One more act of defiance
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LOL, anti-authoritarian? Communism and collectivism operates on the tyranny of forced labor with wage and consumer controls. In other words, the government dictates your job, your pay, and how and where you live according to your WORTH to it. And if you disagree, off to the reeducation camps.
As far as public schools are concerned, technology will replace the system faster than the leftist realize. Especially as schools are quickly become nothing more than 8 hours of baby sitting for the offspring of the permanent welfare class.
I always like to ask folks who froth at the mouth whenever socialism is mentioned if they like the following:
-post WWII gov’t reduced price sweetheart deals on housing (the birth of suburbia)
-VA benefits for those that served
– Social Security
-(until Reagan did away with it)- actual free state college tuition
-Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway system, on the government’s dime so you can cross the country in a car in under say 4 days
Baby Boomers are the most mollycoddled gov’t handout addicted generation ever. Hence their spoiled petulant child like hubris.
But hey, don’t worry about facts. I guess when Wall St. Mammonites dictate everything about your life, it is ok.
Ohhh, if only you could take it ($) with you, Lulz. But you can’t.