Bullshit. Let's take Venezuela, the latest failure in socialism
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-39302506
Flour is rationed by the government to bakers in Venezuela because the government can't import enough and it is too expensive to buy privately--not to mention the government banned that.
Bread prices are controlled by the government, and the price is below the cost of production.
Bakers chose to make pastries and other non-bread items rather than bread.
The government stepped in and started arresting bakery owners and confiscating their shops because they wouldn't make bread.
The government then appointed politically reliable persons with no knowledge of baking to run them.
There is a massive shortage of bread in Venezuela...
If you are poor in Venezuela (now something like 90% of the population) you are eligible to get the CLAP. That is, a food box from the government.
You can get one a week or so apart depending on your loyalty to the regime and local political operatives. The contents vary widely based on what the government can afford, what's available, and how connected you are.
Yea, sure. On the White Mountain Apache res, everyone over 15 gets a big check from casino earnings every 6 months. The teenagers go out and buy a new vehicle and then spend the rest on drugs and booze. They usually wreck the vehicle. They also tend to drop out of school because they're, in their eyes, rich.
Being given a nice government house means you know when you trash it, they'll give you another. Drive through one of the res'es like I do fairly regularly (in my case the Gila River Res and Sacaton) to see that the towns are low rent slums with trashed homes, buildings covered in graffiti, and basically major crime zones.
The Native Americans don't help each other. The tribal leaders are usually corrupt and greedy politicians who don't give a flying fuck about "their people" while the other 90% of the tribe lives in abject poverty most of the time.
Those aren't socialist programs. They don't benefit specific individuals at the expense of others. Socialist programs are things like welfare, WIC, Earned Income Credit, and the like. There are many rural places where things like fire and ambulance services are privately operated and paid for by subscription.
https://www.firehouse.com/operations...use-burn-again
This is where you need to be aware of things and pay your fair share for a service. That isn't socialism where money is taken from some and given to others. A fee for service is not socialism. So, fire, police, sheriff, EMT, and like services are not socialism.
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