Quote Originally Posted by CrossLOPER View Post
EVERYTHING sounds like SOCIALISM.
Fix'd. (Not a jibe at CrossLOPER)
Being a socialist, (Social Democrat actually, but it's a broad term), it irritates me how conservative Americans automatically label anything they dislike as socialism. At least do some research and realise that America has a long, long way to go before becoming a socialist state. Trust me; Barack Obama is not a socialist. If he was, you'd know, considering that I and most of Europe would be gushing about him wherever I went.
Obama has the potential though. If he really steps up the environmental work, then he could create a Solar-Powered Keynesian Economy, meaning no nasty supply side shocks as a result of oil.
It doesn't matter if your economic ideals mean that a few people can achieve wealth beyond their wildest dreams; whilst there are black males in inner city slums whose life expectance doesn't creep past 30, whilst families are driven to bankruptcy to pay medical costs, whilst New Orleans still lies empty and devastated, the wealth of a few become irrelevant compared to the poverty of the many.