User blog comment:Centrist16/SOMETHING EVERYONE MUST KNOW/@comment-3398633-20150809140026/@comment-3398633-20150812233500

1. Upward mobility is still possible under the current system if you're willing to try.

2. Tyranny of the majority is still tyranny.

3. Yugoslavia was borderline socialist after the 1970s when socialism no longer worked. Before then, it had workplace democracy, worker's unions, and state social services for all. The Eastern Bloc's productivity was good when it came to producing weapons and industrial goods. Food was always an issue, as exemplified by the Soviet Union needing to purchase grain from the West.

4. There is. Look at Medicare and Medicaid in the US. The government is mandanted to pay for them both. That is more than $850 billion dollars out of the federal budget that the government can't just decide not to pay for. Then there is social security, another $900 billion out of the government's budget. That's a wopping $1.75 trillion dollars just to sustain a welfare system that doesn't work and is routinuely exploited.

5. But it's classified as socialist by other socialists.

6. Once again, according to your standards of what is and is not socialism.