I can't take it anymore!
I am sure that many of you have heard about Venezuela today. If you have not, they have imposed mandatory 60 day farm labor among its citizens. If this is not slavery, I do not know what it is. One of the critiques against capitalism is that it will inevitably lead to slavery. Well in the past week Venezuela has imposed slavery among its citizens and NBA bench warmers have been signing contracts worth tens of millions of dollars.
My disliking of liberals and democratic socialists stems from their self proclamation of being intellectuals. Their arrogance is self blinding and they cannot see that their policies do not work. Lets take Keynesian economics for an example. In the early 1920's after WW1 the economy imploded far worse than it did in 1929. It imploded because millions of soldiers returned home and the military factories had nothing to produce. Unemployment was much higher and the stock market had a greater crash than it did in 1929. President Harding did absolutely nothing and let the free market work. Within 2 years the economy was back to full employment. Keynesians say it was an economic miracle and to pay no attention to it.
The majority of people believe that WW2 got us out of the depression. One of these people happens to be the world's worst economist, Paul Krugman. Krugman also said after the dot-com bubble popped that the US needed a housing bubble to get us back on track. Well, since making that comment the US experienced a housing bubble, and 2 wars. The economy ended up in the dumpster and Liberals still can't see their economic theory of large government intervention in the economy does not work. If you want want more examples of Keynesian economics not working take a look at what has happend to China, Venezuela, and Greece in the past year.
If democratic socialism is so great, why was Greece bailed out 3 times by the EU? Maybe it doesn't work. When you have more takers than makers you have a problem. The only reason socialism is working in Europe is because the EU can print unlimited amounts of money. Thus stealing from the people their purchasing power. If governments could not print money out of thin air and had to live within their means democratic socialism would have never made it this far.
The problem with democratic socialism is the law of scarcity. Scarcity is when a person has limited resources but unlimited wants. It is human nature that once you get something you want something else. That is exactly what democratic socialism is. The never ending want of government goods which is undoubtedly unsustainable and will fail every time.
We all know that liberals never make any mistakes. But it would be nice if you would look back on what effect your policies have on reality.