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Most of you don't even work for a living, so how can you
claim to be capitalist? Weak minded rightist always blame the
government for their own failures because the one thing they
fear most is personal accountability. Stop living off the
people who work and get a job.


Why are rightists living a lie?

Nine Lies That Gullible Rightists Believe and Obediently
Parrot Monday 12 April 2010

by: Bill Quigley

truthout.org - Disgraced wingnut Glenn Beck and other far
right multi-millionaires are claiming that the US is hot on
the path toward socialism. Part of their claim is that the US
is much more generous and supportive of our working and poor
people than other countries. People may wish it was so, but
it is not.

As Sen. Patrick Moynihan used to say "Everyone is entitled to
their own opinions. But everyone is not entitled to their own
facts."

The fact is that the US is not really all that generous to
our working and poor people compared to other countries.

Consider the US in comparison to the rest of the 30 countries
that join the US in making up the OECD - the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development. These 30 countries
include Canada and most comparable European countries, but
also include some struggling countries like Czech Republic,
Greece, Hungary, Korea, Mexico, Poland, Slovak Republic and
Turkey.

When you look at how the US compares to these 30 countries,
the hot air myths about the US government going all out
toward socialism sort of disappear into thin air. Here are
some examples of myths that do not hold up.

Myth No. 1: The US Government Is Involved in Class Warfare,
Attacking the Rich to Lift Up the Poor.

There is a class war going on all right. But it is the rich
against the rest of us and the rich are winning. The gap
between the rich and everyone else is wider in the US than
any of the 30 other countries surveyed. In fact, the top 10
percent in the US have a higher annual income than any other
country. And the poorest 10 percent in the US are below the
average of the other OECD countries. The rich in the US have
been rapidly leaving the middle class and poor behind since
the 1980s.

Myth No. 2: The US Already Has the Greatest Health Care
System in the World.

Infant mortality in the US is fourth worst among OECD
countries - better only than Mexico, Turkey and the Slovak
Republic.

Myth No. 3: There Is Less Poverty in the US Than Anywhere.

Child poverty in the US, at over 20 percent or one out of
every five kids, is double the average of the 30 OECD
countries.

Myth No. 4: The US Is Generous in Its Treatment of Families
With Children.

The US ranks in the bottom half of countries in terms of
financial benefits for families with children. Over half of
the 30 OECD countries pay families with children cash
benefits regardless of the income of the family. Some among
those countries (e.g. Austria, France and Germany) pay
additional benefits if the family is low income or one of the
parents is unemployed.

Myth No. 5: The US Is Very Supportive of Its Workers.

The US gives no paid leave for working mothers having
children. Every single one of the other 30 OECD countries has
some form of paid leave. The US ranks dead last in this. Over
two-thirds of the countries give some form of paid paternity
leave. The US also gives no paid leave for fathers.

In fact, it is only workers in the US who have no guaranteed
days of paid leave at all. Korea is the next lowest to the US
and it has a minimum of eight paid annual days of leave. Most
of the other 30 countries require a minimum of 20 days of
annual paid leave for their workers.

Myth No. 6: Poor People Have More Chance of Becoming Rich in
the US Than Anywhere Else.

Social mobility (how children move up or down the economic
ladder in comparison with their parents) in earnings, wages
and education tends to be easier in Australia, Canada and
Nordic countries like Denmark, Norway and Finland, than in
the US. That means more of the rich stay rich and more of the
poor stay poor here in the US.

Myth No. 7: The US Spends Generously on Public Education.

In terms of spending for public education, the US is just
about average among the 30 countries of the OECD. Educational
achievement of US children, however, is seventh worst in the
OECD. On public spending for childcare and early education,
the US is in the bottom third.

Myth No. 8: The US Government Is Redistributing Income From
the Rich to the Poor.

There is little redistribution of income by government in the
US in part because spending on social benefits like
unemployment and family benefits is so low. Of the 30
countries in the OECD, only in Korea is the impact of
governmental spending lower.

Myth No. 9: The US Generously Gives Foreign Aid to Countries
Across the World.

The US gives the smallest percentage of aid of any of the
developed countries in the OECD. In 2007, the US was tied for
last with Greece. In 2008, we were tied for last with Japan.

Despite the opinions of right-wing folks, the facts say the
US is not on the path toward socialism.

But if socialism means the US would go down the path of being
more generous with our babies, our children, our working
families, our pregnant mothers and our sisters and brothers
across the world, I think we could all appreciate it.

http://www.truthout.org/nine-myths-about-socialism-us58513

Socialism is alive and well in America and even those right
wing folks are socialists regardless of what they say..

Americans have been Socialist since our first Revolution.
Socialism is our gift to the World.
http://www.eons.com/blogs/entry/1334959-Facing-Socialism-in-Am
erica

Facing Socialism in America

Why do you think so many people are freaked out by the
concept of socialism?

Wikipedia: Socialism refers to a broad set of economic
theories of social organization advocating public or state
ownership and administration of the means of production and
distribution of goods, and a society characterized by
equality for all individuals, with a fair or egalitarian
method of compensation. What's wrong with that?

Most Americans have a problem with their own language. They
use words all the time that they do not understand.
Which brings us back to Socialism in America.

Many Americans think Socialism is some totalitarian horror
found in foreign countries, to be resisted at any cost.
Socialism is not only alive and well in America, but our
lives would be far less productive and enjoyable without it.

Any program that calls for the redistribution of wealth can
be considered socialist. For example, the tax that the United
States imposes on citizens to support the welfare system,
which provides aid to financially unstable citizens, can be
considered a socialist program. Healthcare systems like
Medicare and Medicaid fall in the same category. If someone
objects to Medicare and Medicade, I guess that they can
refuse to take advantage of it and decide to pay for private
medical service and other services.

Most American stadiums are municipal, that is to say, they're
owned by the cities. ...If that's socialism, then the US is a
socialist country. Should we close these stadiums because
they are socialist investments?

With GwB and Hank Paulson socializing private banking in
America, perhaps it's time to revisit the definition. During
the Presidential Campaign and especially after Obama was
elected, the words "socialist!" and even "communist!" have
been flying into computer Inboxes all across our Nation,
often preceded by a string of expletives.

Some that are most astounding are from folks who work for
local governmental agencies. Clearly, they have a warped
notion about what Socialism is. Somehow, they've developed a
screwball disconnect with reality. If they object to
socialism, they can quit their jobs and go to work for some
private operation.

Public highways are one of the finest examples of Socialism
in America. So are public schools, public parks and public
libraries. Not to mention Social Security and Medicare. And
police departments and town garbage collections and public
health care and so on and so on. Even benefits provided for
Congress Members are a form of Socialism.

Should our police and fire departments require a privte
contract with citizens before they will answer a call for
help? Right wing nuts would agree with this idea.

If money is taken from private enterprise, and used for the
public good, that fits my definition of Socialism. Obviously,
it also fits the definition of Ronnie Reagan, Imperial
NeoCONs, and most all Republicans since Reagan. Why would
Reagan argue for privatizing all Government functions (except
the Military) if they were not clear and present definitions
of Socialism?

The first thing GwB announced upon stealing the White House
again in 2004, was that the primary aim of his next 4 years
was to de-socialize Social Security by privatizing it. GwB
planned to reward those who purchased his Office for him by
turning Social Security over to Wall $treet Bankers to run
for profit.

Imagine, just for a moment, what America would look like
today if GwB HAD privatized Social Security. Picture the
national disaster we'd be in now if Social Security had been
moved to Wall $treet. With the subsequent Meltdown of Wall
$treet, Social Security would have all but vanished from
America, swaddled in derivatives, buried under a pile of
rubble that would rival the World Trade Center collapse on
9/11. There are reasons why Socialism keeps America running.

Government does not tax ANY of it socialized services.
Government taxes only private enterprise (Seldom) And that is
why Capitalists spend unbelievable amounts of money trying to
subvert our Government. They want to kill Socialism in
America, except for the Military, by privatizing everything
else.

Former Interior Secretary James Watt had a Plan drawn up
showing which of our National Parks he would sell off first.
The Ultimate Plan was to eventually turn all of that wasted
public land over to private management, if not outright
ownership, so that private enterprise could butcher it up and
build profitable condos, all with amazing views to enhance
their profits. This is no joke. It really, really was on the
Imperial NeoCON Drawing Board. Still is. If someone objects
to socialism, they should stay out of our national parks.

Senators Mitch McConnell (R) and Jim Bunning (R) introduce
legislation to dismantle and privatize the Tennessee Valley
Authority. The next time Mitch McConnell complains about
socialism, ask him whether he thinks the TVA should be
privatized. These folks really want WWIII anyway... they call
it armageddon.

McConnell's been respectful to Barack Obama, but he's pure
hell on FDR, as evidenced by peroration on the stimulus:

"But one of the good things about reading history is you
learn a good deal. And, we know for sure that the big
spending programs of the New Deal did not work. In 1940,
unemployment was still 15%. And, it's widely agreed among
economists, that what got us out of the doldrums that we were
in during the Depression was the beginning of World War II."

Glenn Thrush gives McConnell credit for "intellectual
honesty." I suppose. McConnell really seems to believe what
he's saying, and he votes accordingly.

Moving too slowly to suit them, taking too many decades to
accomplish, the collapse of Wall $treet and the World Economy
due to their unregulated Greed, provided a perfect
opportunity to bankrupt our Government with endless Bailouts
of private Financial Institutions. "Too big to fail," is
their slogan, meaning they must be saved, no matter how
incompetent they are, no matter what the co$t to American
taxpayers. Like all NeoCON slogans, it's sole purpose is to
divert attention away from what they are really up to.

Like all Confidence Scams, what they tell you is absolutely
NOT what they're doing.

You think it bothers them that Obama won? Get real! Passing
their engineered financial collapse on to him is a pure
bonus. If Obama must spend trillions upon trillions to cover
for their mistakes, all the better. It will speed them faster
and closer to that glorious day when EVERYTHING in America
generates a profit.

But Socialism is an integral part of the fabric which
sustains America and Americans. Many of millions of Americans
earn their taxable income directly from Socialism.

The reason the New Deal's social experiments were tried, and
succeeded, is the same reason they must come back again. The
GREED of unfettered Capitalism once nearly destroyed America,
and may yet succeed. All the assurances -- that we have
safeguards in place to prevent another Depression -- is a lot
of wishful thinking. Obviously, they have not worked
flawlessly and automatically thus far.

Part of the reason was the intentional dismantling of safety
nets brought on by Ronnie Reagan's deregulation pipe dreams.
His trickle- down notion -- that enough crumbs will fall off
rich people's plates to sustain our Nation -- was a lot of
hooey. But it was packaged to sound good, if any Americans
pulled their heads out of their TVs long enough to glance at
it.

Ronnie's ideological descendant, GwB, has been pumping money
as fast as he can out of American taxpayers and into the
already bulging pockets of his rich cronies. Rich people
don't make the idle rich richer. It's the tax-paying working
Middle Class, and struggling Small Business Owners, who make
rich people rich.

GwB, Chaney & Co have been creating a constant need for
Military Spending on a gargantuan scale (pretending it has
anything at all to do with establishing democracy anywhere in
the World) to force all of us to keep our noses to the
grindstone. Costs spiral ever upward, and no one has time to
breathe, much less to think.

The instant that Soviet Communism collapsed, and some starry
eyed "lib- ruls" began talking about beating swords into
plowshares, NeoCONs began looking around frantically for the
next War. Who wants to sell plowshares when the real money is
in tanks, rockets, planes, ships, and bullets, especially if
the Pentagon is paying.

Which brings us back to Socialism in America. The US Military
is the greatest implementation of Socialism the World has
ever seen. Concealed from public oversight by "national
security" claims, the Military provides socialized medicine,
socialized housing, socialized uniforms, socialized
transportation, socialized retirement entitlements, and even
socialized burial, far beyond the cost of armaments. Everyone
enrolled in the Military is a Socialist, as they always have
been. Should we privatize the military?

So the next time you receive anything like this over your
computer: "Don't you dare ever send me this Socialist
propaganda again you bloody communist!" -- which came from a
County Employee in VA living entirely off the largess of
Socialism -- then send back a copy of this to him. Surely he
won't understand it, but you may feel better for having done
so.

A useful clarification: Socialism taxes private enterprise,
and redistributes that wealth all across America. Only
agencies supported directly by government tax funds fit the
definition of Socialism. For instance, municipal Fire
Departments probably are. Most rural volunteer Fire
Departments are not. They're private corporations, with their
own controlling Boards of Directors, even IF they receive
Grants from Socialist Government. Electric utilities are
private corporations. So are Churches, Charities, Unions,
PACs, Trash Collectors you pay, local Arts Councils. Many
Hospitals were established by Socialist Government, but most
have been converted to profit-making private enterprise, and
that's why Health Care Co$ts have skyrocketed.

If you pay to join, or to receive services, these are likely
private corporations, not examples of Socialism. And
'tax-deductible' or 'non- profit' in their names is an
assurance that they are private, not Socialism. Again, Public
Universities are part of our home grown Socialism. Private
Universities are not. ( When I taught at Cornell, it was
strangely part private, part State. And the tuition
differences were astounding depending which part a student
was enrolled in.) Should we close all Public schools and
universities. They are socialism at work.

America is a happy mix of both, so much so that most folks
don't know the difference. If people are publicly elected to
run organizations, like School Boards, County Commissioners,
Legislatures, City Councils, they are part of American
Socialism. These are some of what Imperial NeoCONs want to
get rid of by bankrupting our Government.

And the point is this: when Right Wing-nuts couldn't scream
'communist' or 'liberal' at anyone who opposed them anymore,
they tried to turn 'socialist' into a nasty label. But it
doesn't work, because the United Socialist States of America
(USSA) is hugely socialistic, from Sea to Shining Sea.

I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave
evils [of capitalism], namely through the establishment of a
socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which
would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy,
the means of production are owned by society itself and are
utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which
adjusts production to the needs of the community, would
distribute the work to be done among all those able to work
and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and
child. The education of the individual, in addition to
promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop
in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place
of the glorification of power and success in our present
society.