DEBATE: Tea Party v. Socialists

I hope you find this interesting because I was so happy to find it!
I get so frustrated when the debate about American policy degenerates
into name calling, accusing those on the center left of being socialist or communist.
Its particularly frustrating to someone my age who knows his way around the political spectrum
having wandered much of its span during my half century on this planet(this time around)
for example most people here who call themselves progressives
not only DON'T consider themselves socialist , AND ALSO really aren't
what a liberal progressive stands for is really social liberalism or social democracy
is so much different than what REAL doctrinaire marxist/socialists stand for
that someone should really point out that the accusations of democrats being SOCIALIST
are fairly inaccurate, and their needs to be a debate or discussion about what socialism really is
and how they differ from conservatives liberals and social liberals


this IS socialism


the dangers of idiots babbling about socialism and thank god when a rational man calls them out
tom hartman
socialists debate conservatives tea party continued

tea party response

wow this is a long debate... tea party vs socialists on the health care issue

socialists response on health care.. wow this is interesting its actually worth listening to

Stop The Socialism

Somebody in one of my groups sent this through, and I think it pretty much sums up the state of affairs in America today.

"Don't know the author, but the irony is in place..."

This morning I was awakened by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory. I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads built by the local, state, and federal departments of transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to send via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After work, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to a house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and fire marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables, thanks to the local police department.

I then log on to the internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right...

Michael