There is no such thing as “socialism at its finest.”
Infrastructure building was funded 100% by the extorted proceeds of capitalism. You didn’t read the middle because you’re not very good at arguing.

You seem to have swallowed the Scandianvian Kool-Aid so wholeheartedly I fail to see what effect facts or common sense could have on you at this point. Two factors are usually cited by the left to justify their view that the Scandinavian model is superior:

1) Surveys which claim to show that Scandinavians are “happier”…

The great Depression was NOT caused by free market capitalism and would NOT have happened without the intervention of the Federal Reserve, which had in the years leading up to it created an artificial boom with easy money and credit. Busts are inevitable after such state-created booms. They created a bank credit…

If you think that public service jobs, i.e. diverting money from capital expenditure to create jobs for the sake of jobs, actually creates economic growth then you have a startling ignorance of economics. This diversion of capital, along with FDR’s other anti-business policies, actually prolonged the Depression.…

If plain facts are “extreme” then OK.

All of these things could potentially be handled by the private sector, which allocates resources more efficiently and generally does everything better than the state.

Marx didn’t invent socialism. Let’s just nip that in the bud.

Next, NASA. Every dollar spent by NASA is a dollar that would otherwise be invested in private capital. If you want to claim that NASA produces a net gain in wealth then you would have to show that their ROI is more than if that same money had stayed in the…

Nope, capitalism has improved the lives of everyone across the board. You don’t need to own property. Compare the living standards of the “poor” in capitalist countries with the poor in countries which have not enjoyed the benefits of liberal democracy and free trade. Compare the living standards of the “poor” now…