Can function? Poorly, maybe.a fan wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 1:26 pmYeah---but they didn't do that.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 6:21 am You and I have danced this dance before. What you call pure socialism I call federal spending. Once Uncle Sam takes our tax dollars from us they spend it however they see fit. IMO the UV has enough Alum out there that they can create their own endowment for their university.
If UVa---where the government owns and operates the entity in question isn't socialism?
Then that would mean that you could open up a Federal or State owned and operated shoe factory, and that wouldn't be socialism, either.
Socialism is simply where the government owns and operates the entity in question.
Can America function without Government owned and operated schools? Can we have only private toll roads? Or privately owned parks?
Of course. But we elected representatives who CHOSE to install socialist institutions.
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Play? Is this a forking game ?!?!
Move to Tejas and Texit if that’s your plan. I’m pretty sure most people will pass.