Is America Slipping Into Socialism?

Is America Slipping Into Socialism?

Well it should. Anyway, eventually it will, it’s inevitable. Why?

Watch the European countries like, Brittan, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, or even France, all of them are socialistic, which means, their citizens do, and quite naturally so, have affordable healthcare and social services; their economies are stable. In Sweden, for example, everyone’s gotten lazy from too much of the good thing. As the human nature tends to be, we would get lazy too by taking the ordinary things for granted.
Humanity seeks security and stability. Families must make sure that their children get good education and a good start in life. It’s a natural trend, even Rome recognized it more than 2000 years ago, and gave us the new idea.

At the break of the 19th and 20th centuries, the socialistic movements, spurred by completely natural desires, fought for their rights. Extremities like Marxism, Leninism, and Maoism were only born due to the rust-jammed capitalistic machinery enjoyed by the privileged few. The Stalins and Trotzky’s threw God away, or rather religion, just so that it’s controlling element on the human mind might be eliminated in order to spur industrial expansion. (Today China copies this model). The selfish capitalist machinery had rusted giving way to revolutions and reforms.

America was too young to go through this process; instead, it was preoccupied with labels. Like Abbott Castello’s “who’s on the first” who is a commy and who ain’t, was America’s paranoia, at least of some. McCarthianism only served us too well, protecting what? Waste of precious time.

What are we fighting for? Something the Europeans have enjoyed for decades, and which became a normal way of life? Why do we need this big hoopla about health care? Do we need champions for something which elsewhere is basic?

It is not a Democratic or Liberal idea, but common sense. If we do not regulate, we will be forced to regulate. Something must be centralized and not evolve all by itself, money is not a bacteria, it lives as long as the living navigates it. If the living has gotten too selfish and too greedy, irresponsible and uncaring then the hammer must fall on the anvil; we should not wait to long but strike the anvil now.

Government buys bad debt? Who ever heard of such a scheme? We are buying government bonds and securities? Just as the name 'security' suggests, there will be nothing secure to buy from the US government anymore. What will we invest in, junk bonds sold to us by Uncle Sam?

Whether we like it or not, especially now, with the banking crisis on our sick-with-worry heads, we slip into a mild form of socialism, which means that the taxes-paying citizens should be taken care by their government.
Is it too much to ask?

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