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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (322277)	1/22/2007 7:14:23 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573895

America actually needs more socialism. Not as much as Canada has but more. Well-run social programs save huge amounts of money and benefit average people. America under Bush especially has a fast widening economic social gulf. The top 2% are getting higher and higher above everyone else. The CEO's make ungodly amounts of money. Everyone else is losing their job security, health care, educational opportunities, you name it. And the people trying to live like the rich do are going deeply into debt living ina fool's paradise while greedy lenders wait to foreclose on them. This is what happens when you slash taxes for the rich much more than you do for the middleclass, then you let industry do whatever it wants (including corrupt congress) ship good jobs overseas to save money for the CEO and stockholder class. You can say 30 million Americans own stock, but the average portfolio is about $30,000, less than the average debt these days. The real wealth, the meaningful wealth is almost all the top 2%. Those are the ones the GOP has been serving. At the very least we need national health care, higher taxes on the rich and a balanced budget amendment. But we also need to take back our energy policy from big oil, protect our environment from industrial pollutors, help middleclass kids get a better education, and make sure all the rich tax cheats are caught, forced to pay and punished. basically the rich and big corps have not being doing their fair share under Bushies. That is a huge problem and it's unsustainable. Also privatization is just a ticket to rob the public. That's why Bush's new health care idea totally sucks. It's just taxing people to give more money to the big corporations. It's all for the corporate hierarchy and not for average people.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (322277)	1/22/2007 9:25:24 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573895

re: The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Did you make that up? We have some socialistic programs in the US, and they work pretty well. re: One thing to consider is that socialism by its very nature is a "one size fits all" system that caters to the lowest common denominator. You always react to the extreme. A nice mix of capitalism and some socialistic policy makes for a nice mutually beneficial society. Huge divisions between the haves and the have nots is not healthy or sustainable. Just a little fairness... there is plenty to go around. And the rich can still be rich.