Stealth Camping or Layovering
This is a related subject to boondocking and dry camping. I'm not sure I've broached the subject here. We have stealth camped for decades and find it works well in cities large and small even with our...
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Naio wrote:
Thank you, bucky.
Yes, I was spoofing people on this forum who rail against 'socialism' but happily make use of medicare and social security. Those are socialist programs, and they work great. I think they should be expanded, not eliminated.
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that, due to inflation, almost every family collects MORE from those programs than they pay in. They are not savings accounts, although some unethical politicians will portray them that way to get around the unpalatability of socialism.
Your labeling of Social Security and Medicare as Socialism is a complete, but often made, misunderstanding of Socialism as a political entity.
The definition:
so·cial·ism
?s?SH??liz?m/
noun
noun: socialism
a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
Sorry but that in no way describes SS and Medicare. It describes Venezuela. (And only somewhat)
