Why do Republicans bash socialism - when it's all around them?

[PredFan]

Socialism is taxpayer funds being used collectively to benefit society as a whole, despite income, contribution, or ability.

Sounds horrible, huh?

Well I hate to be the one to tell you, but Socialism, which you have been told to fear all your life, is responsible for all this...

1. The Military/Defense - The United States military is the largest and most funded socialist program in the world. It operates thanks to our taxpayer dollars and protects the country as a whole. From the richest citizens to the homeless who sleep under the bridge. We are all protected by our military whether we pay taxes or not. This is complete socialism.

2. Highways/Roads - Those roads and highways you drive on every single day are completely taxpayer funded. Your tax dollars are used to maintain, expand, and preserve our highways and roads for every one's use. President Eisenhower was inspired by Germany's autobahn and implemented the idea right here in America. That's right, a republican president created our taxpayer funded, national highway system. This was a different time, before the republican party came down with a vicious case of rabies that never went away.

3. Public Libraries - Yes. That place where you go to check out books from conservative authors telling you how horrible socialism is, is in fact socialism. Libraries are taxpayer funded. You pay a few bucks to get a library card and you can read books for free for the rest of your life.

4. Police - Ever had a situation where you had to call the police? Then you have used a taxpayer funded socialist program. Anyone can call the police whether they pay taxes or not. They are there to protect and serve the community, not individuals. This is complete socialism on a state level, but still socialism all the same. Would you rather have to swipe your credit card before the police will help you?

5. Fire Dept. - Hopefully you have never had a fire in your home. But if you have, you probably called your local taxpayer-funded fire department to put the fire out. Like police, this is state socialism. You tax dollars are used to rescue your entire community in case of a fire. It use to be set up where you would pay a fee every month to the fire dept. for their service. If you didn't pay, they let your house burn down. Sadly, a man from Tennessee had this exact situation happen to him in 2011 because he didn't pay his $75.00 fee. I guess that small town in Tennessee would rather let people's houses burn down that resort to evil socialism. So don't take for granted the fact that you have a 24/7 fire dept. to put out your burning home thanks to socialism.


MORE: 75 Ways Socialism Has Improved America

What the hell is wrong with a little socialism? We live with it. It's all around us. It has made our lives better. It's called Democratic Socialism.


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So why do you ask for more socialism when you already have it?

 

[LaDairis]

Responding to the OP....


The "Pre-1998 GOP" of Gingrich and Reagan was against socialism/big government

The "Post-1998 GOP" of W, Ryan, Boehner, McConnell, they are 100% for big government and socialism, and they socialized senior drugs in 2004, without any help from the Dems.

What happened when the GOP socialized senior drugs?

1: we found out that W lied about the estimated cost in typical SOCIALIST fashion....

Inquiry Confirms Top Medicare Official Threatened Actuary Over Cost of Drug Benefits

"An internal investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services confirms that the top Medicare official threatened to fire the program's chief actuary if he told Congress that drug benefits would probably cost much more than the White House acknowledged.

A report on the investigation, issued Tuesday, says the administrator of Medicare, Thomas A. Scully, issued the threat to Richard S. Foster while lawmakers were considering huge changes in the program last year. As a result, Mr. Foster's cost estimate did not become known until after the legislation was enacted."

2. socializing senior drugs has drenched our high schools with cheap, addictive, taxpayer funded pills, just as the LIBERTARIANS were saying in 2004.... and the GOP was scoffing at...



As long as the GOP is Zionist, it will only care about Israel, and we aren't done paying the price for the party's 180 degree turn in 1998.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Responding to the OP....


The "Pre-1998 GOP" of Gingrich and Reagan was against socialism/big government

The "Post-1998 GOP" of W, Ryan, Boehner, McConnell, they are 100% for big government and socialism, and they socialized senior drugs in 2004, without any help from the Dems.

What happened when the GOP socialized senior drugs?

1: we found out that W lied about the estimated cost in typical SOCIALIST fashion....

Inquiry Confirms Top Medicare Official Threatened Actuary Over Cost of Drug Benefits

"An internal investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services confirms that the top Medicare official threatened to fire the program's chief actuary if he told Congress that drug benefits would probably cost much more than the White House acknowledged.

A report on the investigation, issued Tuesday, says the administrator of Medicare, Thomas A. Scully, issued the threat to Richard S. Foster while lawmakers were considering huge changes in the program last year. As a result, Mr. Foster's cost estimate did not become known until after the legislation was enacted."

2. socializing senior drugs has drenched our high schools with cheap, addictive, taxpayer funded pills, just as the LIBERTARIANS were saying in 2004.... and the GOP was scoffing at...



As long as the GOP is Zionist, it will only care about Israel, and we aren't done paying the price for the party's 180 degree turn in 1998.

What the heck , so now Israel is responsible for you doing drugs?

 

[LaDairis]

Brilliant....

In 2000, we had a $5 trillion US Federal Debt and a budget surplus...

When W was done selling out in 2009, we had an $11 trillion Federal Debt and a deficit of more than a trillion....

To have no concern for that is to out oneself as a ZIONIST.

ZIONIST = will murder, steal, and bankrupt America to help Israel, the biggest problem the US has today


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[danielpalos]

So you think law enforcement is socialism????

If government finances it by involuntary taking money from me OF COURSE it is an example of socialist arrangement.

Government finances nothing. Taxpayers do.

No I don't, not in any meaningful way. I have a say in what I finance. The descisions here are that of government I have little to no control over as an individual.

We the People are The Government. We finance whatever we vote to finance. You need to import more Brown Latino Slaves and maybe then you can get enough votes for a full blown Economy Killing Socialist State.

Latinos fill a labor shortage. Many of those Latinos are fleeing capitalist shitholes like Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Ecuador, Panama, among others.

...more likely, our socialized, War on Drugs.

 

[Dana7360]

What they're supposed to do and end up doing nearly always end up being vastly different...

Who is "they"? Keynes is long dead and Keynesian economic theory is not hinged on what politicians actually do.

All economic theory is based upon what humans -which includes politicians- do.

Nonsense. There is nothing in definition of any economic theory about any particular country's doings.

I didn't say anything about a "country" doing anything...A "country" is an inanimate abstraction.

Only people can act...And economic central control, whether or not being practiced under the rubric of a nation-state, always -yes, I said always- fails in the end.

Keynesianism is just communism with a few extra steps.

....let me rephrase it for you, so you can maybe understand this simple idea:

There is nothing in definition of any economic theory about any particular people's doings.


Just because America consistently refuses to fix it's long term solvency problem, does not mean that Keynsian economic theory is fiscally irresponsible. It just means America is not a very good practitioner of that particular economic theory (primarily because we have an insidious tax-cut cult on the Republican side).

We aren't Keynesian economics here in America. We used to be until reagan.

reagan switched us to the friedman supply side trickle down economic scam that destroys economies. Republicans have been forcing it on us since 1981.

I wish we were Keynesian. We would have a much more fiscally responsible economy that works for everyone. Not just the ultra rich.

 

[EduardBernstein]

Curious, why do you bash capitalism when it's all around you?

Dare I name some examples?

Your clothes? You paid for them using the capitalist method.
The PC or Laptop you post your garbage on? You paid for it via the capitalist method.
Your car? You more than likely paid for it via the capitalist method.
The food you eat? Paid for by the capitalist method.

You buy, the government taxes, and the seller profits.

Note that all of the examples in your OP are things instituted by government, not the free market. The free market prefers capitalism, for a reason.

Who's bashing capitalism? I engage in it everyday - just like I do socialism. America is a blend of capitalism and socialism - democratic socialism.

No, it isn't. read the democratic socialists agenda, and if you had a quarter of a brain, you would realize how wrong you are.

They sum it up succinctly on the first line of their "About" page:

"Democratic socialists believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically"

Despite Lakhota's attempt to define anything and everything government does as socialism, real socialism involves state control of the economy - that's it. That's what socialism is. We can have a little, or a lot, but at the end of the day socialism is government control of society's economic decisions.

No what you're describing is Communism.

That's not the same thing as socialism.

If you were alive from 1945 to 1980 you lived and benefited from democratic socialism.

Is there anything wrong with communism?

 

[LaDairis]

reagan switched us to the friedman supply side trickle down economic scam that destroys economies

Actually no, but you did OK parroting the LEFT's bullshit.

In reality, Reagan supported tax and spending cuts, which were not enacted during his tenure in office. Instead, the Congress was controlled by the Dems, the "Crpok Klansman" duo of Jim Wright and KKKing of Pork Robert Byrd, the Klansman worshiped by OBAMA. Reagan was forced to accept spending increases, and a deficit resulted.


The true "trickle down" was done by Clinton/Gingrich, when tax and spending cuts were enacted in the 1990s.... and the result was


1. a BOOMING ECONOMY with FULL EMPLOYMENT and WAGE INFLATION
2. a BUDGET SURPLUS


So that was like really bad.... so we went back to SPEND SPEND SPENDING, and now the Debt is $22 trillon, up from $5 in 2000...

 

[danielpalos]

Curious, why do you bash capitalism when it's all around you?

Dare I name some examples?

Your clothes? You paid for them using the capitalist method.
The PC or Laptop you post your garbage on? You paid for it via the capitalist method.
Your car? You more than likely paid for it via the capitalist method.
The food you eat? Paid for by the capitalist method.

You buy, the government taxes, and the seller profits.

Note that all of the examples in your OP are things instituted by government, not the free market. The free market prefers capitalism, for a reason.

Who's bashing capitalism? I engage in it everyday - just like I do socialism. America is a blend of capitalism and socialism - democratic socialism.

No, it isn't. read the democratic socialists agenda, and if you had a quarter of a brain, you would realize how wrong you are.

They sum it up succinctly on the first line of their "About" page:

"Democratic socialists believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically"

Despite Lakhota's attempt to define anything and everything government does as socialism, real socialism involves state control of the economy - that's it. That's what socialism is. We can have a little, or a lot, but at the end of the day socialism is government control of society's economic decisions.

No what you're describing is Communism.

That's not the same thing as socialism.

If you were alive from 1945 to 1980 you lived and benefited from democratic socialism.

Is there anything wrong with communism?

A commune of Heaven on Earth merely requires sufficient social morals for free. Only the right wing never gets it.

 

[EduardBernstein]

Who's bashing capitalism? I engage in it everyday - just like I do socialism. America is a blend of capitalism and socialism - democratic socialism.

No, it isn't. read the democratic socialists agenda, and if you had a quarter of a brain, you would realize how wrong you are.

They sum it up succinctly on the first line of their "About" page:

"Democratic socialists believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically"

Despite Lakhota's attempt to define anything and everything government does as socialism, real socialism involves state control of the economy - that's it. That's what socialism is. We can have a little, or a lot, but at the end of the day socialism is government control of society's economic decisions.

No what you're describing is Communism.

That's not the same thing as socialism.

If you were alive from 1945 to 1980 you lived and benefited from democratic socialism.

Is there anything wrong with communism?

A commune of Heaven on Earth merely requires sufficient social morals for free. Only the right wing never gets it.

Communism helps maximize efficiency, and care for one another.

 

[dudmuck]

Who's bashing capitalism? I engage in it everyday - just like I do socialism. America is a blend of capitalism and socialism - democratic socialism.

stop throwing democratic in front of socialism in an attempt to make it sound more appealing
socialism is socialism no matter what word you throw in front of it
it's like putting democratic in front of communism to make communism acceptable and appealing

The primary defining characteristic is workers self management.
If workers are managing themselves, this like has to be done democratically.

Freedom. Are workers managing themselves have more freedom?

Is this freedom?

Another ignorant liberal that thinks wealth is finite that one having more wealth causes another to have less

your ignorance discredits you from having any intelligent conversation on economics
go learn something then you can come back and join the discussion till then you are just embarrassing your self

Labor is finite, with limited supply.
So how can wealth be any different?

no, it is not
what a human can produce is far from finite we constantly increase what a human can produce
there you are again proving your ignorance

How many hours can you work per day?

 

[danielpalos]

No, it isn't. read the democratic socialists agenda, and if you had a quarter of a brain, you would realize how wrong you are.

They sum it up succinctly on the first line of their "About" page:

"Democratic socialists believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically"

Despite Lakhota's attempt to define anything and everything government does as socialism, real socialism involves state control of the economy - that's it. That's what socialism is. We can have a little, or a lot, but at the end of the day socialism is government control of society's economic decisions.

No what you're describing is Communism.

That's not the same thing as socialism.

If you were alive from 1945 to 1980 you lived and benefited from democratic socialism.

Is there anything wrong with communism?

A commune of Heaven on Earth merely requires sufficient social morals for free. Only the right wing never gets it.

Communism helps maximize efficiency, and care for one another.

Only the Religious seem to be able to make it work.

 

[martybegan]

Curious, why do you bash capitalism when it's all around you?

Dare I name some examples?

Your clothes? You paid for them using the capitalist method.
The PC or Laptop you post your garbage on? You paid for it via the capitalist method.
Your car? You more than likely paid for it via the capitalist method.
The food you eat? Paid for by the capitalist method.

You buy, the government taxes, and the seller profits.

Note that all of the examples in your OP are things instituted by government, not the free market. The free market prefers capitalism, for a reason.

Who's bashing capitalism? I engage in it everyday - just like I do socialism. America is a blend of capitalism and socialism - democratic socialism.

No, it isn't. read the democratic socialists agenda, and if you had a quarter of a brain, you would realize how wrong you are.

They sum it up succinctly on the first line of their "About" page:

"Democratic socialists believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically"

Despite Lakhota's attempt to define anything and everything government does as socialism, real socialism involves state control of the economy - that's it. That's what socialism is. We can have a little, or a lot, but at the end of the day socialism is government control of society's economic decisions.

No what you're describing is Communism.

That's not the same thing as socialism.

If you were alive from 1945 to 1980 you lived and benefited from democratic socialism.

Nope. sorry, but you don't get to define things to suit you.

Socialism is the basis of communism.

Capitalism is the basis of our system of economics.

Regulation of the means of production is not ownership, unless you overregulate and dictate, and in that case you get fascism.

 

[Papageorgio]

Socialism is taxpayer funds being used collectively to benefit society as a whole, despite income, contribution, or ability.

Sounds horrible, huh?

Well I hate to be the one to tell you, but Socialism, which you have been told to fear all your life, is responsible for all this...

1. The Military/Defense - The United States military is the largest and most funded socialist program in the world. It operates thanks to our taxpayer dollars and protects the country as a whole. From the richest citizens to the homeless who sleep under the bridge. We are all protected by our military whether we pay taxes or not. This is complete socialism.

2. Highways/Roads - Those roads and highways you drive on every single day are completely taxpayer funded. Your tax dollars are used to maintain, expand, and preserve our highways and roads for every one's use. President Eisenhower was inspired by Germany's autobahn and implemented the idea right here in America. That's right, a republican president created our taxpayer funded, national highway system. This was a different time, before the republican party came down with a vicious case of rabies that never went away.

3. Public Libraries - Yes. That place where you go to check out books from conservative authors telling you how horrible socialism is, is in fact socialism. Libraries are taxpayer funded. You pay a few bucks to get a library card and you can read books for free for the rest of your life.

4. Police - Ever had a situation where you had to call the police? Then you have used a taxpayer funded socialist program. Anyone can call the police whether they pay taxes or not. They are there to protect and serve the community, not individuals. This is complete socialism on a state level, but still socialism all the same. Would you rather have to swipe your credit card before the police will help you?

5. Fire Dept. - Hopefully you have never had a fire in your home. But if you have, you probably called your local taxpayer-funded fire department to put the fire out. Like police, this is state socialism. You tax dollars are used to rescue your entire community in case of a fire. It use to be set up where you would pay a fee every month to the fire dept. for their service. If you didn't pay, they let your house burn down. Sadly, a man from Tennessee had this exact situation happen to him in 2011 because he didn't pay his $75.00 fee. I guess that small town in Tennessee would rather let people's houses burn down that resort to evil socialism. So don't take for granted the fact that you have a 24/7 fire dept. to put out your burning home thanks to socialism.


MORE: 75 Ways Socialism Has Improved America

What the hell is wrong with a little socialism? We live with it. It's all around us. It has made our lives better. It's called Democratic Socialism.


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Do you have a link to the man in Tennessee with his house burning down because he lacked $75?

Either way, all the above are not socialism no matter how hard you try to twist it. Socialism is the complete control over the means of production by the workers (the people), with government as the people’s central representative authority. However, nice try.

 

[Richard-H]

Socialism is taxpayer funds being used collectively to benefit society as a whole, despite income, contribution, or ability.

Sounds horrible, huh?

Well I hate to be the one to tell you, but Socialism, which you have been told to fear all your life, is responsible for all this...

1. The Military/Defense - The United States military is the largest and most funded socialist program in the world. It operates thanks to our taxpayer dollars and protects the country as a whole. From the richest citizens to the homeless who sleep under the bridge. We are all protected by our military whether we pay taxes or not. This is complete socialism.

2. Highways/Roads - Those roads and highways you drive on every single day are completely taxpayer funded. Your tax dollars are used to maintain, expand, and preserve our highways and roads for every one's use. President Eisenhower was inspired by Germany's autobahn and implemented the idea right here in America. That's right, a republican president created our taxpayer funded, national highway system. This was a different time, before the republican party came down with a vicious case of rabies that never went away.

3. Public Libraries - Yes. That place where you go to check out books from conservative authors telling you how horrible socialism is, is in fact socialism. Libraries are taxpayer funded. You pay a few bucks to get a library card and you can read books for free for the rest of your life.

4. Police - Ever had a situation where you had to call the police? Then you have used a taxpayer funded socialist program. Anyone can call the police whether they pay taxes or not. They are there to protect and serve the community, not individuals. This is complete socialism on a state level, but still socialism all the same. Would you rather have to swipe your credit card before the police will help you?

5. Fire Dept. - Hopefully you have never had a fire in your home. But if you have, you probably called your local taxpayer-funded fire department to put the fire out. Like police, this is state socialism. You tax dollars are used to rescue your entire community in case of a fire. It use to be set up where you would pay a fee every month to the fire dept. for their service. If you didn't pay, they let your house burn down. Sadly, a man from Tennessee had this exact situation happen to him in 2011 because he didn't pay his $75.00 fee. I guess that small town in Tennessee would rather let people's houses burn down that resort to evil socialism. So don't take for granted the fact that you have a 24/7 fire dept. to put out your burning home thanks to socialism.


MORE: 75 Ways Socialism Has Improved America

What the hell is wrong with a little socialism? We live with it. It's all around us. It has made our lives better. It's called Democratic Socialism.


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What you describe is Liberalism, not socialism.

Socialism is the seizure of all property by the government and the direct control of the economy.

Bernie Sanders is NOT a social-democrat. He's a liberal.

By constantly calling liberalism 'socialism', you are playing right into the hands of Conservatives. They interpret the term 'socialism' correctly - they use arguments against socialism to debunk democratic-socialism. Liberals should call themselves 'liberals' or 'progressives'.

During the Spanish civil war 'Socialists' were more radical than 'communists'. (Communists supported the 'liberal' Spanish government, while the socialist would not). Conservatives stick to those definitions.

 

[Andylusion]

Socialism is taxpayer funds being used collectively to benefit society as a whole, despite income, contribution, or ability.

Sounds horrible, huh?

Well I hate to be the one to tell you, but Socialism, which you have been told to fear all your life, is responsible for all this...

1. The Military/Defense - The United States military is the largest and most funded socialist program in the world. It operates thanks to our taxpayer dollars and protects the country as a whole. From the richest citizens to the homeless who sleep under the bridge. We are all protected by our military whether we pay taxes or not. This is complete socialism.

2. Highways/Roads - Those roads and highways you drive on every single day are completely taxpayer funded. Your tax dollars are used to maintain, expand, and preserve our highways and roads for every one's use. President Eisenhower was inspired by Germany's autobahn and implemented the idea right here in America. That's right, a republican president created our taxpayer funded, national highway system. This was a different time, before the republican party came down with a vicious case of rabies that never went away.

3. Public Libraries - Yes. That place where you go to check out books from conservative authors telling you how horrible socialism is, is in fact socialism. Libraries are taxpayer funded. You pay a few bucks to get a library card and you can read books for free for the rest of your life.

4. Police - Ever had a situation where you had to call the police? Then you have used a taxpayer funded socialist program. Anyone can call the police whether they pay taxes or not. They are there to protect and serve the community, not individuals. This is complete socialism on a state level, but still socialism all the same. Would you rather have to swipe your credit card before the police will help you?

5. Fire Dept. - Hopefully you have never had a fire in your home. But if you have, you probably called your local taxpayer-funded fire department to put the fire out. Like police, this is state socialism. You tax dollars are used to rescue your entire community in case of a fire. It use to be set up where you would pay a fee every month to the fire dept. for their service. If you didn't pay, they let your house burn down. Sadly, a man from Tennessee had this exact situation happen to him in 2011 because he didn't pay his $75.00 fee. I guess that small town in Tennessee would rather let people's houses burn down that resort to evil socialism. So don't take for granted the fact that you have a 24/7 fire dept. to put out your burning home thanks to socialism.


MORE: 75 Ways Socialism Has Improved America

What the hell is wrong with a little socialism? We live with it. It's all around us. It has made our lives better. It's called Democratic Socialism.


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There are many cities with privately run police departments. They not only do a better job, but they do so for a lower cost.

There are also private roads as well. And if you didn't know, private roads are often a fraction of the cost of government union labor, and are built to the same quality.

Here's the problem with your argument.

We on the right-wing believe in something called Federalism.

Federalism is the idea that every group of people should govern themselves.

It is a fundamental belief that "one size fits all" policies don't work. That a rule governing New York, likely would not work, and may even be counter productive in Montana. That a policy that might work in San Fransisco, would work poorly in Miami.

It is the idea that the power of government should be moved as close to the people as possible.

This is why I do not actively oppose California implementing socialist programs and policies. Let them. If they bankrupt their entire state, that's on them.

What I have a problem with, is trying to force socialism on everyone, from Washington. That's where the rub comes. If you want implement that in Detroit, and bankrupt the city, that's on you. But don't force your bad policies on Columbus Ohio, if we don't want it.

Moreover, the big problem with having the Federal government pay for all this stuff, is that the Federal government can borrow and print money, that the states and cities cannot.

This gives stupid left-wingers the illusion that you can borrow and print money, forever, and pay for everything you want. But every country that has gone down that path, has failed. Venezuela, Cuba, Greece, and the Soviets before them.

In the end, you can't tax your way to prosperity, and no country ever has. You can't mandate success.

Lastly you like all left-wingers, mention several things when you talk about successful socialism....
Roads, Libraries (that you on the left have never gone to), Military, Police, Fire Department.

Now I always have to be amused by this, because you hate the military, hate the police, hate free speech and never go to libraries, you claim roads are a subsidy for the oil industry. The only thing on that list you people on the left-wing do not complain about, is the Fire Department.

Nevertheless.... When you calculate out all the costs of all those things combined.... we could cut taxes by 50%, and have enough money to cover all those things, and have money left over to pay down the US debt.

 

[sartre play]

Branding any word as all bad or all good is just propaganda, used as a tool by political party's to scare you into compliance.

 

[Diver Diva]

Socialism is taxpayer funds being used collectively to benefit society as a whole, despite income, contribution, or ability.
Sounds horrible, huh?

Yes. Yes it does.

 

[2aguy]

Socialism is taxpayer funds being used collectively to benefit society as a whole, despite income, contribution, or ability.

Sounds horrible, huh?

Well I hate to be the one to tell you, but Socialism, which you have been told to fear all your life, is responsible for all this...

1. The Military/Defense - The United States military is the largest and most funded socialist program in the world. It operates thanks to our taxpayer dollars and protects the country as a whole. From the richest citizens to the homeless who sleep under the bridge. We are all protected by our military whether we pay taxes or not. This is complete socialism.

2. Highways/Roads - Those roads and highways you drive on every single day are completely taxpayer funded. Your tax dollars are used to maintain, expand, and preserve our highways and roads for every one's use. President Eisenhower was inspired by Germany's autobahn and implemented the idea right here in America. That's right, a republican president created our taxpayer funded, national highway system. This was a different time, before the republican party came down with a vicious case of rabies that never went away.

3. Public Libraries - Yes. That place where you go to check out books from conservative authors telling you how horrible socialism is, is in fact socialism. Libraries are taxpayer funded. You pay a few bucks to get a library card and you can read books for free for the rest of your life.

4. Police - Ever had a situation where you had to call the police? Then you have used a taxpayer funded socialist program. Anyone can call the police whether they pay taxes or not. They are there to protect and serve the community, not individuals. This is complete socialism on a state level, but still socialism all the same. Would you rather have to swipe your credit card before the police will help you?

5. Fire Dept. - Hopefully you have never had a fire in your home. But if you have, you probably called your local taxpayer-funded fire department to put the fire out. Like police, this is state socialism. You tax dollars are used to rescue your entire community in case of a fire. It use to be set up where you would pay a fee every month to the fire dept. for their service. If you didn't pay, they let your house burn down. Sadly, a man from Tennessee had this exact situation happen to him in 2011 because he didn't pay his $75.00 fee. I guess that small town in Tennessee would rather let people's houses burn down that resort to evil socialism. So don't take for granted the fact that you have a 24/7 fire dept. to put out your burning home thanks to socialism.


MORE: 75 Ways Socialism Has Improved America

What the hell is wrong with a little socialism? We live with it. It's all around us. It has made our lives better. It's called Democratic Socialism.


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Wrong...socialism is the government controlling the means of production.

 

[Lakhota]

Socialism is taxpayer funds being used collectively to benefit society as a whole, despite income, contribution, or ability.

Sounds horrible, huh?

Well I hate to be the one to tell you, but Socialism, which you have been told to fear all your life, is responsible for all this...

1. The Military/Defense - The United States military is the largest and most funded socialist program in the world. It operates thanks to our taxpayer dollars and protects the country as a whole. From the richest citizens to the homeless who sleep under the bridge. We are all protected by our military whether we pay taxes or not. This is complete socialism.

2. Highways/Roads - Those roads and highways you drive on every single day are completely taxpayer funded. Your tax dollars are used to maintain, expand, and preserve our highways and roads for every one's use. President Eisenhower was inspired by Germany's autobahn and implemented the idea right here in America. That's right, a republican president created our taxpayer funded, national highway system. This was a different time, before the republican party came down with a vicious case of rabies that never went away.

3. Public Libraries - Yes. That place where you go to check out books from conservative authors telling you how horrible socialism is, is in fact socialism. Libraries are taxpayer funded. You pay a few bucks to get a library card and you can read books for free for the rest of your life.

4. Police - Ever had a situation where you had to call the police? Then you have used a taxpayer funded socialist program. Anyone can call the police whether they pay taxes or not. They are there to protect and serve the community, not individuals. This is complete socialism on a state level, but still socialism all the same. Would you rather have to swipe your credit card before the police will help you?

5. Fire Dept. - Hopefully you have never had a fire in your home. But if you have, you probably called your local taxpayer-funded fire department to put the fire out. Like police, this is state socialism. You tax dollars are used to rescue your entire community in case of a fire. It use to be set up where you would pay a fee every month to the fire dept. for their service. If you didn't pay, they let your house burn down. Sadly, a man from Tennessee had this exact situation happen to him in 2011 because he didn't pay his $75.00 fee. I guess that small town in Tennessee would rather let people's houses burn down that resort to evil socialism. So don't take for granted the fact that you have a 24/7 fire dept. to put out your burning home thanks to socialism.


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What the hell is wrong with a little socialism? We live with it. It's all around us. It has made our lives better. It's called Democratic Socialism.


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Wrong...socialism is the government controlling the means of production.

Duh, that's one form of socialism. Thanks for playing...

National socialism and communism are very, very different from Democratic Socialism here in America.