A little while back, Iceland was held up to me as a socialist utopia, where "healthcare and education are considered human rights and equality means something." Well, Iceland has just gone bankrupt. Yes, the country. The entire country has gone bankrupt and is looking to borrow money from Russia. Yeah, good luck with that. They poison their own, what are they going to do to a country that doesn't pay back its loans? So where's the money for the "free" healthcare and education gonna come from now?
And by the way, equality means quite a bit here. It's written into our Constitution. The only difference is, we offer equality of opportunity, not outcome. It feels all swell for everyone to end up the same, no matter how much effort they put in or how effectively they use their talents. Frankly, if everyone is gonna end up the same as me, why should I try? It's another old problem of the socialist state that gets swept under the rug by people who just want to live in a world that's "fair." As I posted a long time ago, life ain't fair, Buttercup. Man up or go home.
Hat tip to The Common Room for the Iceland link.
3 comments:
Aren't socialist utopias grand? I can't *wait* for Obama to give us one just like Iceland's! Neato!
/sarcasm
"borrow from Russia?"
What are those Icelanders smoking?
I knew a northern country went bankrupt, but didn't catch the whole story. Iceland, how weird. Don't know much about their government.
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