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Originally posted by Rokenn:
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Originally posted by khazadman:
Maybe it's time for the majority in this country to take it back. Many people out here in the real world, as opposed to easily offended academics, are tired of having their beliefs trampled by social engeneers who want to remake this nation into something more closely resembling one of the socialist European states.
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Thank the Founders they had the forsight to keep this from happening.
The only way this would happen would be through an coup, you would not be advocating the overthrow of our constitutional government now would you? [/QUOTE]No. I have pointed out before that we are to some degree socialist. In a "capitalist" society, private enterprise owns everything. In communism, the government owns everything. Socialism is very truly the vast sliding scale in between the two, of varying degrees of how much the government owns property and substitutes social services and government monopolies for those that would otherwise be provided by private enterprise.
Considering our government collects on average 50% of all of our dollars (between state, fed, and local) and spends them for us and Norway's government collects about 60-70% of their citizens currency (Euro?) to spend, is there really a vast difference allowing us to label one as "Capitalist" and the other as "Socialist?" [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img] You may be offended by the idea or the word "socialism," but do not let that blind you to the reality that the USA is quite socialistic.