Sentences, paragraphs, and grammar oh my...
You have contempt for the truth and for your betters, those who understand these concepts far better than your feeble mind can even begin to grasp.
Of course; and your educational prowess is well exhibited through your well constructed posts, with articulation and adherence to the rules of grammar and logic....
Your GED has not prepared you to be able to discuss these topics.
Well, not everyone can match the erudite presentation of ideas that you offer. In fact few outside of a skid row gutter, clutching a bottle of Thunderbird, even come close.
Nearly every nation in Western Europe, North America, and Australia and New Zealand, as well as many aroung the world are capitalist nations with social welfare programs and regulations that dumb fucks like you equate to socialism.
It appears that you lack rudimentary reading comprehension skills. No real surprise.
I've explained on many occasions that the welfare state is not socialism. As the drooling retard Skyler cannot grasp, socialism requires the control of the means of production by the state. Merely engaging in transfer payments falls far short of the command and control structures used by central planners to manage an economy.
Most of the economic output in these nations is from privately owned business and entities. The government does not own the means of production. Though these companies operate according to governmental regulations, those regulations do not equate to government ownership or even control of their operations. Requiring a car maker to meet certain safety and fuel consumption regulations does not mean the government has taken over or controls the car maker. They still operate on a capitalist basis; they are owned by investors looking for a return on the investment; they are run by folks chosen by the owners of the companies; they make and sell products on the free market and return profit to the investors. All for profit companies do so. They produce most of the wealth in and income in the world.
Did you imagine that you had a point to make in that crime against effective communication?
How you could be so fucking stupid as to suggest that America under Obama has moved closer to socialism when there is more economic inequality is beyond me. Providing basic necessities of life, food, shelter, access to health care, on a temporary basis to those who are unable to provide for themselves is not socialism. Taking a tiny bit from the the rest of to provide this pittance to poor people is not socialist redistribution of wealth. Health care reform did not redistribute wealth from rich or middle class to poor; it changed the means of delivering health care to the poor in a way that has slowed the growth of health care costs for everyone. The wealth is redistributed from one group of taxpayers to another group, those who work in the health care industry. Of course, your 12 grade GED brain will not allow you to understand any of this.
Placing 1/6th of the economy under a command and control structure to be centrally managed and planned, as has happened under Obama's Fascist Care, unquestionably moves the nation closer to state managed economy, AKA Socialism.
BTW, the increase in health care costs have been vast under the ACA. The costs not only have not been slowed, but have accelerated exponentially.