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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Father Terrence who wrote (24057)	7/12/2000 5:12:25 PM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Do you consider "corporate welfare" a form a socialism? Such as: publicly financed stadiums, government research grants to private corporations (some of which make a lot of sense, but are welfare just the same), government not charging the full market value for mining/grazing rights on government land, governments giving grants to business to make improvements to their infrastructure (this happens a lot with railroads these days). If you consider these examples of "corporate welfare" to be socialism (I certainly do, the money is being distributed by a central public authority, aka government), then you must conclude that the biggest proponents of socialism in America today are the same corporations who benefit so dearly from being on the "corporate welfare" government dole. I'm not saying that "corporate welfare/socialism" is all bad, but we need to call it what it is. No President has come close to creating for the average Joe the "corporate welfare/socialism" that exists today, and will continue to exist as long as corporations are around to benefit from it. BTW, FDR was elected 4 times in a free and fair election. He was hardly a dictator.

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