[TheRealThing]

The United States has practiced socialism for over a 100 years now. Must take 200 to get to communism.

As I said earlier in the thread, you guys seem to enjoy some socialism when it goes to the few. Despise it when it means healthcare and education for the many.

You went to his website today after you were pushed to find a communist platform.

I’ll help you Bernie’s socialism is similar to European Socialist ideas. They generally stay out of the economy, but use taxation for social programs. This differs from the recent American corporate socialism practiced by both political parties that have doled out tax breaks and bailouts to corporations, banks, and billionaires.

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.