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So you're complaining about fire, and your solution is more fire? How about some water?

http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/epipen-monopoly-hint-not-r...

I know you're just using it as an off-hand metaphor but fire is actually one of the most useful tools in preventing and fighting large fires (e.g. forest fires).

> But liberals will blame capitalism anyway, not government.

The "no true capitalism" of the libertarians ? Communists also claim USSR was "no true communism". A doctrine or ideology is never "pure" or "perfect" in practice since men aren't.

The only difference being that places with more liberty are more prosperous, and places with more socialism are less prosperous. There doesn't seem to be an optimal 'middle-ground'.

Universal healthcare is not socialism. Tax-paid social services aren't socialism.

Socialism is the collectivized ownership of the means of production and a centralized plan-based economy with fixed production quotas and prices.

Scandinavia isn't socialist. The Eastern Bloc in Cold War times was socialist.

Social democracy != socialism.

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