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Friday, June 20, 2008

When Socialism Isn’t A Bad Thing

Got this joke in an email from a friend:

Ivan dies and his soul is sent to hell. In front of the gate a devil asks him, “Do you want to go to the capitalist hell or the socialist hell?”

Ivan is thinking about how to decide when he hears his friend Vasily calling to him from behind the gate. “Hey, Ivan! Come to our hell. In the capitalist hell they’ll throw you in a large cauldron full of boiling tar where you’ll burn eternally.”

“And in the socialist hell?”

“The arrangement is the same, only here they either run out of tar or they run short of fuel—and when both tar and fuel are available, the devils have a union meeting.”

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Avatar for Mark Jaquith

Har har har. Got me to click!

I’ve always said that government inefficiency was a blessing.  Imagine if the government was “good” at running our lives.  Everyone would be for it.

Mark Jaquith on June 20, 2008 at 09:27 am
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A friend of mine has a saying on his IM profile: Be glad we don’t get all the government we pay for.


When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Rob on June 20, 2008 at 09:38 am

But somehow I can’t imagine a union meeting being any less painful than burning.....  :^)

Bike Bubba on June 20, 2008 at 12:12 pm

But somehow I can’t imagine a union meeting being any less painful than burning....

Just think of the former as a minor league version of the latter.


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on June 20, 2008 at 12:27 pm
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