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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bill Maher Drops A Reality Bomb On Republicans: American middle-class was created though socialism [View all]
Bill Maher Drops A Reality Bomb On Republicans Who Pretend To Care About The Middle Class
By: Jason Easleymore from Jason Easley
Saturday, January, 31st, 2015, 11:24 am
Republicans are pretending to care while they go back to servicing eight rich d***heads who own coal mines, and no one is telling the truth, which is that the large thriving middle-class that America used to have didnt just appear out of the blue.
It was created using an economic tool called socialism.
Oh, I know when never use that word here in buzzword nation, but that is exactly what our government did after World War II. It taxed the rich up to ninety percent and massively redistributed that money through the GI Bill so that more than half the population benefitted from free college, free job training, cheap mortgages, and much much more. Yes, for a brief shining moment, we were Finland. Now we can debate whether that is a good thing or bad thing to go back to, but what is beyond debate is that is what happened. The Fifties and Sixties are the era of socialism in America.
Heres the reality. A middle-class is actually not the byproduct of capitalism. Ask any historian, a middle-class is actually a fluke in history.
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Bill Maher Drops A Reality Bomb On Republicans: American middle-class was created though socialism [View all]
kpete
Jan 2015
OP
Talking to a friend that works for a medical insurance company. Just where did your job come from?
brewens
Jan 2015
#2
Any kind of size-able middle class is impossible without government intervention
stevenleser
Jan 2015
#3
I am an upper-case 'D' Democrat, but I'm really a lower-case 'd' democratic socialist.
ColesCountyDem
Jan 2015
#9
socialism = socialized means of production and socialized distribution of benefits/wealth. so
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#28
sorry, they *are* socialist; the cost and benefit is socialized. the opposite would be privately
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#35
if the government was paying for free entertainment for the masses -- yeah, it was at least
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#41
The main reason was the existence of the soviet bloc and communism as the "threat of a
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#29
no; the decline *started* before the collapse, but not "way before". There were rebellions
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#39
Good on Bill. Joaquin Casto was great. Dems. should put him in a cabinet position or VP asap.
appalachiablue
Jan 2015
#23
I suspect Julian Castro will be the Dem VP nominee in 2016, or in 2020 at the latest. nt
tblue37
Jan 2015
#38
Don't think he's had Warren on the show; he should. Naomi Klein was on last fall, Bernie too.
appalachiablue
Jan 2015
#46
Confession: We bought our house with the GI Bill. Couldn't have done it without
JDPriestly
Jan 2015
#49
We do have Socialsm in this country, it's called Privatize the profits - Socialize the losses
Dont call me Shirley
Jan 2015
#55
Oh is that he says? What does Rush Limbaugh think? And how about Mitt Romney?
closeupready
Jan 2015
#63