Originally Posted by
excon
Hello again, smoothy:
If your police WEREN'T socialized, when you had a robbery, you'd call up your private police force if you could afford 'em. We had 'em, once. They were called vigilantes.. But, we decided to spread the risk (socialize it), and hire a police force that worked for ALL of us. THAT is quintessential socialism. The fact that they're local, and not national, doesn't change a thing.
If the meat inspectors WEREN'T socialized, you'd buy your meat where you had your own PRIVATE inspectors checking out the stuff. That, or you'd be taking your chances.. But, we as a society decided to SOCIALIZE meat inspection, and put the government in charge of it.
It's socialism, plain and simple. And, you LIKE it, so you don't wanna call it socialism.
excon