By THAT definition, we're already a socialist nation. The present CONSERVATIVE (ha ha ha!!!) administration with its Patriot Act and Total Information Awareness mindset wants to know where you are, who your friends are, what you're doing, and how much money you have. It wants to specify a "one size fits all" curriculum for your kids, regardless of their interests or aptitudes, and it wants you to be the enforcer for this.
I copied the following definition off the internet, it's similar to several others I found.
"a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole"
The U.S. is FAR from being a socialist system in this sense, because the means of production and distribution are increasingly being concentrated in the hands of a REAL elite (in terms of money, no ethics).
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I though everyone knew about "corporate welfare". Some of it takes the form of massive tax breaks given to corporations so that they can build big box stores in small towns. This DESTROYS small businesses. I wrote about this in another post, so I won't be redundant here.
The rich haven't suddenly got a lot richer because everyone else has lost virtue. They're richer now because capitalism is being practiced as a sort of pyramid scheme. I've mentioned this fact before, but it bears repeating: The chief honcho of our last insurance company made 46 million dollars in 2003. What's the good of health insurance if it isn't really about shared risk, but instead about lining the pockets of the top executives?
The super rich are "gaming" the system. They want us to be ignorant and compliant: they want us to rent the houses many of us can no longer afford, they want us to be their clerks and sales representatives for their box stores (in which only cheap imported goods can be found), they want us to pay high health insurance premiums which end up in the pockets of the CEO. They're not interested in paying a "living wage" for Americans when they can get a day's work for as little as a dollar overseas.
Yesterday I took a wrong turn and ended up driving along the American side of the Rio Grande. We saw tiny mud and stick houses clinging to the hillside, an antique bus making its way down a dirt street. Much of the city of over a million people looks like that. That's what happens when a country allows all its wealth to be concentrated in the hands of a corrupt few. Do we really want to go there?
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I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure
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I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure
"He never actually experienced any of the persecutions that he read about in those books but it was important
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By THAT definition, we're already a socialist nation. The present CONSERVATIVE (ha ha ha!!!) administration with its Patriot Act and Total Information Awareness mindset wants to know where you are, who your friends are, what you're doing, and how much money you have. It wants to specify a "one size fits all" curriculum for your kids, regardless of their interests or aptitudes, and it wants you to be the enforcer for this.
I copied the following definition off the internet, it's similar to several others I found.
"a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole"
The U.S. is FAR from being a socialist system in this sense, because the means of production and distribution are increasingly being concentrated in the hands of a REAL elite (in terms of money, no ethics).
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I though everyone knew about "corporate welfare". Some of it takes the form of massive tax breaks given to corporations so that they can build big box stores in small towns. This DESTROYS small businesses. I wrote about this in another post, so I won't be redundant here.
The rich haven't suddenly got a lot richer because everyone else has lost virtue. They're richer now because capitalism is being practiced as a sort of pyramid scheme. I've mentioned this fact before, but it bears repeating: The chief honcho of our last insurance company made 46 million dollars in 2003. What's the good of health insurance if it isn't really about shared risk, but instead about lining the pockets of the top executives?
The super rich are "gaming" the system. They want us to be ignorant and compliant: they want us to rent the houses many of us can no longer afford, they want us to be their clerks and sales representatives for their box stores (in which only cheap imported goods can be found), they want us to pay high health insurance premiums which end up in the pockets of the CEO. They're not interested in paying a "living wage" for Americans when they can get a day's work for as little as a dollar overseas.
Yesterday I took a wrong turn and ended up driving along the American side of the Rio Grande. We saw tiny mud and stick houses clinging to the hillside, an antique bus making its way down a dirt street. Much of the city of over a million people looks like that. That's what happens when a country allows all its wealth to be concentrated in the hands of a corrupt few. Do we really want to go there?
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This sounds like a group think regurgitated definition of socialist principle to me.
So where in his policies does he
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