[Cardfan1]

Wow, you already sound just like Bernie.

The United States has not practiced socialism. We make weekly contributions to social security. And our employers designate health care as part of our wages. Consequently while we are young and healthy, our contributions to the health industry subsidize others until we start needing the same services when we age. As such those are the only two examples of Keynesian economics that make sense. What we don't like is able bodied men who lay around expecting welfare. People who do work are forced to pay the bill for that.

In the Eurozone people expect things to be handed to them too. Because of the onset of socialism in the Eurozone, countries like Greece, Italy, and France are teetering on collapse. Socialist policies do not work, and thus England has made her exit.

“This country has socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor.”

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, 1968

That was 1968 if MLK could only see it now.

Maybe I am. I do know the last two presidents have handed out hundreds of BILLIONS to corporations over bad policies and risky borrowing. None of it the fault of the average American citizen. We are on the hook while the culprits skate away with millions or billions in the bank.

You're turning a blind eye to the market socialism and focusing on the human services wing of socialism. Why? Why does that dig in the right wing's craw that some of their money will go to someone less than them, but have no problem when the rich aren't expected to pay their share?

Also you don't elect to do those deductions, so it's socialism.
Don't worry if Congress passes the recent 4.8 trillion dollar budget recommended by the president the death of those social programs will begin, and that part of socialism will die. I guarantee the part where we prop up markets will still exist though.

I'm no economist, but didn't the Eurodebt crisis occur in the wake of our Great Recession? Banks had done the exact same thing ours had done by leveraging too many of their assets on the US and global markets. It had little to do with people wanting handouts.