{"id":1303985,"date":"2019-02-20T10:49:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=448387"},"modified":"2019-02-20T10:49:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:49:20","slug":"letter-a-lesson-about-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/letter-a-lesson-about-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: A lesson about socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">I don&#8217;t think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/opinion\/mazzuca-the-results-of-socialism-show-its-consequences-column\/\">Butch Mazzuca knows what socialism is<\/a>. It hasn\u2019t failed here in America. We have had socialism in the United States for years. Social Security,\u00a0Medicare,\u00a0our police, firemen, public schools, the Coast Guard and all our military branches \u2014 all are socialistic in nature and in practice.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We fund all these with our tax dollars for the greater good. Ask yourself if we should give these things up because\u00a0they represent socialism. Equating South American dictators with socialists is just BS. They are dictatorships, not social democracies.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We should have socialized medicine. We should have education provided through at least college or even though graduate school for the common good. The threat is not socialism but unchecked, out-of-control capitalism. I have no problem with large companies and the rich. I have a problem with them running the country for their benefit at the expense of everyone else. Does anyone really need more than a billion dollars? Socialism at its core is the notion: &#8220;For The Common Good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ron Stone<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Edwards<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/opinion\/letter-a-lesson-about-socialism\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think Butch Mazzuca knows what socialism is. It hasn\u2019t failed here in America. We have had socialism in the United States for years. Social Security,\u00a0Medicare,\u00a0our police, firemen, public schools, the Coast Guard and all our military branches \u2014 all are socialistic in nature and in practice. We fund all these with our tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1303985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 17:38:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}