Subject: Re: No Sympathy for US car makers from me... Author: bcweir as bcweir750 : member since January, 2006 : 4824 posts Posted on: 2008-11-14 00:40:55

I've never understood the far-right's assault on socialism. I never hear any practical arguments against it, just unreasoning venom at the mere mention of the word.

Then again, I have trouble understanding a lot of their double-speak. On one hand, they rail against abortion (understandable, it's a terrible thing to kill a unborn baby, but this should be a personal moral issue, not government intrusion into a woman's body, which I thought the GOP was supposed to be against government intrusion into people's lives), and in the same mouthful, cutting funding for school lunch programs. How about warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens? Jack Abramoff? The political firing of NINE U.S. attorneys on political grounds for jobs that were supposed to be non-political positions?

Socialism gets batted around like an evil dirty word, yet in the same mouthful, the government under the GOP auspices, bails out Bear Stearns, AIG, and other enormous big banks. Now they're offering bailouts in exchange for stock in these banks. So now government ownership of private industries is OK?

Say what you will about Bill Clinton, but when Bush 43 took office, the US government had a 1 billion dollar SURPLUS. Fast forward eight years, and we're now a TRILLION Dollars (that's 1,000 BILLION, people) in debt, we're fighting two wars half a world away, government spending under the GOP has gotten completely out of control, and now the US government is now a stockholder in private banking and mortgage businesses? Whatever happened to the idea of low taxes and SMALL government?

I don't have a political science degree, and I'm not a lawyer, so maybe someone can tell me how all this still fits neatly into the GOP's platform of low taxes, less government interference in people's lives, small government, and private enterprise?

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