{"id":51,"date":"2009-12-22T18:48:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T18:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixermuse.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2014-11-15T10:12:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T17:12:03","slug":"socialism-and-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/capitalism-and-marxism\/socialism-and-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialism and Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US is already a mix of socialism and capitalism.\u00a0 If socialism is always evil then I guess not only are you against the recent government action to buy into private banks and bail out the economy (by the socialist Bush administration) but you also want to get rid of social security, Medicare, Medicaid and\u00a0 the Department of Education.\u00a0 Is any government intervention wrong i.e., Iraq and Afghanistan?\u00a0 Why would you stop anywhere left of Adam Smith?\u00a0 Heck, why have his \u201climited government\u201d?\u00a0 What not privatize the military and local government?\u00a0 Hey, why not get rid of all government?\u00a0 Can&#8217;t the market self-govern?\u00a0 How far do you folks want to go with this?\u00a0 You seem to throw these terms around as some sort of code words but I would like to know how far you want to go with the direction you imply.\u00a0 Where would you stop and why?\u00a0 It is always easy to make negative statements but much harder to think through the ramifications of your implications and make positive statements of your ideals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US is already a mix of socialism and capitalism.\u00a0 If socialism is always evil then I guess not only are you against the recent government action to buy into private banks and bail out the economy (by the socialist Bush administration) but you also want to get rid of social security, Medicare, Medicaid and\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[47,205],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-and-marxism","category-politics","tag-capitalism","tag-socialism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3942,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}