…that during the last eight years of a Republican president,  the U.S. has come to resemble an increasingly socialist-like state.  From time to time, I hear someone accuse Obama of wanting to turn the U.S. into a socialized state due to his proposal for nationalized health care.   This article sums up recent events better than I could. In the end, wouldn’t it be better to actually get something useful from our government if it’s going to be nationalizing key industries with our tax dollars?

The entire situation is upsetting.  Free-market capitalism has been the supposed bedrock of American values and independence.  Yet all it’s earned us as U.S. citizens is a projected $4000 per person to go towards nationalizing wall street and the banking industries.  Yet, because we are scared of admitting to ourselves that perhaps the “American Way” hasn’t put us ahead of anyone else in the end (if you need proof look up recent exchange rates for the U.S. dollar) we will continue to shout for less regulation and smaller government only to have our government swell and take more and more from us while returning very little that is actually useful to our daily lives.

Here’s something to think about, can you argue with this statement?:
“The average American is working two and half jobs, gets two weeks off, and has all the employment security of a one-armed trapeze artist. The Bush Administration has preached the “ownership society” to America: own your house, own your retirement account; you don’t need the government in your way. So Americans mortgaged themselves to the hilt to buy overpriced houses they can no longer afford and signed up for 401k programs that put money where, exactly? In the stock market! Where rich Republicans fleeced them.”

-BILL SAPORITO Time magazine/CNN.com