Originally Posted By: INANE
Originally Posted By: fhw
If anything, it's become less socialist since Obama was elected.


The healthcare bill? The largest increase in government size and spending ever?

How could anyone interpret the US as becoming less socialist???

/boggle


The health care bill mandates that Americans who don't have insurance must buy it from private companies. The "government-run" public option never made it into the bill.

The U.S. is (thankfully) moving away from the notion that all peoples of the world are in need of democratic institutions and human rights, and it is the duty of the U.S. to lead the way.

Charter school/voucher programs are expanding

Union bargaining rights have been scaled back dramatically (think Wisconsin)

The 2001 tax cuts for high-income earners were extended, despite high unemployment and deficit figures

This is socialism?