Originally Posted by bluedog

If you are talking about extreme socialism you are talking about the first baby steps of communism. It all starts out with the best of intentions...until it gets to point were it starts to reel beneath the pressure of its own weight...then the corruption and the greed of appointed leadership comes into full view as they see their precious idea start to crumble. If you can find one example of any socialist republic of history that actually works with out making either the people or its military suffer please present the example there of....and the Canadian example is useless due to the fact that you people take advantage of the US and its Military Strength to protect you from the evils of this world...the same with the most of Europe....as the US has had to bail them out of many military jams. BD