Random Bloggings

I’m sick of hearing about our country turning into a socialist society.

We’ve never had a purely capitalistic society, and if that’s what you want, then by all means, bring on the monopoly and worker exploitation and see what happens to your benefits and compentsation when there is zero regulation around business.

And socialism, when you distill it down, amounts to the government taking your money and deciding what to do with it and how you will (or won’t) benefit from it.

Hmm, that sounds kind of like taxes to me.

But guess what, I like roads and stuff.

Socialism is the boogeyman in the closet, we already live in a hybrid socialistic/capitalistic society. Is it perfect? Noooo, is there a perfect model? Nooooo.

Last time I checked the cold war was over and McCarthy was not running about anymore calling anyone everyone a communist. Let’s have reasonable discussions about these things and leave the boogeyman under the bed where he belongs. Besides, I bet if you discontinued Social Security and all Medicare benefits some of these folks crying foul over socialism would think twice once they’d lost their source of income and healthcare benefits.

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I like grammar, although I couldn’t tell you what a dangling participle is without Google’s help, I can recognize poorly constructed sentences and illegal use of punctuation. My least favorite abuse of punctuation is the quotation marks used as emphasis instead of quoting something.

Drives me “mad”.

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Ran across this article on WSJ article on Arts Journal, “A Manifesto for Slow Communication“

Based on the title, I agree, but I bookmarked it to read later because I was too busy checking Twitter and writing this blog before I go to bed.