- Occupy Healthcare
Ridiculous! Why would anyone listen to him?
“Heritage Foundation president and former Senator Jim DeMint suggested
to a town hall audience in Wilmington, Delaware Thursday that health care
programs like Medicare and Medicaid are “un-American” and built on the
principles of “socialism and collectivism.”’
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Charles Brown They are built on principles of socialism and collectivism
, but socialism and collectivism are as American as apple pie. The
following are built on the same principles: pretty much all local
government , including water and sewerage, garbage pickup, police and fire
services, public health, public parks etc. Also socialist are public
schools, Social Security, public roads and highways, the whole military.
America has a long history of successful socialist institutions.
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Janet Roe-Darden <https://www.facebook.com/janet.roedarden> DeMint is
an effing idiot, and I was appalled when he left politics to head the
Heritage Foundation. Ye gods....
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Janet Roe-Darden <https://www.facebook.com/janet.roedarden> If you
ever see a good politician out of SC, do let me know. So far, I'm pretty
underwhelmed. No wonder the Civil War started down there.
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Geoffrey L. Garfield <https://www.facebook.com/geoffrey.garfield> Yet
he benefits from both.
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Janet Roe-Darden <https://www.facebook.com/janet.roedarden> (Snort)
'Course he does!
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Charles Brown<https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001041473643> However,
he is correct that Medicaid and Meticare are based on socialist and
collectivist principles. It is just that socialism and collectivism are
good principles, and they are very American given all the socialist
institutions that long have been basic to America.
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Geoffrey L. Garfield <https://www.facebook.com/geoffrey.garfield> No
socialism for banks and Wall Street!
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Janet Roe-Darden <https://www.facebook.com/janet.roedarden> The
average American doesn't really understand socialism, so they can ALWAYS
use that as a talking point to scare folks. It's just a reframing of the
"Red Peril."
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Janet Roe-Darden <https://www.facebook.com/janet.roedarden> What sort
of socialism is it when the big guns get it and the little guy doesn't?
Isn't that more like National Socialism?
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Charles Brown<https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001041473643> I
forgot, with the bailout of Wall Street, GM and Chrysler, they are all
basically operating under socialist principles , too
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Janet Roe-Darden <https://www.facebook.com/janet.roedarden> Charles.
I don't believe that, you don't forget anything! (Smile)
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Charles Brown<https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001041473643> The
little guys do get Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, water and sewerage,
and all the services of local government. America has a lot more socialism
than we have been allowed to realize.
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Janet Roe-Darden <https://www.facebook.com/janet.roedarden> And
people like DeMint would love to privatize all of those...
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Charles Brown<https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001041473643> Yes,
it is time to re-educate the average American and let them know they live
under a substantially socialist system. There is a new generation that has
not been subject to anti-socialist lies since the end of the Soviet Union.
Polls show a large percentage who favor socialism as they know it. We
should teach that we already have a lot of socialism.