Every time I hear a conservative politician banging on about the free market and how the government which governs best is the one which governs least I want to get out my Sweeney Todd razor and send them to the mincer.
In the US at the moment, with the multi-trillion dollar baleout of their financial system, they're equating it to being under a socialist regime, the State buying into former private companies, effectively nationalizing them. To Yanks this is equivalent to having news of your house repossession on the front page of the newspaper. It's a national shame, this giant capitalist emporium being bought over by the taxpayer.
Whenever I meet a conservative who's on their hind legs talking about socialism and individualism, I ask who fights their wars and who arrests their criminals? Is it a privately run army, or a national force totally paid for by the taxpayer?
Answer: (b) That's socialism, that is.
