Pitch linked to a blog post of someone who was appreciative of the the WPA projects in Colby, KS.
His experience is a strong rebuke to the cranks who argue that a federal economic stimulus package is “socialist” and therefore bad.
Most people who are throwing around the word “socialism” have no idea what it is and I am not here to explain (I had to take classes on socialism and lived through some of it so that makes me an expert). On the other hand, I don’t think posting a few pictures and nostalgic comments makes a for a “strong rebuke” of anything, so I thought I’d post a few pictures of my own just to prove a point.
This is what socialism looks like:
This is what happens when the government owns the means of production and fails to match supply with demand. Do these pictures prove anything? Only that for every photo there is a counter-photo, and for every nostalgic memory, there is one you would not like to relive.
*photos linked from this blog.
I thought your main argument against the stimulus package was that you haven’t read it, don’t vote, and heard somebody say there was pork and corruption in it.
“This is what socialism looks like:”
Correction – that is what socialism in the U.S.S.R. looked like. Maybe they were doing it wrong.
@Burrowowl: actual senator said on TV that there is pork in it but we shouldn’t care.
@XO, they were actually doing it by the book but it didn’t work, they had to go back to capitalism for few years in late 20’s and send few million people to camps, but that’s exactly my point, anybody can post pictures and memories, they don’t prove or rebuke anything. Also I never heard anyone from depression and WPA era say “I’d like to go through that again”, must not have been that wonderful
Too many folks argue “either” “or” when in fact hybrid systems work the best. Pure socialism will fail as will pure unfettered capitalism.
Vat! No Borscht???
Oh Noooooooooo
@Meesha: Funny, over 60 US Senators said they thought the bill was a good idea when they passed it. This must have been an extra-super credible Senator you heard. Or was he just saying something you wanted to believe anyway, and now you refer to him to lend credibility to your knee-jerk cynicism?
This was a senior senator Schumer from NY and yes, he thought it was a good idea. I linked the clip elsewhere. you can look it up on youtube. He said something like “the chattering class” should not question what we put in this bill.
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Those photos look like Stalinism to me, not socialism. Real honest-to-God socialists have a record of building economies that kick ass….Emilia-Romagna’s economy for example. 4 Million people. 115,000 MANUFACTURING firms providing hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs. Ain’t no reich-wing RepubliKKKan that can match that record. So, what do Italian commies know about freeing up the energies of a market economy that the reich-wing here in Kansas City doesn’t know?