Socialism?
Are we now Socialists?
The best way to disect such a question is to examine how and what we are, versus how and what we use to be.
Does our Government manage and re-distribute our wealth? To be sure. 50 years ago the taxes of the average citizen was miniscule compared to today. Now taxes are crowding 50% after you get through the checkout line at Wal-Mart, and that's only the withholding on your check plus the state sales tax at the counter and has nothing to do with all the taxes, hidden fees, and licenses on the product you just bought making what some very smart and informed people say is a total of 84% on each dollar you spend.
Is the Government in your life in an intrusive way? Absolutely, from the cradle to the grave and beyond. We are all now subserviant in thought, activity, and behaviour. We've now acheived big brotherism to the point that everyone is a cop and peers over the fences and through the windows of your life and is very quick to ' turn you in' if you don't behave in the prescribed way and raise and treat your children the way the Gov says you should. Authority is quick to respond if you aren't behaving properly, and will tear the family apart, most of the time immediately, much of the time permanently, or at least until the uneducated can have their thinking re-arranged to adhere to the Governments guidelines. If you're a good student you'll be back together in a while. If not, never.
Does the Government control your life in the community? Totally. You must not only have insurances on your home and car to get a loan, you must have liability to cover the other guy, health insurance to see a doctor, maintain your property in a specific way and there's not a single thing otherwise that can be named that isn't governed by legislation either directly or by association other than your very innermost thoughts, and you'd better keep them to yourself.
Does the Government control private enterprise? What a 'no brainer'. Now the Government is printing up money to take over businesses to save us all. The correct thing would have been to let them fail and let us pick up the pieces and start again. Painful? Damn right. Correct? Damn right. Are we socialists? Damn right......... Sad times...............
The best way to disect such a question is to examine how and what we are, versus how and what we use to be.
Does our Government manage and re-distribute our wealth? To be sure. 50 years ago the taxes of the average citizen was miniscule compared to today. Now taxes are crowding 50% after you get through the checkout line at Wal-Mart, and that's only the withholding on your check plus the state sales tax at the counter and has nothing to do with all the taxes, hidden fees, and licenses on the product you just bought making what some very smart and informed people say is a total of 84% on each dollar you spend.
Is the Government in your life in an intrusive way? Absolutely, from the cradle to the grave and beyond. We are all now subserviant in thought, activity, and behaviour. We've now acheived big brotherism to the point that everyone is a cop and peers over the fences and through the windows of your life and is very quick to ' turn you in' if you don't behave in the prescribed way and raise and treat your children the way the Gov says you should. Authority is quick to respond if you aren't behaving properly, and will tear the family apart, most of the time immediately, much of the time permanently, or at least until the uneducated can have their thinking re-arranged to adhere to the Governments guidelines. If you're a good student you'll be back together in a while. If not, never.
Does the Government control your life in the community? Totally. You must not only have insurances on your home and car to get a loan, you must have liability to cover the other guy, health insurance to see a doctor, maintain your property in a specific way and there's not a single thing otherwise that can be named that isn't governed by legislation either directly or by association other than your very innermost thoughts, and you'd better keep them to yourself.
Does the Government control private enterprise? What a 'no brainer'. Now the Government is printing up money to take over businesses to save us all. The correct thing would have been to let them fail and let us pick up the pieces and start again. Painful? Damn right. Correct? Damn right. Are we socialists? Damn right......... Sad times...............
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