Dear Mr. Berko: Please give our investment club your opinion on buying Western Alliance Bancorp. We may sell 350 shares of GM to buy it. Also, we’d like your thoughts on how the U.S. would serve its citizens better under a socialistic government.
— J.H., Oklahoma City
Dear J.H.: Holy Moses, Mary, Buddha and Allah, we already have a socialist government. Consider public housing, school lunches, child support, Medicare and Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment insurance, farm support, ad nauseum. The government’s slowly increasing the means that give it greater control over how Americans run their lives. And many in Congress believe government is moving too slowly toward socialism.
The nature of government is to control as many resources as possible, expanding its size and allocating those resources among its citizens who eventually become dependent upon federal and state programs. What a marvelous idea. By relieving ourselves of responsibilities, we’ll rely upon government guaranteeing our care, comfort and survival. Americans want that.
Once we’ve become institutionally dependent, socialism’s next objective is industry. This includes our country’s farms and factories, which become the property of the government, so the government controls the production and distribution of goods, not private enterprise. This seems to be the long-term goal of some members of Congress. And because of increasing voter stupidity, ignorance and laziness, this is closer to reality than ever before. The new term for this consequence is “democratic socialism,” but it could become a game changer.
