To: TideGlider who wrote (121734 ) 4/28/2008 10:49:13 PM From: Rock_nj Read Replies (1) | Respond to I just find it funny (odd) that only government interference in the free market that benefits ordinary people is derided as "socialism", while enormous government interference in the free market such as the federal government stepping in and building a national highway system that literally changed every facet of American life and the American economy, is never called "socialism". No it's all about national security or commercer or some other excuse. Yeah, those Ruskies who couldn't even shoot straight because they were so drunk from vodka were going to march down Main Street USA if we didn't build a national highway system. Now that I've lived through five years of the Iraq War systematic lies and deceits from the federal government (why are we there, what is the reason this month?) to keep the federal money (socialism) flowing to military-industrial complex, I have a different view of the Cold War that I grew up in. It seems more like an overplayed farce than a real bonafide threat, a justification for more central government control and more corporate welfare like the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System. Funny, but the longer George W. Bush and the spineless Congress perpetuate the Iraq war farce, the more we are looking like a big Communist state with imperial designs for the world, like the one we suppossedly oppossed during the "Cold War". Commrade Bush says we need more commrades to fight for oil in Iraq for the motherland. I could not have imagined this country going off in this direction when I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s. It seems surreal that Americans are actually fighting for oil in the Middle East, without any clear objective for being there, besides the hidden objective, which is to keep the oil under out control.
