It was a good piece on Political Insider today....topic? "It’s Easy Being A Socialist In A Country You Don’t Have To Escape From."
The general problem with absolute socialist countries....is that you reach some level where you have burned through the company-owed money, and go to private money....then wake up to realize there's no one much to finance your 'gifts' to the public. From that point on....you are in Venezuela.
You can always claim some success with marginal socialism....like Finland, Iceland or Germany....where you talk socialist a lot but your entire landscape is capitalist in nature.
I was in a office once where the topic came up....where would we escape to....if we could up and leave the US. No one really voiced Mexico or Canada. In fact.....most voiced places like the Philippines, Australia, Italy or Greece.....more for the scenic stuff and hospitality....than the economy business.
I've always been of a mind that giving some idiot kid (age 20) four months of time to travel around the globe...would bring 90-percent of people to the reality that it's hard to find a better economic place to live, than the US. I will admit....if it were just for scenery or food....I'd be in Italy in a heartbeat.
