Quote Originally Posted by jaegerhund View Post
That's right because we are not going to allow it. F socialism or any collectivist mentality --- right up the bung hole. We don't need to trust you ---- Bruno, Belgium has a long way to go in the affairs of democratic rule before we trust it or any of its citizens. I think it is funny how a person raised under a socialist government would say "trust me" -- it is fitting and totally unAmerican --- which traditionally taught "trust yourself and your own will and your own abilities ---- don't trust people who say "trust me".

Justin
Also, if you have ever belonged to a labor union, collected unemployment insurance, are a woman who has voted, are a minority who has voted, were poor but got into college on a scholarship, or have your bank deposits covered by the FDIC, or have enjoyed the benefits of most of what we now consider normal government-funded programs, you are partaking of socialism. Don't believe it? Look at the politics of most of the originators of these ideas. Again, Americans know so little about their history and next to nothing about the history beyond the borders of the US, that it is frightening....and you get what we have now in government and in the White House. Americans view "socialism" as the government taking money out of their pockets to give it to people they don't think deserve it. They argue they "real Americans" make it on their own. So I guess all the poor and starving during the Depression (caused by rampant, unregulated capitalism) were not "real Americans." The closest the US ever came to even touch on the edge of Socialism was under FDR. Socialism and Communism are not even close to the same thing.

We need serious leaders, not comic-book hero wannabes....we need a more intelligent platform than "Vote for us or the terrorists are going to blow up the malls and married gays are going to move in next door to you and make up give up your SUV!"

After the Russian Revolution, there was a general (a "communist") who was asked a question about individuals who felt they should not have to join in manual labor to complete some project....his response was "To ne rabotaet, ne est'" (Those who won't work, won't eat!)...now to me, he sounds like a Republican.