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Re:Why The U.S. Economy Is Dying And Is Simply Not Going To ... by TomOfTTB on Monday March 15, 2010 @04:14AM (#1192404)
I don't think that's the author's fault. The truth is "Socialism" has always been ill defined. By the definition I was originally taught (a society where Government intervenes in the private industry to mitigate inequality) the U.S. has been socialist for my entire life time.

That said, you took that quote out of context. The real focus of it was on "welfare state" and it was presented with the fact that the Food Stamp program is adding 20,000 new people each day. If that's true than he's right about us quickly becoming a welfare state.

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Re:Why The U.S. Economy Is Dying And Is Simply Not Going To ... by WorkerBee on Monday March 15, 2010 @08:19AM (#1192746)
But even if you define "socialist welfare state" broadly, as "some of the left-ish countries in Eurpore that have a comprehensive social safety-net" (and purely by co-incidence to be sure, also are peaceful, democratic, affluent and have a high standard of living), then the US of A is not "very quickly becoming a socialist welfare state." Not even close.
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