| TheRealMafoo said: I am not really a fan of socialism or communism, so I will vote McCain. Anyone who uses the term "economic justice", needs to never lead this country. |
Well unless you are part of the top 0.5% who have heavily benefitted from the Bush administration's biggest tax cuts, which have cost almost three times as much as the war in Iraq if you actually look at the numbers, then you are seriously misinformed.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_steven_l_080123_economic_woes_a_resu.htm
Fears of "Socialism" and "Communism" are exactly the kind of fear tactics that the Republicans love you to buy into, because it is the same fear tactics that the backward rednecks, evangelicals, and even a lot of easily swayed independent voters buy into.
And in a lot of ways the "socialist" countries you are lambasting have their shit much more together than we do. Look at how we rank in terms of health care. At least we beat Cuba, by two spots...
http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html
1 France2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
6 Singapore
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
10 Japan
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
24 Cyprus
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
28 Israel
29 Morocco
30 Canada
31 Finland
32 Australia
33 Chile
34 Denmark
35 Dominica
36 Costa Rica
37 United States of America
38 Slovenia
39 Cuba
40 Brunei
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
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