Ayn Rand In 1959: "This Country Is Moving Towards Socialism"

[Procrustes Stretched]

Also, I've heard the title of "Socialist" used in relation to Mr Obama a lot lately.

What, specifically, has Mr Obama done, besides helping out one major auto company that was about to collapse, that can be considered "Socialist"?

As far as I know, Socialism is defined as "Governmental control of the means of production".

Since Health Insurance companies don't produce anything, but simply serve as a layer of bureaucracy, Government serving a simliar role is not, by definition, "socialism".

Health insurance is not a layer of bureaucracy, health insurers provide a service.

health Insurance isn't a bureaucracy??

How about all the people who do nothing but route paperwork? All the correspondence going back and forth to doctors and patients? The top heavy salaries of the executives? All the money spent on advertising?

Private industry is full of bureaucracy.

 

[Oddball]

When private industry becomes top heavy with middle management and bureaucracy, they do that "downsizing" thing that all the liberal pricks were whinin'-n-cryin' about, back in the '90s.

When has Big Daddy Big Gubmint ever downsized its bloated bureaucracies and duplicated programs?

I mean besides never.