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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat exactly has Obama socialized?
Did he socialize the banks? No, just gave them money to do with as they willed... did he socialize the auto industry? No, just gave them financial backing to get through bankruptcy... did he socialize BP for causing a huge environmental disaster? Nope, slap on the wrist and a laughably small fine... Oh! Oh! Obamacare! Totally socialism in action! Except, no, it's based on existing private insurance companies and they get to stay autonomous from the government with just a few more regulations...
Well, shit... all I've heard for the last few months is Obama is a socialist this, and Obama is a socialist that... Don't see too much socialism going on here... bummer...
But all hilarity aside, am I wrong here?
aquart
(69,014 posts)Blue Meany
(1,947 posts)Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)progressoid
(49,978 posts)But sadly, no banks were nationalized.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,406 posts)It's a BS meme made up by crazies and loons to scare people into voting against President Obama/Democrats. Socialism is the "new" Communism for them. Most people don't even have a real understanding of the word. They're just instinctively supposed to know or think that it's something "bad" and to be feared. That's the long and short of it.
leftstreet
(36,106 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,445 posts)us know.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)"Socialist"?
Rambis
(7,774 posts)It would be monumentally difficult to fire up the google or pick up a dictionary to see what it really means but they know socialism is evil the wingers told me so.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)not Obama, but the FED. By diluting the dollar in order to save the finance industry.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)Translated: "I got nothin"