To all the socialists out there - Vote with your feet!

I love the idea but none of the snowflakes would ever go. Most people who say they support socialism don't really know what it means, and far less do they understand the history of socialism and the devastation it has caused wherever it has been tried.

Most who say they support it are just covetous hyenas or frightened sheep parading under an altruistic banner that in the name of "fairness" promises to remove personal responsibility by shifting their burden to society. In packs of hyenas, herds of sheep, or swarms of locust there is safety and strength in numbers. The problem with socialism, as the Iron Lady once said, is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

No, if you really want to know where economic conditions are best, watch where people go when they can vote with their feet. The real reality show is watching people risk life and limb to illegally come to America because it's the best place for economic opportunity and/or for getting on the government dole.

We need to stop feeding the pigeons in the park, enforce our borders, and ensure that we aren't importing hyenas, sheep, or locusts, or worse, hostile contagions or deadly parasites and terrorists. You're welcome to come to America if you want to be American, but if you are coming to supplant our functioning culture with the dysfunctional one you fled, don't bother. We have a right to keep what is ours, and that includes our cherished culture, customs, conventions, taboos and traditions.

If you want to know how people feel―ordinary people feel, about different [economic] systems―you ask them how they vote with their feet. Is it Hong Kong that has to put up police to keep people from Hong Kong going into China, or it's China that have to put up police to keep people from China going into Hong Kong? So look at the way people vote with their feet before you judge which society gives them better conditions.
~Milton Friedman