Editor,
In his March 4 letter “Socialism won’t work,” Ed Kahl managed to say “socialism” without saying “Venezuela.” It’s still baby steps, but it looks like we are managing to educate him. Mr. Kahl fails to explain why paying money to insurance companies is noble and uplifting, but paying less money to the government for better health care impinges on our freedoms. He fails to explain how regulating a company to keep it from dumping wastes into our drinking water means that the government owns the company. Mr. Kahl really should provide an example of “stifling conformity” and of a government official who became rich and powerful from his job. Socialism works. Ask the British who kept their National Health Service even as their economy was reeling from the oil shocks of the late 70s.
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Very well put, Chuck! Let us also remind the uneducated anti-socialists that both fire services, law and order, port authorities, library services, infra structure, public works, street cleaning, the military, Medicare, basic education and many others are forms of socialism, - meaning run and paid for by the government, for the benefit of all and not only a select few. That works, - even here, and has nothing to do with communism. – or Venezuela!
It is just when you give all those institutions you mention collective bargaining rights, you get 100's of billions in unfunded obligations that will bankrupt California within 15 years.
A.K.A. Nostradamus.
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