Wow, I always knew people in the US were undereducated but I never knew they were this undereducated. We do NOT LIVE IN A TRUE DEMOCRACY! We live in a plutocratic oligarchy (rich corporate special interests) where the rich (via their corporations) control EVERYTHING. If you don't believe that then you don't understand what really runs the US government. I will be very surprised if Obama accomplishes much of anything let alone in the way of socialism but I say better then letting a few people get super rich by manipulating and using others because they bought the people who make the rules. The rules are so convoluted and ever-changing so that only those who can afford specialists to navigate or change them can play the game. Time to level the playing field IMHO. Even a non profit has a million hoops to jump through and all they want to do is make society a better place. :wtf:

I'm not a fan of socialism or capitalism but especially not socialized capitalism (bailouts). But the rich love socialism as long as it benefits them in some way or another. Socialism is ok as long as the money goes in their pockets and not ours. They (the rich) seem to think that they know how to make society better then the rest of us do, (hence the reason Warren Buffet gave Bill Gates almost all of his money) especially if they can profit from it in some way. The people still have masters, slavery never ended it just expanded to include all minorities (women, egalitarian white men, black, hispanic, asian, etc.) I used to want to be rich. But, now I see them for what they are slave masters that think they're better and smarter than everyone else because they have money. I don't want money. I'm not stupid or lazy, I just choose to be poor. Money and stuff get in the way of what's really important, people. It's ignorance and arrogance that are destroying our country. Ignorance of the abused and arrogance of the abusers.

To not want an egalitarian society is a shameful thing because it just shows that 1) you have no idea how a society truly works and 2)you feel so inferior to others that the only way you can value yourself if with external means (money and stuff). If you don't want to help your fellow countryman go live on a private island. You shouldn't be part of or benefit from society in any way anyway. When I see someone write that they don't want to pay for some lazy asshole I see someone who is selfish and doesn't want a better life for anyone but themselves. In my opinion people who don't want to better society shouldn't be part of it, period. By helping that lazy asshole find purpose and strength you are helping yourself not have to pay for them. But people just don't get it. Unless they see something in it for them directly they just won't do anything about it. Well we'll see what happens when the depression comes to the entire world this time. Like it or not we are all in this together. We all need to work together or destroy each other. We'll see which way it goes. Either way I'm sure this rock (that we're all together) hurdling through time and space that we call Earth will never be the same.:smokin: Just my :twocents:

Blessed be~