Define Socialism

[TeaBagger]

Those countries with single payer don't permit medical malpractice claims either. Just get rid of malpractice, take the lawyers and insurance away and costs here would drop dramatically.

You are repeating a right wing lie.

Post some proof and links liar.

Tell us what percentage of a hospital's operating cost is malpractice insurance.

Tell us what percentage of a hospital's operating cost is malpractice insurance.

Tell us what percentage of a hospital's operating cost is malpractice insurance.

The other thing liar, is a lawyer will not take a case unless he thinks he can win it.

Annual U.S. Healthcare Spending Hits $3.8 Trillion - Forbes

29 Statistics on Medical Malpractice Payouts and Lawsuits

Medical malpractice payouts
1. Dollars in payouts: $3.6 billion (3.4 percent less than in 2011)
2. Total payouts for medical malpractice: 12,142 (one every 43 minutes)
3. Payouts resulting from judgments: 5 percent
4. Payouts resulting from settlements: 93 percent

 

[Timmy]

3 pages in, where are the righties wh their definitions ?

 

[bripat9643]

3 pages in, where are the righties wh their definitions ?

Several have been posted, douche bag.

 

[FA_Q2]

3 pages in, where are the righties wh their definitions ?

There are plenty already posted. Are you reading?

 

[TeaBagger]

3 pages in, where are the righties wh their definitions ?

They didn't get their Limbaugh talking/lying points because Limbaugh can't or won't define socialism.

 

[TeaBagger]

3 pages in, where are the righties wh their definitions ?

There are plenty already posted. Are you reading?

He is reading and you are doing what CONS do. You are lying.

 

[TeaBagger]

Socialism: is an economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. How much more DEMOCRATIC can you get than that?

I got news for you CONS. America is government for and by the PEOPLE. I know you CONS want the criminal 1% owning our government and telling you what to do and think and I understand why. It's because you can't think for yourselves. You CONS are not the sharpest tools in the shed.

 

[oreo]

This ought to be good.

Before I define it I will make some observations.

We have had unbridled socialism for the banks and corporations forever. Some refer to it as corporate welfare. It's real name is National Socialism aka Nazism. Ron Paul referred to is as mild Fascism but lately it is not so mild.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander or so they say but maybe what is good for the gander is not necessarily good for the goose? Corporate socialism is not working. American democracy is gone. What replaced it was plutocracy but the plutocracy has given way to the kleptocracy and the kleptocrats. One prime example of that is when the financial industry fuck the American people so hard that they ended up fucking themselves and then extorted the taxpayers to bail them out. Many of these whores gave themselves million dollar bonuses with that taxpayer bailout money. Corporate socialism is Nazism.

Nazism aka National Socialism is corporate control of the government.

The Federal Government will always subsidize energy and food--aka corporate welfare. General Electric got the biggest break from the Obama administration on Federal Tax breaks, making billions of dollars in 2010 and basically didn't pay a penny of Federal Taxes on it. Why? They're building wind mills all over this country in Obama's green energy plan. So is that Good or Bad? Certainly there's a lot of waste in government but you want to attack the source of why it is, versus stating it's all bad.
GE Paid No Federal Taxes in 2010

As far as the banking bailouts aka Wall Street banking bailouts. They were all paid back a couple of years ago with 48 billion in interest. While no one liked to have to do that, the consequences of not bailing them out would have made the Great Depression of the 1930's look like a cake walk. We would have had bread and soup lines 40 miles long all across this country because employers would not have been able to pay their employees.
Barack Obama says banks paid back all the federal bailout money

Crooks on Wall Street you bet ya. I don't know how much the Dodd/Frank bill has done, but I know mortgage bankers are required to go through a lot of licensing requirements, that didn't happen back then. And we know that all roads to that economic collapse lead right back to the front doors of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac.

As far as socialism-aka wealth redistribution-the best 5 sentences are:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."Winston Churchill

“The problem with socialism is that government eventually runs out of other people's money to spend.” Margaret Thatcher

 

[Timmy]

3 pages in, where are the righties wh their definitions ?

Several have been posted, douche bag.

You mean that vague nonsene you posted ? That's what your going with ? Is the US socialist ?

 

[FA_Q2]

3 pages in, where are the righties wh their definitions ?

There are plenty already posted. Are you reading?

He is reading and you are doing what CONS do. You are lying.

So much hate. Is that your only trick?

 

[TeaBagger]

3 pages in, where are the righties wh their definitions ?

There are plenty already posted. Are you reading?

He is reading and you are doing what CONS do. You are lying.

So much hate. Is that your only trick?

I only hate liars. If there were a bounty on you liars I'd have more money than Trump.

My base of Republicans are a bunch of penis jerkers.
And all humans are to me are really only workers.

 

[Kosh]

3 pages in, where are the righties wh their definitions ?

There are plenty already posted. Are you reading?

He is reading and you are doing what CONS do. You are lying.

So much hate. Is that your only trick?

I only hate liars. If there were a bounty on you liars I'd have more money than Trump.

My base of Republicans are a bunch of penis jerkers.
And all humans are to me are really only workers.

So you hate yourself?

Where are all your bash Hilary threads if you truly hate liars?

Silly far left drone!

 

[bripat9643]

3 pages in, where are the righties wh their definitions ?

Several have been posted, douche bag.

You mean that vague nonsene you posted ? That's what your going with ? Is the US socialist ?

How is it "vague?" I can't imagine anything more precise. The U.S. is partially socialist, just like all the so-called "social democracies" of Europe.

 

[bripat9643]

Socialism: is an economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. How much more DEMOCRATIC can you get than that?

You're the one who called my definition "vague." What could be more vague than terms like "the community?" What does that mean? Is the federal government "the community?" No? Then how come all the policies you self-styled "socialists" advocate always involve creating massive programs run by the federal government? On the one hand Congress is nothing but a horribly corrupt corporatist tool of the plutocracy, and on the other it's "government for and by the PEOPLE." Which is it?

I got news for you CONS. America is government for and by the PEOPLE. I know you CONS want the criminal 1% owning our government and telling you what to do and think and I understand why. It's because you can't think for yourselves. You CONS are not the sharpest tools in the shed.

Elsewhere you claimed America was a corporatist plutocracy. You can't seem to make up your mind.I guess it depends on whether you're promoting some vast new government socialist boondoggle or trying to bash America for giving the lie to all your claims about socialism.

 

[TemplarKormac]

This ought to be good.

Before I define it I will make some observations.

We have had unbridled socialism for the banks and corporations forever. Some refer to it as corporate welfare. It's real name is National Socialism aka Nazism. Ron Paul referred to is as mild Fascism but lately it is not so mild.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander or so they say but maybe what is good for the gander is not necessarily good for the goose? Corporate socialism is not working. American democracy is gone. What replaced it was plutocracy but the plutocracy has given way to the kleptocracy and the kleptocrats. One prime example of that is when the financial industry fuck the American people so hard that they ended up fucking themselves and then extorted the taxpayers to bail them out. Many of these whores gave themselves million dollar bonuses with that taxpayer bailout money. Corporate socialism is Nazism.

Nazism aka National Socialism is corporate control of the government.

Bernie Sanders.

 

[FA_Q2]

Socialism: is an economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. How much more DEMOCRATIC can you get than that?

You're the one who called my definition "vague." What could be more vague than terms like "the community?" What does that mean? Is the federal government "the community?" No? Then how come all the policies you self-styled "socialists" advocate always involve creating massive programs run by the federal government? On the one hand Congress is nothing but a horribly corrupt corporatist tool of the plutocracy, and on the other it's "government for and by the PEOPLE." Which is it?

I got news for you CONS. America is government for and by the PEOPLE. I know you CONS want the criminal 1% owning our government and telling you what to do and think and I understand why. It's because you can't think for yourselves. You CONS are not the sharpest tools in the shed.

Elsewhere you claimed America was a corporatist plutocracy. You can't seem to make up your mind.I guess it depends on whether you're promoting some vast new government socialist boondoggle or trying to bash America for giving the lie to all your claims about socialism.

And there lies the true double think on the left.

They belive that the government needs more power to counter corporate power whilst demanding that corporations and the rich control government.

 

[TheGreenHornet]

Jokes about socialism from the former Eastern Bloc.

Q: What exactly constitutes a developed socialist society?
A: The victory of progressive powers over strong logic (rationality).

Q: What is the difference between socialism and capitalism?
A: Capitalism makes social mistakes while socialism makes capital mistakes.

Q: Is it true that Adam and Eve were the first socialists?
A: It might be true. Adam and Eve dressed very humbly, had a very modest need for food, and didn't live in their own home. On top of everything else, they believed that they were in heaven.

Q: Will there be any theft after we reach the communist stage of development?
A: Yes, but only if, after socialism, there is anything left to be stolen.

Q: What are the primary contradictions under socialism?
A: There is no unemployment, yet no one actually works. No one works, yet the stores are all full. The stores are full, yet the people are unhappy. The people are unhappy, yet they still vote "Yes."

Q: Is it true that the USSR is the biggest country in the Eastern Bloc?
A: Maybe Hungary and Czechoslovakia are even bigger. This might be because our armies began withdrawing from there more than a year ago and they still haven't reached the Soviet border.

Q: Is it possible for democratic socialism to start up in such a well-developed country as the USA?
A: Yes, it's possible, but, why?

Q: Is there a difference between "democracy" and "popular democracy?"
A: Yes, it's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.

Q: Is it true that we haven't yet reached the final stage of communist development?
A: Yes, but don't worry; it can't get any worse than this.

Q: Why was the return of the Soviet space station from the Moon such a great success?
A: Because it proved once and for all that it is possible for something to leave the USSR and actually return.

Q: Can you say freely and publicly that which you are thinking here in our country?
A: Yes, of course. Unless, of course, you are thinking of something that shouldn't be said freely and publicly.

Q: What is the most concise definition of a learned worker?
A: One whose blood pressure is higher than his salary.

Q: The Central Committee of the Communist Party offered me a job as a secretary. Should I accept?
A: Yes. Your only duties will be saying, "Yes, Comrade," and at night, "No, Comrade."

Q: Yesterday, I wanted to buy some bananas, however, at the store there was only one banana and it was past its prime. How is a guy supposed to choose?
A: The same way you choose during the elections.

Q: Presently, how can the smart bulgarian converse with the stupid bulgarian?
A: By calling him from Canada.

Q: Is it true that cats are very sneaky creatures?
A: Sometimes. In bad times they try to pass themselves off as rabbit meat.

Q: Is it necessary for comrade Zhivkov (Bulgaria's dictator of 35 years from 1954-1989) to have so much security?
A: Hardly. Up until now, no one has tried to steal him.

Q: How are we supposed to know if we are talking to an aware and rational citizen or an ignorant one?
A: The former frequently checks behind him to see if anyone is there.

Q: Are there going to be idiots under Communism?
A: No. Even those, who believed in communism in the past, will no longer be idiots.

Q: Tell me where does all of our wheat go? Where does the lumber from our forests go? Where do the treasures from our museums go? Where does our oil go?
A: We asked our colleague Krikor to find out the answer to your question. Coincidently, we are also trying to figure out where our colleague went.

Q: Can we boast about some accomplishment of Soviet agriculture?
A: Yes. We sow (colonize) the cosmos, yet we receive our crops from Canada.

Q: Was the working day long in the Stalinist gulags?
A: No. The working day was 8 hours - from 8 to 8.

Q: Is it really that important for the USSR to send the first man to Mars?
A: The people would quite happy to send the First man. (In this context, the "First man" means the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR)

Q: What am I supposed to do if I'm at a bar and some strangers sits down next to me and starts sighing heavily?
A: Tell him to immediately stop with the anti-socialist propaganda.

Q: What would happen if Bulgaria were to invade the Sahara Desert?
A: In a few years they would have to import sand.

Q: How am I supposed to tell if a plane in the sky is Soviet or Chinese?
A: If it is actually flying, then it's Soviet.

Q: Is it possible to predict the results of the next elections for the Central Committee of the USSR?
A: Unfortunately, No. A few days ago, the document with the exact figures was stolen by the secretariat.

Q: Will we win in a war against America?
A: There will always be someone left to prove to us that we have actually won.

Q: Can an elephant be wrapped up in a newspaper?
A: Yes, if the newspaper contains the musings of Todor Zhivkov.

Q: Why has the Red Army stayed so long in Czechoslovakia?