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Title: Newsweek: We Are All Socialists Now
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INFOWARS - NEWSWEEK
URL Source: http://www.infowars.com/newsweek-we-are-all-socialists-now/
Published: Feb 9, 2009
Author: Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas
Post Date: 2009-02-10 19:37:57 by Rotara
Keywords: None
Views: 180
Comments: 12
Newsweek: We Are All Socialists Now Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas Newsweek The interview was nearly over. on the Fox News Channel last Wednesday evening, Sean Hannity was coming to the end of a segment with Indiana Congressman Mike Pence, the chair of the House Republican Conference and a vociferous foe of President Obama’s nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill. How, Pence had asked rhetorically, was $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts going to put people back to work in Indiana? How would $20 million for “fish passage barriers” (a provision to pay for the removal of barriers in rivers and streams so that fish could migrate freely) help create jobs? Hannity could not have agreed more. “It is … the European Socialist Act of 2009,” the host said, signing off. “We’re counting on you to stop it. Thank you, congressman.” There it was, just before the commercial: the S word, a favorite among conservatives since John McCain began using it during the presidential campaign. (Remember Joe the Plumber? Sadly, so do we.) But it seems strangely beside the point. The U.S. government has already—under a conservative Republican administration—effectively nationalized the banking and mortgage industries. That seems a stronger sign of socialism than $50 million for art. Whether we want to admit it or not—and many, especially Congressman Pence and Hannity, do not—the America of 2009 is moving toward a modern European state. Poster Comment: F**kin idiots.
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#1. To: Rotara (#0)
History from a mere three months ago is already being rewritten and the mediazioprops, Hannity and Limbaugh, are leading the charge. The role of Bush, McCain and the rest of the Republicans in the Trillion Dolar rip-off of the American taxpayer by Zionist Wall Street bankers is being erased. Four years from now, the idiot sheeple shall be clammoring for "change" by supporting the Repukes.
TRAITORS TO AMERICA AND BRAINWASHED IDIOTS SUPPORT AND DEFEND ISRAEL. TO HELL WITH ZIONISTS AND THIER AMERICAN FRONTS: AIPAC/PNAC/ADL/NAACP/FEDERAL RESERVE/SPLC/JINSA/ACLU/CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS/AEI/FEDERAL MEDIA/HOLLYWOOD, et. al.
This part has no relevance as the "parties" are the government and the government is the "parties". "under a conservative Republican administration—effectively nationalized the banking and mortgage industries."
And everything else accepting bailout assistance ! The TITLE says it all ... We're All Socialists Now" !!!
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. Henry David Thoreau - 1849
Sean Hannity needs to be nailed to a cross and tossed into a sewage canal for his role as the bearer of Dubya's water bucket, he has NO room to speak after his shrill defense of the last eight years.
_________________________________________________________________________ Him and every other water toting, Bush boot-licking, conservative talk radio host. No matter what else they have had to say, they all applaud Bush's actions against "ISLAMO-FASCISM and TERROR". Fuck them all.
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. Henry David Thoreau - 1849
Two groups of people in this world. The capitalists that have only one goal in life and that is to hold wealth and power over others, regardless of what they have, there is never enough. Then there are the "others", that want only to survive and be left alone. These people are called the "masses" by the capitalists.
In many ways our economy already resembles a European one. As boomers age and spending grows, we will become even more French. The interview was nearly over. on the Fox News Channel last Wednesday evening, Sean Hannity was coming to the end of a segment with Indiana Congressman Mike Pence, the chair of the House Republican Conference and a vociferous foe of President Obama's nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill. How, Pence had asked rhetorically, was $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts going to put people back to work in Indiana? How would $20 million for "fish passage barriers" (a provision to pay for the removal of barriers in rivers and streams so that fish could migrate freely) help create jobs? Hannity could not have agreed more. "It is … the European Socialist Act of 2009," the host said, signing off. "We're counting on you to stop it. Thank you, congressman." There it was, just before the commercial: the S word, a favorite among conservatives since John McCain began using it during the presidential campaign. (Remember Joe the Plumber? Sadly, so do we.) But it seems strangely beside the point. The U.S. government has already—under a conservative Republican administration—effectively nationalized the banking and mortgage industries. That seems a stronger sign of socialism than $50 million for art. Whether we want to admit it or not—and many, especially Congressman Pence and Hannity, do not—the America of 2009 is moving toward a modern European state. We remain a center-right nation in many ways—particularly culturally, and our instinct, once the crisis passes, will be to try to revert to a more free-market style of capitalism—but it was, again, under a conservative GOP administration that we enacted the largest expansion of the welfare state in 30 years: prescription drugs for the elderly. People on the right and the left want government to invest in alternative energies in order to break our addiction to foreign oil. And it is unlikely that even the reddest of states will decline federal money for infrastructural improvements. Quantcast If we fail to acknowledge the reality of the growing role of government in the economy, insisting instead on fighting 21st-century wars with 20th-century terms and tactics, then we are doomed to a fractious and unedifying debate. The sooner we understand where we truly stand, the sooner we can think more clearly about how to use government in today's world. As the Obama administration presses the largest fiscal bill in American history, caps the salaries of executives at institutions receiving federal aid at $500,000 and introduces a new plan to rescue the banking industry, the unemployment rate is at its highest in 16 years. The Dow has slumped to 1998 levels, and last year mortgage foreclosures rose 81 percent. All of this is unfolding in an economy that can no longer be understood, even in passing, as the Great Society vs. the Gipper. Whether we like it or not—or even whether many people have thought much about it or not—the numbers clearly suggest that we are headed in a more European direction. A decade ago U.S. government spending was 34.3 percent of GDP, compared with 48.2 percent in the euro zone—a roughly 14-point gap, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In 2010 U.S. spending is expected to be 39.9 percent of GDP, compared with 47.1 percent in the euro zone—a gap of less than 8 points. As entitlement spending rises over the next decade, we will become even more French. This is not to say that berets will be all the rage this spring, or that Obama has promised a croissant in every toaster oven. But the simple fact of the matter is that the political conversation, which shifts from time to time, has shifted anew, and for the foreseeable future Americans will be more engaged with questions about how to manage a mixed economy than about whether we should have one. The architect of this new era of big government? History has a sense of humor, for the man who laid the foundations for the world Obama now rules is George W. Bush, who moved to bail out the financial sector last autumn with $700 billion. Bush brought the Age of Reagan to a close; now Obama has gone further, reversing Bill Clinton's end of big government. The story, as always, is complicated. Polls show that Americans don't trust government and still don't want big government. They do, however, want what government delivers, like health care and national defense and, now, protections from banking and housing failure. During the roughly three decades since Reagan made big government the enemy and "liberal" an epithet, government did not shrink. It grew. But the economy grew just as fast, so government as a percentage of GDP remained about the same. Much of that economic growth was real, but for the past five years or so, it has borne a suspicious resemblance to Bernie Madoff's stock fund. Americans have been living high on borrowed money (the savings rate dropped from 7.6 percent in 1992 to less than zero in 2005) while financiers built castles in the air. Quantcast Now comes the reckoning. The answer may indeed be more government. In the short run, since neither consumers nor business is likely to do it, the government will have to stimulate the economy. And in the long run, an aging population and global warming and higher energy costs will demand more government taxing and spending. The catch is that more government intrusion in the economy will almost surely limit growth (as it has in Europe, where a big welfare state has caused chronic high unemployment). Growth has always been America's birthright and saving grace. The Obama administration is caught in a paradox. It must borrow and spend to fix a crisis created by too much borrowing and spending. Having pumped the economy up with a stimulus, the president will have to cut the growth of entitlement spending by holding down health care and retirement costs and still invest in ways that will produce long-term growth. Obama talks of the need for smart government. To get the balance between America and France right, the new president will need all the smarts he can summon. If this 'tard calls the Jorge Administration "Conservative" one more time I'm going to scream.
4um Traitor He's a great ameriKan !
4um Traitor Ditto.
"under a conservative Republican administration—effectively nationalized the banking and mortgage industries." The author is a dill stick.
4um Traitor Ditto. We rewrite the revisionist history as it's being revised !
4um Traitor The role of Bush, McCain and the rest of the Republicans in the Trillion Dolar rip-off of the American taxpayer by Zionist Wall Street bankers is being erased. Four years from now, the idiot sheeple shall be clammoring for "change" by supporting the Repukes. Have you registered for your North American Union Biometric ID Card yet ? You can find a 40 frn coupon online somewhere. ;-)
4um TraitorF**kin idiots.
#2. To: Rotara (#0)
The U.S. government has already—under a conservative Republican administration—effectively nationalized the banking and mortgage industries.
#3. To: Cynicom (#2)
"under a conservative Republican administration—effectively nationalized the banking and mortgage industries."
#4. To: Rotara (#0)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#5. To: X-15 (#4)
Sean Hannity needs to be nailed to a cross and tossed into a sewage canal for his role as the bearer of Dubya's water bucket, he has NO room to speak after his shrill defense of the last eight years.
#6. To: X-15 (#4)
#7. To: All (#0)
COVER STORY: BUSINESSWe Are All Socialists Now
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#8. To: X-15 (#4)
Sean Hannity needs to be nailed to a cross and tossed into a sewage canal for his role as the bearer of Dubya's water bucket, he has NO room to speak after his shrill defense of the last eight years.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#9. To: Rotara (#7)
If this 'tard calls the Jorge Administration "Conservative" one more time I'm going to scream.
#10. To: Cynicom (#2)
This part has no relevance as the "parties" are the government and the government is the "parties".
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#11. To: scrapper2 (#9)
If this 'tard calls the Jorge Administration "Conservative" one more time I'm going to scream.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#12. To: wbales (#1)
History from a mere three months ago is already being rewritten and the mediazioprops, Hannity and Limbaugh, are leading the charge.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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