>Dragan just wants everyone here in the U.S. to:
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>1. Move to the city

...and civilization, it's not real wilderness out there :).

>2. Walk or ride a bike to work

First make the cities small enough for that. You'll start meeting people, you'll be surprised when you start recognizing them as your neighbors.

>3. Do all work by hand (no dishwashers, snowblowers, electric appliances)

No, but be reasonable about it.

>4. Get free medical care

Get guaranteed medical care for everybody. Pay your share when you don't need it, so you'll have it when you can't afford it.

>5. Give up 50% of our income and let the government spend it for our benefit

Invest 35% of our income in the common good and hire a few guys to handle it and a few more guys to watch over them. When the village shepherd returns with all our cows in the evening, we do count them, don't we?

>6. Redistributive programs

Huh?

[update:] ah I got it. When some guys gamble with investments, and put too much money in the risky business, redistribute the tax money to them, but not to their victims, because giving them the money will make the economy go, while giving it to the victims would be redistribution.

>7. Let the government control incomes, employment, spending, farming, production, ...

...in the Isle of Man, we can handle it ourselves here ;).

>8. Wait a minute, that's already another country, isn't it?? (and a country less than half our size) :o)

Which country would that be?

>We have some socialism here in the U.S. and all of it failed:
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>1. Public school system

How?

>2. Social Security

Still works and doesn't need much tax change to get another 30 or so years - the cap on taxable income needs to be adjusted for inflation, that's all. Repeating "social security is broken" as a mantra was a part of the push to steal privatize this fund. The push didn't work, but some people probably still believe this mantra. Maybe it has gone the way of (4) below.

OTOH, maybe it was a part of a longer campaign, because when everything else gets outsourced, there really won't be enough employed workforce to keep pouring money in.

>3. Welfare
>4. Income Tax (look at our public debt)

I don't know how putting the foxes to guard the henhouse (i.e. privatizing the government and replacing the money in public funds with gov't bonds) qualifies as socialism, but there's a lot that I don't know :).