[TheRealThing]

“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.

Saying the market is socialist just might be the goofiest thing you've said yet.

Bolded -- No that's for certain. You're no student of history either. And your batting average falls off from that point where it comes to discerning current events.

The recession of note didn't even hit the US until it was in full swing across Europe. Even then it was the moronic machinations of Barney Frank, ordering the financial district to give loans to people who had not a ghost of a chance of repaying, that tipped the equation. The real head banger is in recognizing that Democrats didn't learn a thing from the housing bubble burst. Just give the people stuff. Along comes Bernie Sanders and you guys are all-in. Along comes AOC and you're all-in. From my perspective liberals would back Satan himself if he ran. The only qualifier is to oppose conservative values and for libs, it's all good.

The people, who BTW know that their federal government is of, by and for the people, proceeded to elect Republican majorities in the Congress and then proceeded to install a Republican President. The unelected deepstate and Democrat Conference of the Congress then proceeded to go to war with the people, and tried to rob them of their government. And you're on here and I'm sure other places. cheerleading for the left cause and pleading your case as if it made any sense at all or any merit whatever. You know where would freeze over before you'll sell a true conservative of a thing.


Trying to get the edge by playing the race card huh? The US isn't perfect and it will never be perfect. That doesn't change the fact that anybody can rise from obscurity and become President. Obama ring a bell? We have equality of opportunity and freedom of religion here. People are supposed to work. And people who're not born rich are not oppressed.