size?

If the free market in Singapore is REALLY free to all, then why are 88% of its citizens frozen out, forced to live from cradle to grave in government housing that they do not own and have no hope of ever owning? If Singapore is so much freer than we are, why are home ownership rates among the lowest on earth, civil rights among the least on earth, human trafficking rates among the highest on earth and punishments for minor offenses among the most brutal on earth?

HOW DOES THAT EQUATE WITH "FREEDOM," CLEM?