Using the broad definition cons have of socialism, don’t they realize America is already socialist?
When are they moving to their third world, laisez-faire capitalist, banana republics?
You know the countries where corporations get away with abusing the worker, polluting the environment, scamming the consumer, and buying the government.
THE UNITED STATES ON THE OTHER HAND…
Has public owned schools for every single child, state owned and subsidized universities, student grants, subsidized loans, GI BIlls, job training, 40 hour work weeks, overtime pay, minimum wage, workman’s compensation, unemployment insurance, work place safety laws, social security and medicare for the elderly, medicaid for the poor, food sanitation standards, laws against false advertisement and labeling, environmental protection laws, force banks to insure with the federal government, regulate the stock market, public housing and food stamps for the poor, government grants in research and development, state owned and controlled armed forces, public transportation, public health utilities, etc, etc.
Neocons don’t bother with definitions as you think of them – in terms of the identification and description of things in the reality-based world.
In the Neocon dictionary, all words mean either ‘good-us’ or ‘bad-them’ and they can be applied to any thing or any concept (at any time) as the situation merits.
For example, it has been pointed out to them that every variant of ‘Islamo-Fascist’ is an oxymoron that has meaning only in the world of the retarded, the pathologically illiterate, and the criminally stupid. And yet, there is the President of the US saying it all the time.
Well… maybe that is not a good example, I’m sure there are people who know how to read that use the term as well.
Sweetpea –
In the US system, administrative costs represent 19-25% of healthcare costs (up to 34% at for-profit hospitals).
Medicare (the US socialist medical care system) actually works better and has administrative costs of about 2%.
You don’t really understand the things that go on in the world, do you?
OG3-Oscar Grant Tribute-This Week With Jasiri X Episode 16
