2009-03-06, 01:23 AM
Socialism is what Europe is using right now. There are benefits to it, but also huge problems: big government, bureaucracy in health care, high taxes. Obama is commonly thought of as a socialist. He appears to have spent as much money during the first couple months of his presidency as George Bush did on Medicare D, and that's not paying him a compliment.
It's fashionable to consider socialism "the future," but America is using its own system, crafted by the Founders of America, and it's pretty damn good at what it does. There's a lot of problems in America (as anywhere) but it's a good place to live, and I personally am glad to live here. I really would rather they didn't raise taxes by like 20% and bureaucratize my country beyond what's already been done in it.
It's fashionable to consider socialism "the future," but America is using its own system, crafted by the Founders of America, and it's pretty damn good at what it does. There's a lot of problems in America (as anywhere) but it's a good place to live, and I personally am glad to live here. I really would rather they didn't raise taxes by like 20% and bureaucratize my country beyond what's already been done in it.