Comments on: Successful Socialism

By: Brett Favre Economics | SwiftEconomics.com

Brett Favre Economics | SwiftEconomics.com — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:29:48 +0000

[...] see, the NFL is socialist. That’s right, the men of the gridiron are a bunch of pinko commies. Unlike Major League [...]

By: gkn

gkn — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:30:50 +0000

There is one aspect of NFL socialism that you ignore here - the shameless way that NFL teams sponge off the taxpayer. According to statistics from the California legislature, the American taxpayer has stumped up $4 billion to subsidize new stadiums since 1992.

I remember when I lived in San Diego in the 1990s - whenever the attentance at a Chargers’ game was below 60,000, the local taxpayers had to make up the difference. Un-bloody-believable, especially to a socialist pantywaist Limey like me. Maybe the Chargers could have guaranteed their revenue by, oh, I don’t know, playing well enough to attract fans to the stadium? Or was that asking too much of the poor dears?

By: r

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:41:54 +0000

the european union is a socialist failure? maybe you should let them know with the euro costing a $1.46. the post best illustrates that capitalism isnt the answer to all problems just like socialism isnt the answer to all problems either. its not black and white and that simple like many conservatives seem to like EVERYTHING to be so they can act like they understand the world and convince themselves that they alone have all the answers and call everyone that disagrees a stupid hippie leftwing america hating moonbat blah blah blah.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:16:14 +0000

“Major League Baseball is raw capitalism. Several years ago, the New York Yankees had a player payroll of 200 million dollars. The Montreal Expos had a player payroll of 9 million dollars. You read that correctly. Why should someone play for one million for the Expos when the Yankees would pay 20 million? The result is that the Yankees are perennial contenders for a championship, and the Expos now cease to exist.”

Not entirely Eric. Any MLB team that has a payroll above $100 million, has to pay a luxury tax. The Yankees, and Red Sox pay a huge luxury tax for every dollar above the mark. (~75%) That tax money is dispersed equally to the other teams. Money that help teams like KC and Pittsburgh. So there is socialism- even in baseball.

By: chach

chach — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:34:53 +0000

I LOVE reading the posts from yous guys and gal; (youz guys?) (er, um, yiz guys?), oh what the heck! I’m sorry, that’s just the Jersey boy in me speaking ( er typing ). I love to hear, and read English spoken correctly, as most of yiz do, but I ain’t no stickler for it though. ( Sorry blogmasterpg; I am not writing in proper English because I am just teasing the other writers.) I have taken too long to get to the point of this letter though; and it is to condemn Socialism in the larger scope of governing countries, and therefore its’ citizenry. My one qualifying factor is to have been born to Cuban parents in 1957 and so hearing from them ,how Socialism destroys a persons’ will to succeed and accomplish anything of relevance; because there is no reward to do so. The lazy individual who does nothing, receives the same accolades as the one who works to exhaustion. Socialism serves only to rob individuals of their very soul, all in the name of the collective good ” of the people” Hey, blogmasterpg; if you have time, you may want to look at videos of Fidel Castro and Mussolini in a side by side comparison; and you will see such similarities between them, because Fidel was said to idolize Mussolini. (the source of that info excapes me but I believe it was the History Channel here in the USA, many , many years ago). For all I can remember , it could easily have been Dan Blather;( er sorry;) Dan Rather, narrating because of the tone of admiration for Castro. Now as for the socialist ideal surviving and/or thriving in the NFL; I refer to Erics’ comment that the commish (yet another Jersey-ism, dammit) cannot use the military to enforce its’ rules; just the fact that any one franchise not willing to play along will simply not be allowed to share in the riches either. Even my beloved AL DAVIS can’t get away with every thing he wants ( sorry about the “beloved” remark there Eric! ) Okay, so maybe not the modern day Al Davis ; it’s the one from the Jurassic period of the NFL that I admire. =). In the realm of Capitalism, I can work harder or smarter in an effort to earn more money to purchase either a single ticket, or season tickets to any NFL team I so choose. Socialism would dictate that I work even harder so that my comrades of the state be able to modernize the stadia to entertain dignitaries of other socialist sister countries. So in summation; lady and gentlemen of this blog of Erics’ that we’ve come to admire ; Socialism sucks, and Capitalism is good!

By: Lord Nazh©

Lord Nazh© — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:28:28 +0000

What the hell are you doing making a legitimate post on the success of the socialist model?
Nice post Eric, remember human nature is taken out of the NFL model completely, about the only way for socialism/communism to work.

By: totaltransformation

totaltransformation — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:27:43 +0000

Been watching football for many years and I didn’t know any of that.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:20:49 +0000

Hello Eric,
Loved this. Clear and understandable thru and thru. Also entertaining. Truth is Truth and it that is all. The lie can always be found if you have the will and the desire to find it. Hitlerl was was wrong. If you tell a lie enough it will become truth. That can work but if their are people who want to find the truth sooner or later the truth will be found. As is the case with WWII Germany we have found the truth and are finding more all the time. It took people from that time all the way to this time to make it happen. Let us never lose the desire to find the truth!

By: micky2

micky2 — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:33:09 +0000

Does this gentleman want Eric to post in Spanish or Italian ?

By: Blogmasterpg

Blogmasterpg — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:09:49 +0000

Hi; do you remember me? I’m writing from Italy. Your posts are very interessants, buut too many longs! Expecial for me ( a non-english reader ) it’s very hard to read all and to understand aoo 2what you want to say… I take a tip to you: open a new Blog and add in the same pot, but only the principals things; a resume-Blog of that one.. I know now in U.S. there are many ispano-speakers and most of them read english but not very well:I think my proposal is not totally stupid. Good bye and God bless you!