In President Harry's Truman's remarks in Syracuse, New York on October 10, 1952, he said this:

[elleng]

Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.



Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.



Socialism is what they called farm price supports.



Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.



Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.



Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.



When the Republican candidate inscribes the slogan "Down With Socialism" on the banner of his "great crusade," that is really not what he means at all.



What he really means is "Down with Progress--down with Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal," and "down with Harry Truman's fair Deal." That's all he means.

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[niyad]

1. Exactly.

[alwaysinasnit]

2. Although I've never come across anyone who actually uses the term, if I ever do, my first

question to them will be "can you define what socialism is?"

Excellent post elleng. Thanks!

[Lovie777]

3. K & R . . .

[halfulglas]

4. Basically most people seem to define socialism is when government money or

Government backing helps the other person better themselves or live a better life.

[cksmithy]

5. Socialism is a

dirty word because Hitler's Nazi official party name is Nationalist Socialist German Worker's Party. Of course socialism has nothing to do with being a Nazi but that is how Putin has used propaganda to call Ukraine, a democratic nation, as a nation full of nazis. As stated, any progress or FDR's New Deal and Harry Truman Fair Deal is bad because in their tiny brains they can't differentiate between a nazi and the socialist programs that built our highways, infrastructure, schools, etc. Socialism, our taxes has built our nation. I for one want the police or fire department to show up when I call them, not a private, cash paid service that doesn't show up.

[elleng]

6. right

[Stuart G]

7. For all to read. I especially like the last 3 on the list ...K and R Thanks for posting this.

[Stuart G]

8. One more..."Socialism" is very cheap and almost free water for everyone.

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and not just water to drink, but water to flush, water to wash & baith and water to cook with.

It is the greatest gift of modern life. Yes, the absolute greatest gift of all.

(and very few people realize that gift) ...When I was a teenager, or a bit younger, (11 or 12) I took a tour
through one of Chicago's Filtration Plants...It was remarkable. And all the water filtrated was fit to drink.

The plant was right on Lake Michigan, near 79th street. Also ...all the water filtered at the plant went to all
Chicago...and all that was fit to drink. So, you washed it, flushed it, cooked it, but all was fit to drink.
What a great service of the city, and since it was right in the city..on the city property, the water was
very, very, cheap. A total gift, and that is the reason Chicago grew into one of the most populated cities
in the U.S.A. Plentiful, and cheap drinkable pure water.

Oh, one more idea...If you look at Lake Michigan from a Chicago view, you will see a very large lake. That lake has
lots and lots of water & extends at least 40 miles wide and 400 miles long. It is one of the "Great Lakes"


At the link below is a view of Lake Michigan from a Chicago high rise building. The road is "Lake Shore Drive"

And Yes, I have seen that view. It is from the skytop view from the John Hancock Center in near north Chicago. The skytop view is at 875 North Michigan Avenue.

The Sears Tower is taller but the view at the Hancock Building is far better. Why? Because the Hancock Building is right on Lake Michigan. Hard to see the lake from the Sears Tower. Yes, I have been to both and spent a lot of time in the viewing areas at the very top of those buildings.
............. (Yes, you got to pay to get to both of those areas).........................................

https://www.travelchannel.com/destinations/us/il/chicago/articles/what-to-do-on-lake-shore-drive