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   Comment by mike w. on 11 July 2008 at 5:38 pm:

   I’m not surprised. The Democratic party has gone far enough left that a socialist party is hardly necessary.
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   Comment by Mike Matthews on 11 July 2008 at 5:43 pm:

   Ugh. Mike W. obviously has had one too many doses of Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity today.
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   Comment by mike w. on 11 July 2008 at 5:56 pm:

   Nope. I don’t watch fox news. I’m not even a Conservative.
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   Comment by David on 11 July 2008 at 5:58 pm:

   Actually this party is a little to the left of the socialists. It is the Socialist Worker’s Party which has a Marxist base. Mike W. is right, a plain old socialist wouldn’t do. The Democrats stole their platform years ago. The perennial socialist Presidential candidate said as much himself when he declined to run a couple of elections ago.
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   Comment by Brian on 11 July 2008 at 6:05 pm:

   The Democrats are hardly far enough to the left.
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   Comment by RAY K> on 11 July 2008 at 6:29 pm:

   Socialism bailed us out in the 1930`s, It may well have to come to our rescue again. When basic needs such as food, energy, and health care cannot be meet with middle class pay chk`s than socialism will have to suffice. If trends of the past two years continue, and they show signs of getting worse not better, It will become a reality, although no one will call it by it`s name, they called the new deal back then, it will be socialism.
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   Comment by mike w. on 11 July 2008 at 6:30 pm:

   Well obama’s concept of “rights” is strikingly similar to FDR’s.

   http://anothergunblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-credit-card-bill-of-rights.html
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   Comment by RickJ19958 on 11 July 2008 at 6:39 pm:

   Jokes may ensue, but do so at your own risk (I’m looking at you RickJ).

   Yeah, but…

   Aw, fiddlesticks.
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   Comment by RAY K> on 11 July 2008 at 7:11 pm:

   Mike W. I will not dispute that caveat emptor is the way of the world and people should have known what they were getting into, the real problem is with energy, food, and health care costs rising more and more people are finding it hard to make even the minimum payments and are only now realizing how high late charges and overlimit fees can add up. It`s causing a record number of defaults, creating a collapsing house of cards that will affect us all eventually. IndyMac national, one of the largest mortgage lenders in the country just failed moments ago and were taken over by the FDIC. Fifth bank this year, with many more to follow.
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    Comment by Art Downs on 13 July 2008 at 12:07 pm:

    Did ’socialism’ really bail us out in the 1930’s or did that ‘alphabet soup’ diet merely prolong the agony until 1938?

    There is always a political advantage in ‘doing something. even if it’s wrong’. It gives the impression that you care. Results are another matter.

    Socialism on a grand scale in inherently evil. Look at the fate of Poland and Czecholovakia. They had booming economies before WW II and could be compared in prosperity with Switzerland and Northern Italy. They had been reduced to near subsistence level until the Evil Empire collapsed.

    Ireland went on a low tax path and their economy is booming.
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    Comment by RAY K> on 14 July 2008 at 12:00 am:

    Art Downs;
    “Poland and Czecholovakia had booming economies before WWII”
    Not true in the case of poland, they were mired in the same world wide depession we were. Why else would they send calvary out to meet Hitler`s tanks?
    In the case of Czecholovakia, they were suppling Hitler`s army with guns and tanks, otherwise they would have been broke also.
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    Comment by mike w. on 15 July 2008 at 3:03 pm:

    Socialism has never worked, yet liberals seem to think it’ll work “if only the right people are in power.” People like Barack “hope n’ change” Obama.
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    Comment by liberalgeek on 15 July 2008 at 3:05 pm:

    Actually, we don’t want socialism. We would like more of a safety net for the least advantaged among us, but socialism isn’t the answer.

    Who’s got the strawman argument now?
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    Comment by mike w. on 15 July 2008 at 3:07 pm:

    OK, the more PC term would be “social democracy” like we see in the UK and much of western europe. It’s still a degree of socialism.
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    Comment by liberalgeek on 15 July 2008 at 3:15 pm:

    Yes, it is a degree. There are no pure Capitalist or Socialist societies. Only degrees either way.
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    Comment by mike w. on 15 July 2008 at 6:21 pm:

    And the further towards socialism we move the further away we’ll be from the principles under which this great nation was founded. Socialism and Liberty cannot co-exist together.

    We left England to be different than them. I’d prefer we continue that trend.