"all the pundit hilarity about people receiving socialized health insurance via Medicare railing against socialized health insurance,"
Break this to those folks gently. It would have shocked me, had I not worked in a VA Socialized Medical Center for 10 years. Those green checks were a give-away. Didn't much bother me cuz I liked socializing with the vets.
Ironically, the Socialistic VA was started under Hoobert Heever, which proves that the socialistic R's have been trying to destroy the economy for 80 years. Bush and Hoover were the best at it. Who's #1? I think it's too soon to tell, and Raygun may still be a dark horse cuz Bush just marked the end of Raygunism.
Lawrence O'Donnell Responds To Glenn Beck: 'We're All Socialists Now' (VIDEO)
First Posted: 11-10-10 11:55 AM On his Tuesday show. Lawrence O'Donnell told Glenn Beck: I am a socialist -- and so are you.
During his debate with Glenn Greenwald on Friday's "Morning Joe," MSNBC's O'Donnell called himself a "socialist." On his Monday show, Beck used this statement as evidence that radicals embedded in the media and the government are beginning to "unmask themselves." He also said he found it disturbing that people at NBC would want to "pal around" with a socialist.
On Tuesday's "Last Word," O'Donnell responded to Beck's criticism. He defended his use of the word "socialist" -- and said that, if he was being accurate, Beck would call himself one too.
O'Donnell said that he was a socialist because he supported programs such as Medicare and Social Security -- which are, he said, explicitly socialistic at heart. He described Medicare as "a socialist idea whose time had come in a capitalist society." Moreover, he said, everyone who supports such programs is supporting socialism.
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He quoted economist Milton Friedman;s famous maxim that "we are all Keynesians now," and adopted it for himself: "we are all socialists now."
"The argument in this country is not socialism or no socialism," he said, adding later that the "political sting" of the word needed to be removed.
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My name is Mike, and I'm a socialistic oil addict. |
