Has the US been a socialist country during large parts of the last century?

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demacII said:
When you pay ~17% of your earnings paid by your employer or yourself for Social Security, Medicare and Unemployment Insurance. Sounds fairly socialist. The Social Security/Medicare is payable up to ~95,000 income.

Do your kids pay to go to school? Does the govt assist the people in a time of need? FDA? Safety and Security? The Americans trust government control on everything except there health care. What population of the workforce work in unions? Which is an extremely socialist structure. All of you union folk are reaping the benefits of socialism.

 

Safety and security is not building a socialist structure IMO, since it is part of the libertarian system of property protection, but yes, Marx addresses this 'freedom' as a false one because the ownership is in first hand in the hands of the state and only through this ownership it can regulate and make laws for 'private ownership'.

Do real hard core neo liberals want public schools? Probably not, and if you look at the US current situation the public schooling seem to suck pretty hard. The NCLB Act can be seen as a step toward less state control of the school in favour for a more privatized system.

Still, under the umbrella of capitalism and state security (nation security) the US is able to have (probably) the largest 'public' spending in the world.