7 ms·
This also amazes me too. The US has neither a working, efficient health care nor education system, but blames others for "socialism"?
by soc88 14y ago
This also amazes me too. The US has neither a working, efficient health care nor education system, but blames others for "socialism"?
- KaoruAoiShiho 14y agoNot sure about the health care system, but the non-socialist portion of the US education system is the best in the world, and only the socialist portion of it is terrible. I find those to be reasonable grounds to dislike socialism.
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoMajor public universities in the United States, known world-over for their excellence: * University of California, Berkeley * University of Washington, Seattle * University of Massachusetts, Amherst * Texas A&M * University of Wisconsin, Madison Shall I go on?
- kbolino 14y agoTo call any of those "socialist", when the paid-by-the-student cost has skyrocketed and the paid-by-the-government cost has plummeted, is a bit of a stretch.
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoFair point, but they were world-class universities when the government subsidized them, too. There's no inverse correlation between government support of a university and academic quality, being my point.
- kbolino 14y agoAgreed, and I think KaoruAoiShiho's original "socialist" comment was about K-12 anyway.