NYcarbineer
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- Mar 10, 2009
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There is no "right amount" of socialism. That's like saying there is a right amount of poison in your food.
They always consider any government whatsoever to be SOCIALISM so they can point to it and say "ah ah ah!!! it's working!!!"
Socialism requires government command of at least some part of the economy. Not regulation, not oversight, command.
Like public schools, the military, state and local public works departments, law enforcement, the judiciary, FEMA (lol)
that sort of thing?
All overhead, not part of the private economy. When government starts running factories and refineries, that is socialism.
The rest is just government.
lol, some good pretzeling there.
So there's no socialism in America? What are you rightwing nuts crying about then?
Single payer healthcare would be an example of socialism, i.e. taking over an entire sector of the private economy.
That's what we don't want.
Single payer healthcare does not fit your definition.