Hannity asks if "this very hour" -- "this hour" -- is when America turned "completely towards socialism"
March 21, 2010 9:55 pm ET
From the March 21 edition of Fox News' Hannity:
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More like, millions of uninsured Americans are about to get insures. God. Republican motto: we care about America. Not Americans.
I wish President Obama would start those FEMA camps wingnuts like Sean's on-air rival Beck talked about. I'd love to see them bunking together.
Take Van Susteren, for example. She has a degree in law, but doesn't seem to know as much as she should in order to be able to discuss the CBO report, the provisions in this bill, Congressional rules and procedures, etc. I also feel that they don't think accuracy in media is that important as long as the big checks keep rolling in their direction.
Your post is an excellent example of what I'm talking about. They don't think that socialism has any positive aspects and that unregulated free markets mean success for all. Never mind that the free market system has several flaws, hence the need for some type of interventions to offset the negative effects of the flaws. The free market has the tendency to lead to monopolies and oligopolies, if left unchecked, but based on my assessment of the amount of economics some of the conservatives understand, they would think that this would actually increase competition and lower prices. they don't seem to realize that the outcome would be the opposite. Nor do they seem to understand that these are the major maket structures in the health care industry, and that the best health care system would be single payer and the next best would be one with a public option.
It's a good thing.
/snark
Next you're going to be insulting Cylons with that comparison.
The hour we turned to socialism was when we passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
But the United States survived that, so I guess it's not the answer.
Perhaps our hour of socialism was when we created the modern income tax.
No, that can't be it -- that was almost a hundred years ago, and the United States didn't collapse.
Maybe the hour we turned to Socialism was when we passed the Wagner Act. Or perhaps our socialist hour was when we passed old age pensions.
Nope, those were over 70 years ago, and the United States is still standing.
Well, then it was definitely when we passed Medicaid, Head Start, Medicare and the school lunch program.
Nope, those were close to fifty years ago, and we're still here.
The arguments against progress never change, and their worst predictions never come to pass.
Maybe now is the time to stop listening to them.
For ignorance of one's enemy brings fear. Fear and doubt cloud the mind, allowing for their evil to seep in. And once that has taken hold, it's a short slide to being a neocon.
Their opposition isn't about socialism, and it's not about principles. This is about opposising all thing Obama, all things Democratic, and it completely exposes their propensity, no, more like their catastrophic irrational attraction, to putting party ahead of coutnry.
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They'd better hope America never wakes up. Their careers (at a minimum) are over if that ever happens.