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This system is technically a capitalist one since the means of production are still privately owned. In the United States, however, we often refer to this as “socialism" anyway. This is why Scandinavian economists and officials keep correcting us when we call their counties socialist.Semantics. He still wants to tax us to the hilt and feed the federal government so that they can decide how best to spend our money. Call that whatever you want, but I fucking hate it and it's slavery. What happened to individual rights and freedom?
Social democracy is a system that leaves the means of production in private hands but assures that regulations, some public control of the economy, and extensive entitlements exist to keep everybody at a decent standard of living. This is often identified with the Nordic model, but most western democracies have had social democratic governments at some point in the last century.
These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now?"
But this is scary. When the next crash comes, capitalism/repubs will be blamed.
Now if she would only point out how the Saudis also use their money the same way.
Turns out the only people commiting voter fraud last Blue Wave was the GOP
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