speaking of lies, nobody is 'monopolizing' the system. there's plenty of private schools for the rich to attend.
a monopolized, government-run, health care system could reduce costs, increase coverage, and improve the health care system of a country. it can also reduce quality and all those negative things you keep blabering on about...
but generally speaking people that are covered by socialized medicine are better covered. even in the US, where Medicare can be used as an example.
and the only one that keeps bringing up the Communist Manifesto here is you. you seem to be obsessed with it..... are you a communist???
Public schools represent a monopoly of sorts. Can you or I start a school and offer people the option of coming to our school, paying us for this service they are WILLINGLY purchasing from us and NOT paying for the "government school" they do NOT want? Where's THAT option? Absent THAT option, government schools ARE a monopoly.
You seem to have gone to the Uncle Buck school of Politeness. Let's be a little more civil okay?
What I am "blabbering" about is something you nor the other so-called liberal contingent here ever quite address.
Your desired systems, public schools, "free" healthcare etc. have their basis in FORCED participation. IF those systems gave the value you claim they do, why must government force their "customers" to pay for them? If they were really all that good, wouldn't people flock to them like they do to a successful private business? .....I await your specific answer on that question.
Your justifications for the systems you advocate boil down to redistributing wealth by force. You can dress your arguments up with all the "good" outcomes you imagine will happen, mountains of statistics, side stepping arguments, insults etc. but you never can get around that statism runs contrary to liberty...always. Statism IS force, NOT freedom. You advocate using force against peaceful people.
I bring up the Communist manifesto to illustrate the similarity in education goals. The tenth plank of the Communist manifesto involves
State run schools. So, no I am not a Communist. You are the one that endorses a Communist platform, forced funded public education, not me.
I'm a Voluntaryist. Despite the many attempts of people here to Strawman my beliefs, I will reiterate them. I believe you have the right to make decisions that affect you, but that your rights end where mine begin and vice versa. I respect your right to own yourself, your property and your labor. Live and let live. Consensual transactions that do not involve coercion or fraud are honest, thus I reject statism
and institutionalized violence renamed as "charity". Charity to be charity must be freely given.
If I were political and sometimes I am when trying to work towards incrementally shrinking government, I lean toward Libertarianism, but any institution like government that says it provides "choice" by allowing people to elect their master is designed to fool people. I find much fault with both modern day Democrats and Republicans.
I reject the idea that making somebody do what I think is best for them is within the province of my control, the exception being if they are violating another persons right to be left alone, defensive force is acceptable. I reject the idea that any human being or group of human beings has any right to initiate force, even if it's dressed up under the guise of "majority will" or "that's what's best for society" or other such rationalizations to use government as your strongman.
Yes, I believe in DEFENSIVE force, but think state sponsored violence is wrong and I am committed to not enabling that. State sponsored violence both FOREIGN and DOMESTIC is wrong. Many liberals rail on about foreign wars and how THAT kind of violence is bad...then out of the other side of their mouth they clamor to use government sponsored violence here in the United States against their neighbor when he rejects giving up his labor towards something he doesn't endorse and his liberal neighbor insists he fund.
Your actions indicate you will not only enable state sponsored violence, by endorsing forced redistibution and participation, you will load the gun for them. You cannot achieve "good" through forcing peaceful people to live the way YOU want them to, without the basis being mired in force. Liberals never quite address that and reject my more peaceful approach or rely on rationalizations and dismissive insults when their cognitive dissonance kicks in.
The truth that you and others here REPEATEDLY FAIL to address or acknowledge...My methods are founded in peace, yours are not...deal with it.
I'm not here to get my rocks off "winning arguments" or insulting people. I'm here to see things for the way they are and deal with people honestly. Your desired outcome is good, you profess to want to help people, I commend you for that. Your method of achieving a "good" is wrong though, morally wrong.
I'm not here to defend the rich or the poor, I'm here to defend EVERYONE'S right of self determination and advance those ideas that lead to freedom and personal choice for peaceful people, be they rich or poor. The outcomes in life for each of us may vary, some will achieve much, some will be unable to get our of their own way thru laziness, bad luck, or accident of birth. Helping the downtrodden is good if you desire to. I volunteer, but would never dream of forcing you to. It has been my experience that many people do not show up at volunteer projects...too busy bitching about what somebody else has I guess. By the way how many homeless people did YOU feed last week? I feed 3, housed 2.
You seem to be here to champion "solutions" by telling others what they will or will not do. That strikes me as contradictory on a Pot forum, where most people seem to "get" self ownership regarding the Cannabis issue. Why don't you "get" that if somebody has a right to own THEIR body, they also have a right to determine what they will or will not do with their labor, their money or their property?
In short, leave others alone and leading by example makes more sense to me than asking government to make peaceful people comply with MY vision of what they should do.
State education and central banking are two pillars of a communist society. Hitler just loved state education 
fascism or socialism, no thanks I'll pass.
