Great achievements in American socialism
A slide show of two dozen excellent things the federal government bought with your money.
Topics: U.S. Economy, News
View a slide show of the great achievements of American socialism.
Brave souls named Beck and Hannity and Limbaugh have raised the alarm: Socialism will soon be loosed upon the land. What is this “socialism” of which they — and Malkin, McCain and Morris — warn? Socialism is apparently what is created when a president you do not like spends money on things of which you do not approve.
Since the collapse of the economy and the election of Barack Obama, the American right has been engaged in a two-front ideological battle. Conservatives are fighting to prevent Democrats from spending America out of the current economic predicament, because it has long been a conservative article of faith that massive government investment in jobs and infrastructure does not work. But pressing that argument about the present also means looking backward, and trying to rewrite the history of the 1930s, when nearly everyone except conservative ideologues agrees that a huge Keynesian jolt to the economy did work.
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