NEWSFLASH!!! DATELINE CANADA!!!!!

Canadian Indians theaten to block CN Railroad mainline railroutes in protest of poverty, lack of education opportunity and poor healthcare!

HEY! Wait just a doggone minute! How is this possible? Canada is a socialist society. A Classless society(no pun intended) with nationalized industries and free universal healthcare! How can there possibly be a class of people left behind in such a progressive country boasting such an envied and utopian societal system? I'll tell you why..Socialism doesn't work. Free and universal health care is a sham, an illusion. There is no such thing as a classless society because there will always be the have's and the have not's. There will always be persons in power to subjugate those who are not. It has always been that way and it always will be and that won't change because the "feel good now" folks think it it should.

Canadians pay outrageously high taxes to fund all the "free" stuff they seem to enjoy and it still doesn't work the way it was intended and Canada doesn't have the criminally duplicitous, system abusing population America has. It doesn't have illegal immigration problems(THEY know what to do about that crap), they don't have the sheer population numbers of America and still the system is chaotic and uneven. Imagine the problems such a system would face here at home.

Socialism, as a rule, spurs laziness and lack of motivation. If you are never going to get ahead why try so hard? If the people are all supposed to be so equal, let the work output be the same way. Why work any harder than the other guy? Go put in your eight, go back to your home that looks like everyone elses and use what little you have left after taxes to drink the Moosehead you bought at the state liquor store. Then when you get sick, hurt or addicted to the Moosehead, you can can get in line at the local healthcare store, hope they decide you actually need to be seen and your condition warrants the dispatch of a doctor and if it does THEN you can put your name on the list to actually SEE a doctor. Great system, Huh? And theirs has been in place for quite some time.

All the supporters of universal healthcare complain(and rightly so)about the ineptitude of every single government program on the books but they want this same government running their healthcare? They can't even run the programs that have clear cut guidelines right now and they want to turn the medical care of a sick child over to this bloated, self serving bueracracy?

My former son-in-law came here from Denmark, another bastion of socisalistic prominence, in 1999. He payed over 50%..FIFTY PERCENT in income taxes to fund programs he never used, and in some cases, wasn't even eligible to use! Where, when you turn eighteen you go to university, trade school or the military. Those are your choices. Not going to work at McDonalds or the railroad, just those three items. They have universal free healthcare there too and it is no more reliable than a Yugo. He has no desire to ever return to Denmark.

What about the educational problems faced in that classless society in Canada? I guess their "no child left behind" program is no better off than ours. Maybe Ted Kennedy was largely responsible for theirs too. Like all government programs it is a failure that can be cited, honestly, as a reason not to pursue such a program, and cited, erroneously, as a shining example of how we should seek government intervention for public problems. I choose the former.

Classless societies, free healthcare and equal education for all. All are fantasies. It just doesn't work. Is the system we have here, now, perfect? Hell no! It's a mess, but at least it doesn't cost another quarter of our income for us to be no better off, and likely, worse off, and we get to, for the most part, choose our own doctors!

So next time you get all warm and fuzzy about these socialist examples, why don't you try looking at the whole picture and do it with a bit more objectivity before telling me how wonderful it all is.