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If the government can do that legally to one company, then they can do it to as many or all companies as they want, that is communism.
You also don't seem to recognize nor understand that there is many forms of socialism and the Liberals of this nation are for and implementing social democratic ideologies. This is a form of socialism.
Western Europe are socialists as well and Canada.
again. you do not have the faintest idea what the definition of communism is. And, as I told you, I forgot more about socialism last week after tequila killed a few brain cells than you have ever known about the topic in your entire life. People on the right can toss that word around and apply it to all sorts of different governmental systems all they like... that doesn't make their application of it accurate. Progressive liberalism has always sought to improve the lives of those less fortunate from within the capitalist economic framework. And they have done so quite successfully. But government has not sought to buy segment after segment of our economy in some socialism-driven spending spree... the government doesn't own the farms. It doesn't own the transportation companies that move those farm goods to market. It doesn't own the market where the consumer can buy those products and take them home to cook and eat. It doesn't own the restaurant businesses that process that product and sell it to folks who don't want to cook. It doesn't own the farm implement business. It doesn't own the auto industry (and a minority share in one corporation in that industry does not count as the government owning that industry...sorry). It doesn't own the steel industry or the shipbuilding industry or the paper industry or the computer industry or the construction industry. Government, by and large, is perfectly willing to allow the marketplace to drive the show, with only some sensible regulation. Neither major political party wants to have government own the means of production. THAT is what socialism is, and anything less than that isn't really socialism. sorry.
As far as socialist countries, here's a list:
11, Only 11 Socialist Countries in the World - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com
Canada is not on it, and only one country in Europe is on it: Sweden. sorry. you just blow smoke out your butt and try to call it educated information, and it ain't.