Comments on: Game Over http://sillyreason.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/game-over/ Searching For Reason In American Politics Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:12:10 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: 80cent http://sillyreason.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/game-over/#comment-96 80cent Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:53:24 +0000 http://sillyreason.wordpress.com/?p=171#comment-96 Wow. Long post. As to your first point, and probably the only one I'll address, is that while America has become the superpower, I will absolutely call it's policies failed. Our poverty level has risen, incomes for the middle class have dropped, while costs of health care, quality of public education and civil liberties have gone down the tubes. Yes, our rich people are the richest, our athletes are the fastest, and we spend more on our military then the rest of the world combined. But I think that it's time we stopped spending a million dollars an hour on killing and worried about the Americans at home. That's why I do say the policies are failures. I don't care if big corporations are getting taxed more, and I also don't expect or want to pay for people who choose to be lazy. That's the catch 22 of socialism vs. free market enterprise. With too much socialism, the fear is that people will leech off the system and want a free ride. With an unguarded free market system, we know the rich get richer and the poor and middle class bear the brunt with little to no benefit. While it's clear that neither would work on it's own, and I don't claim to understand the complexity of our financial systems, I do know that America has the lowest life expectancy of any first world nation. I know that we have the most capitalist system of any 1st world nation. I think that we need to stop thinking that socialism has anything to do with Soviet Russia, and realize that we already have many socialized aspects in our lives (police, fire, military, schools, roads, libraries, etc...) I am not pushing for communism. I am pushing for people to think. Now that I'm way off topic on our President, I'll try to get back. My point was that I can have real valid disagreements with the President; not to be cool or hip, but because I think he's doing things wrong. That's a freedom of America that many people try to take away in the name of America. That's what my post was about. Wow. Long post. As to your first point, and probably the only one I’ll address, is that while America has become the superpower, I will absolutely call it’s policies failed. Our poverty level has risen, incomes for the middle class have dropped, while costs of health care, quality of public education and civil liberties have gone down the tubes.

Yes, our rich people are the richest, our athletes are the fastest, and we spend more on our military then the rest of the world combined. But I think that it’s time we stopped spending a million dollars an hour on killing and worried about the Americans at home.

That’s why I do say the policies are failures. I don’t care if big corporations are getting taxed more, and I also don’t expect or want to pay for people who choose to be lazy.

That’s the catch 22 of socialism vs. free market enterprise. With too much socialism, the fear is that people will leech off the system and want a free ride. With an unguarded free market system, we know the rich get richer and the poor and middle class bear the brunt with little to no benefit.

While it’s clear that neither would work on it’s own, and I don’t claim to understand the complexity of our financial systems, I do know that America has the lowest life expectancy of any first world nation. I know that we have the most capitalist system of any 1st world nation.

I think that we need to stop thinking that socialism has anything to do with Soviet Russia, and realize that we already have many socialized aspects in our lives (police, fire, military, schools, roads, libraries, etc…)

I am not pushing for communism. I am pushing for people to think. Now that I’m way off topic on our President, I’ll try to get back.

My point was that I can have real valid disagreements with the President; not to be cool or hip, but because I think he’s doing things wrong. That’s a freedom of America that many people try to take away in the name of America. That’s what my post was about.

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