Is Obama a socialist?

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-01-2008
Is Obama a socialist?
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Wed, 10-08-2008 - 12:33pm

Is Barack Obama a socialist?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-26-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 1:22am

>>> But I also don't think socialism is the horrible thing that some people say it is.

Until you have to live in a socialist society. BTW, which socialist society struck you as the kind of place you would have liked to live?

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 1:58am

< That’s socialism since these companies lack control and lacking control there is also a lack of market competition.

Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-03-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 2:34am

"Do you think that lack of market competition is how Canada and the UK have been able to keep costs under control?"


I'm very sure you are aware how they keep their healthcare costs down, as stated in my OP, by law.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 2:47am

Canada is not getting less expensive healthcare at our expense.

Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-03-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 3:17am

"Canada is not getting less expensive healthcare at our expense.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-01-2004
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 6:13am

Obama is mostly for Obama - he may espouse "fairness" and be allied with radical social organizations BUT at the most basic level Obama is for Obama and his friends.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 9:55am

<No, they get it cheaper because the government mandates the maximum price companies are allowed to charge for drugs, just like every country in Europe does.

Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-12-2004
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 10:11am

"voluntary membership for the means of collective bargaining much like unions or supply chain expensing"


I'm assuming you are aware that, for much of the 20th century (and maybe even today) unions were consdired, by the moneyed corporate classes, to be the ultimate in socialist organizations.

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-12-2004
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 10:13am
I've lived on a kibbutz in Israel, which is a "socialist" society, and it was actually quite pleasant.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-04-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 10:18am

"Why can't some employers

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