Monday, March 30, 2009

socialism

To my dear readers,
To those who know me well you know that i am a ranter, thats why alyssa and bethany wont ask me questions about the vietnam war. But since i ve been gone theres been alot of talk from back home about socialism so im going to shine some light on my findings meow (here) Since i am living in one of the last socialist countries. One big thing i noticed was when i was in stockholm a few weeks ago, when you walk around you see1. H&M´s across the street from each other 2. Street muscians 3. Lots of taxi´s. This sounds like a normal big city in the states except there is no homeless on the streets at all. Its not that they moved them all out its simple there are none. Back home we live in constant fear of if we will have enough money and insurance. I wont lie im scared of getting hurt and needing sugery or something. Here theres no fear of that. Now im not saying its perfect because no government is but its nice to see people taken care of whether they have alot of money or not. Theres a feeling of peace of mind here that is wonderful. Now to bring this to a point not just a long political rant for my own amusement. I think as christians this idea of we all take care of each other is wonderful. Something to look at is the hutterites. They share everything they have, if someone needs a hammer someone has it and they let them use it because it belongs to everyone. They kinda remind me of the people in the village with out the whole scary monsters thing going for um. Please remember this is all opinion, not hard stone cold fact.
blessings,
Samuel j. Miller

4 comments:

Bethany Miller said...

i love how you used ''meow''

Michael said...

a different viewpoint:
http://www.namyth.com/SocialismWORKS!/index.php?sw=Sweden

Also see PJ O'Rouke's book "Eat the Rich."

Thea said...

Hurray for international experiences that make people question the capitalist model we Westerners take so for granted. It's not the only model out there, and certainly not an ideal one! It's up to young people to dream big and envision new ways of doing things... So I guess what that leaves us with is, "Get dreaming, Samuel."

Krista said...

thanks for the input!