I agree with the old Soviets only insofar as if, as with the modern United States and so many more, you're going to have a Socialist ECONOMY where both income and dole are wholly measured by the State (with or usually without merit), whether one works or is on the dole, who needs anybody who EXPECTS a paycheck regardless of productivity or usefulness (e.g., minimum union workers or statutorily prescribed worker levels), or EXPECTS clock-hugging tolerance, or EXPECTS eternal "safety nets" once cut from redundant jobs, or EXPECTS handouts from a "mommy State" as if to forever have a life of play and kids simply paid for by Federal funds, or so on ad infinitum?

Really, even though most Socialist economies run such that up to 20% are public/private workers/business people having equity/rights with the up to 80% rest in public-paid housing and on a dole (necessarily therefore with fewer rights due to doctrine of "idle hands"), those on the dole actually form their own redundancy and recurrently think no more of other humans...even those similarly situated to themselves...as other than expendible competitors for pantry fare, SNAP, EIC, 1.5 to 5 year whole lifestyle welfare plans, et al. And if you DON'T keep handing to them as they request they threaten to become anarchistic if random in their violence against officials/people who won't just hand more to them (which insofar as that makes sense of the April 2009 DHS reports on "Left" and "Right").

 

As from Newt Gingrich's 1994 "Contract With America" to date all government acta regardless of partisanship has shown us, the USA indeed IS and SHALL remain a Socialist economy no mere human or group(s) thereof can control or re-define participation within. Obviously, keeping people on doles does not ever keep unemployment from sliding as the doled do not want more than wheels, health care, tons of food/snacks, and constant multimedia entertainment...COULD be why only fast-food jobs seem to ever be created. And, well, just HOW MANY on doles ever DO join forces for more than simply keeping easy cash flowing? I know many do, but compared to the mass of social parasites, we're in the minority.

 

The old Soviets didn't like slackers, and neither did apolitical people coincidentally within their nation. Who does? If those on the dole won't volunteer even in their own food pantries, and act like spoiled brats "pulling lame" to milk health care/reverse mortgage and such as pretended "victims" only when the party's over, then I agree with the old Soviets that our great Socialist economy (and ANY nation's) can only be healed through helping sustain just those who have positive ideas.

 

In closing, look at this old parody which simplifies the issue, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hCCCRAcTAA&feature=related , and TELL me you don't agree with the sentiment yourself! It's the same kind of logic that would disagree with Congress accepting HUGE campaign checks from a Hollywood it bails out and wants draconian laws to protect as Socialism advances; paying to insulate do-nothings from those on doles who otherwise do nothing is "Uzbeck".