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111 comments on How Much Nationalization Is Appropriate?

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Stuart Studebaker on October 8, 2008 - 11:44am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Why do Americans keep insisting that any sort of collective social action is communism?

Because their society is screwed in the head. Everywhere else I go there is some kind of public health system. but I talk to my brother in law in Indiana and he thinks it's SOCIALISM!!! And if the health care system goes to gov't we're all on the way to the gulag. He's typical, and he's an idiot. I would think he's a singularity, but I've met his neighbours and they are all of the same view.

It's as sad as it is pathetic, and is one of the reasons I left. I just got sick of the stupidity. There's plenty of stupidity elsewhere, but at least I'm away from that particular variety of wilful ignorance combined with wishful thinking and obdurant adherence to superstition and narrowminded idiocy.

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hummingbird on October 8, 2008 - 2:40pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Stuart. I know what you are saying--I live in Indiana where universal health care is socialism but nationalizing Wall Street is not. I guess it comes from listening to Rush Limbaugh, but you would think that even a little bit of common sense would show the fallacy here.

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Ignatz on October 8, 2008 - 9:20pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

"Fascists promote corporatism, ... which typically allows a significant degree of freedom from state intervention for private interests that are operating well independently or are outside of national interests, but if areas of the economy vital to national interests are operating poorly, or require direction to operate in accordance to national interest, state intervention is utilized."

Well hello, and who is this here here then?

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DelusionaL on October 8, 2008 - 9:53pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

National Heath Care is socialism because and only because it is currently very profitable. Our insurance for self employed under 50's is 14,000 per year. The politicians can talk all they want that $5,000 rebate or what ever. This is a bridge to nowhere.
health insurance is cheap when everybody has it. Thanks to the Hill-Burton act those without get to pay nothing and we get to pay extra via higher and higher insurance premiums.
So we have de-facto national health care. Like everything else there are too few payee's.

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