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All the "socialism" talk from the right is enough to make one pound one's head against the floor.
Most of the people I've spoken to that are worried about Obama bringing us "socialism" don't know the first thing about it. It's so frustrating. However it is something I've come to expect from most conservatives and Republicans. They just don't think things through too well. Pity. It's why the country is in the toilet right now. Not that most liberals are all that much better. But that's another story. Anyway, here's some comments stolen from another web site. Just thought they were good:

By "socialism", I guess the Republicans mean that they don't want to adopt the radical policies of such fringe states as---say---the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Canada, or (God forbid) France.

• Places where you don't go bankrupt because you get appendicitis.
• Places with better life expectancies, lower infant mortality, and yet markedly lower health care costs.
• Places where you pay a nominal fee or nothing to go to the best universities and colleges.
• Places with high school students a year or more advanced in mathematics and the sciences, and where the idea of a metal detector in a school is ridiculous.
• Places where citizens have better quality-of-life outcomes, work fewer hours, and have more vacation, and yet maintain high productivity and innovation.
• Places that look after their elderly.
• Places that seem able to do all of this, and yet maintain a wealthy society that supports innovation and individual ambition.

If that's "socialism", then the Republicans have to explain to us why we shouldn't look at models that have been clearly more successful than our own. It's not about ideology; a totally dispassionate look at the data shows that in certain areas, these models are extremely effective and efficient. Now that our backs are against the wall, it is not good enough to simply chant that the American Way is *always* the best way, when the evidence so starkly shows this to be a lie

Please tunnel-visioned Republicans, go watch a lot of Bruce Willis and Chuck Norris movies and let the adults clean up the mess you've made over the last 30 years....