Hmmmm Socialism....

[Freeper]

walldude  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Aug-21-09 12:52 AM
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Hmmmm Socialism....
   
Correct me if I'm wrong about this.

Bill Clinton raised taxes 4% on the top two percent of Americans for his two terms. Because of that tax increase he ended his term with a budget surplus.

Now less than a year into Bush's first term he decides that he's going to use that money to buy the favor of the American people, hence every tax payer in America received a "rebate"(Or whatever you want to call it) check.

Starting to see the picture here? Taxed the rich and redistributed the money to the poor.

Next time some asshole yells about socialism ask them if they took part in Bush's wealth redistribution program.

"Did you cash the check Bush sent you?" "Yes." Congratulations you're a ****ing socialist.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6359943

Yeah having our own money returned to us was socialism. 
So if we cash our refund checks I guess that is socialism too. 

SPedigrees  (290 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Aug-21-09 01:14 AM
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2. I knew Clinton created a surplus and that Bush promptly squandered it and ran up a record deficit.
   
But I didn't know that Clinton accomplished this by taxing the rich. It doesn't surprise me, but I didn't know it. He started out with a hefty debt load left by Bush Sr.

Yes he did a retroactive tax on the rich as a matter of fact.

Q3JR4  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Aug-21-09 05:24 AM
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4. I like our socialist programs.
   
Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 05:25 AM by Q3JR4
I like being able to go to a library and check a book out without paying up front. I like being able to call the police when I have trouble with the neighbors without paying up front. I like being able to call the fire department when my home catches on fire. I like being able to cheaply send a letter through the mail.

You join the military and the government pays for your food, your clothes, your housing, your health insurance. I don't much like the U.S. military, but that is arguably the most socialist of institutions.

Q3JR4.
If supporting single payer makes me a socialist, then I'm a socialist.

Yes you are a socialist. And wait a second I thought you all hated police at the DUmp why are you saying you like them now?
And there is the military is socialism bullshit again.

[Carl]

SPedigrees  (290 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Aug-21-09 01:14 AM
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2. I knew Clinton created a surplus and that Bush promptly squandered it and ran up a record deficit.
   
But I didn't know that Clinton accomplished this by taxing the rich. It doesn't surprise me, but I didn't know it. He started out with a hefty debt load left by Bush Sr.

Uhmmm,conveniently forgetting a Republican Congress reigning in on some spending and the tech bubble.

[franksolich]

Uhmmm,conveniently forgetting a Republican Congress reining in on some spending and the tech bubble.

I wasn't around, but didn't "recovery" start, like, after November 1994?

One wonders what happened in November 1994, to cause that.

[Chump]

Yes you are a socialist. And wait a second I thought you all hated police at the DUmp why are you saying you like them now?
And there is the military is socialism bullshit again.

From the group that accuses the right of not even knowing what socialism actually is, they sure do show a striking lack of knowledge about what socialism actually is...

[Freeper]

From the group that accuses the right of not even knowing what socialism actually is, they sure do show a striking lack of knowledge about what socialism actually is...

or fascism they said * was a fascist meanwhile Obama is practicing fascism. 

[GOBUCKS]

The 1998-2000 federal budget surplus was due entirely to the stock market runup accompanying the tech bubble.

Slick Willie had nothing to do with it, although his vice president did.

Had Algore not invented the internets, the tech bubble would not have developed.

[Freeper]

The 1998-2000 federal budget surplus was due entirely to the stock market runup accompanying the tech bubble.

Slick Willie had nothing to do with it, although his vice president did.

Had Algore not invented the internets, the tech bubble would not have developed.