Happy Orange Gnome

Hi United Statesian politicians. A lot of you have been knocking Socialism. This doesn’t make much sense to me. Varying degrees of socialism are present in all systems of government. For a country to be completely free of socialism they would have to remove all government and privatise everything. The entire point of a having a government at all is to centralise power and to collect and redistribute money and resources. So my point here will not be whether your government should be socialist or not, but rather that it should more socialist.

So, here we go, kiddies, some reasons why socialism is the awesomest.

Health care for everyone. This one pretty much goes without saying. Basically, if I were to crawl out of my igloo, slip on the ice and crack my head open,  I can get me noggin patched up for free.  Plus, medication costs less for when we do have to pay for it. No $80 bottles of Baby Tylenol for us. There are very few situations where I would have to choose between my health and not being in a lifetime of debt.

School funding by size. A 1000 student school in a poor area gets the same funding from the government as a 1000 student student school in a rich area. Well, it’s a bit more complicated than that, involving some sort of strange formula, but since funding is based on need (not property taxes), most of the disparity in quality of education is from whether or not the school hired douchebags as teachers.

Federally operated prisons. Since no one profits from people reoffending (the goverment just loses more money), there is more of an incentive to rehabilitate people. Seriously, why would anyone privatise their prisons? The mind fucking boggles. The same goes for privatising the military. I hate you people so much.

I think I had a few more examples, but I’m getting tired and incoherent. Hit more for some selected jabberings about other stuff I hate in the US right now.

Sooooooooo, Obama is supporting a divide between “civil unions” for gays and “marriages” for straights. Didn’t that whole “separate but equal” thing end horribly that last time they tried it? I dont get why this whole semantics argument is even happening. If it looks like duck and quacks like, then it’s duck. It doesn’t matter if it’s a duck happening between two men.

The Simpons Treehouse of Horror should be on before Halloween. Your national sport (baseball) is stupid and I don’t want to watch it. Stop preempting my shows.

None of you are allowed to come up to Canada if McCain wins. Unless you bring me candy. And some of that food with the trans fats.

Addendum for the unimformed: I am a Canadian citizen. I am too young to remember the US /USSR cold war. Socialism and communism are different forms of government.

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