Are All Democrats Socialists?

If you buy into the BS of wealth redistrabution, you are a socialist.

If you think it should be done b/c it's fair, you are a child that has not learned that life is not fair.

So what do you call wealth redistribution to the top?

There's no such thing, beyond the bail outs.

Unless this is a hate rant about rich people making money.

fyi; rich people own the company that built your comuper, bring energy to your home, built whatever you ride, made the cloths on your back, built hospitals, rail roads, medicine, medical insurance, on and on.

but lets get those evil people.

Sorry to be the bearer of reality again but all of those "things" were actually BUILT by the working Americans who got their hands dirty, not the fat cats who sit in their ivory towers. (At least they USED to be the builders, but not anymore.) And for the rich, most of their income does not come from "working." In 2008, only 19% of the income reported by the 13,480 individuals or families making over $10 million came from wages and salaries.

You can find some excellent charts telling the story of wealth redistribution to the top here:

Who Rules America: Wealth, Income, and Power
 
So what do you call wealth redistribution to the top?

There's no such thing, beyond the bail outs.

Unless this is a hate rant about rich people making money.

fyi; rich people own the company that built your comuper, bring energy to your home, built whatever you ride, made the cloths on your back, built hospitals, rail roads, medicine, medical insurance, on and on.

but lets get those evil people.

Sorry to be the bearer of reality again but all of those "things" were actually BUILT by the working Americans who got their hands dirty, not the fat cats who sit in their ivory towers. (At least they USED to be the builders, but not anymore.) And for the rich, most of their income does not come from "working." In 2008, only 19% of the income reported by the 13,480 individuals or families making over $10 million came from wages and salaries.

You can find some excellent charts telling the story of wealth redistribution to the top here:

Who Rules America: Wealth, Income, and Power

Here's something that's really gonna blow the minds of Conservatives.

One of the first computers..that became the template for what we now have. Was built by Alan Turing..a british gay mathematician trying to crack the Enigma code.

Alan Turing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And he cracked it too.
 
I've posted this brief blurb from THE WEEK a few times, and each time I expected a flurry of angry comments accusing me of being a Socialist. Oddly, however, I've never received a single negative response. I wonder if that means, reading this just at face value, no one can really in all honesty have a problem with it.

What Europe gets for its taxes
Europeans pay higher taxes than do Americans, but for their money, they get a vast array of services that in the U.S., we must pay a major chunk of our incomes to match, said

Steven Hill in The Sacramento Bee.
posted on April 22, 2010, at 3:29 PM

When Americans complain about taxes, said Steven Hill, they often point to Europe as the ultimate nightmare. But people in “socialist” countries like Sweden are hardly “overtaxed serfs.” Yes, Europeans pay higher taxes than do Americans, but for their money, they get a vast array of services that in the U.S., we must pay a major chunk of our incomes to match. T

The $200,000 Americans pay for college educations? In most European nations, university educations are free, or very cheap. All that money you’re stuffing into your 401(k), because Social Security payments are so anemic? In Europe, pensions provide more than 75 percent of what people need in retirement. Your soaring health-care premiums? In Europe, health care is available to all without charge, and the average cost per person is half that in the U.S. Child care, senior care, state-of-the-art mass transportation—all are provided without additional charges, in return for the Europeans’ taxes.

The reality is that when you include our out-of-pocket expenses for essential services, “Americans pay out just as much as Europeans—but receive a lot less for our money.”
 
More socialism is inevitable as society advances and populations grow. The United States is one of least socialist countries on the planet and will probably remain so. I'm sure some things will be socialized. We will eventually have a single payer healthcare system. Currently nearly half of the healthcare cost in America are paid for by the government and that will increase.

It seems very popular to label everything the government does as socialist. I think Americans need to understand the difference between regulated capitalism and socialism.

I too think a Fed. Run system is inevitable when it comes to Health Insurance. Businesses simply do not want to be saddle with either healthcare costs or retirement costs. They'll eventually hoist that off on the government just like they've done in Europe.

No it's not. Only when they are saddled with mandates, as McDonald's was. The appropriate relief was to waive the mandates, but that exposes the fraud of a government fist running health care.

The notion that government can give everyone all the health care they want at a price they will pay is a scam.

Without the mandates, people would just wait until they were diagnosed with a dreaded disease to buy insurance. Without the mandates, everyone in the pool, insurance costs will not come down. (And I know, I know, premiums have risen lately, but that was expected as insurance companies will try to frontload before any new laws take effect in a couple of years.)
 
More socialism is inevitable as society advances and populations grow. The United States is one of least socialist countries on the planet and will probably remain so. I'm sure some things will be socialized. We will eventually have a single payer healthcare system. Currently nearly half of the healthcare cost in America are paid for by the government and that will increase.

It seems very popular to label everything the government does as socialist. I think Americans need to understand the difference between regulated capitalism and socialism.

I too think a Fed. Run system is inevitable when it comes to Health Insurance. Businesses simply do not want to be saddle with either healthcare costs or retirement costs. They'll eventually hoist that off on the government just like they've done in Europe.

No it's not. Only when they are saddled with mandates, as McDonald's was. The appropriate relief was to waive the mandates, but that exposes the fraud of a government fist running health care.

The notion that government can give everyone all the health care they want at a price they will pay is a scam.
Even without healthcare reform, the government's share of our healthcare cost would rise. With reform government's share of the costs will rise even higher. When reforms are fully implemented in 4 years, the insurance companies will be acting as a middle man for millions of Americans that will require government assistance to pay their premiums. So we have the government paying insurance companies to pay health providers. Anyone will see the inefficiency of such system, particular when you consider that Medicare is fully capability of replacing the insurance companies. In essence, the insurance companies are going to become redundant.
 

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