From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

Just out of curiosity, why do you think that you're already "too far
down the socialism path"? In what ways are you too far, and why is
socialism such a bad thing? I'm not talking about extremes and theory, but
the level that it exists in the US today.

You probably already know it, but where I live we tend te bo quite proud of
the "socialism" we have, and I think that in comparison to the
states we're pretty dang deep into it, yet I don't see it as a bad thing.
So I'm curious about why it's such a red flag to many Americans.


Antti Kurenniemi

"Mark"  wrote in message
news:41bd0efa$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> "My point is not that Canada is without sin on these points (except for
> sports stadiums - we generally don't do that) it's just that you tend to
> notice someone else's "transgressions" more easily than your
own."
>
> That could be true, that I notice more, but I wish that it were not so
> (that I would notice Canada more), because I do think that we've already
> gone too far down the socialism path and I remain hopeful (but not quite
> optimistic) that Bush can move us away from that in his second term.
>
> In the short-term, nipping the government controlled healthcare, that so
> many clamor for, in the bud, is most important, but in the larger, longer
> term view, Social Security reform is just as important.
>
> I don't like the sports stadium collusion either (especially and most
> egregiously, when they take people's homes away from them for the "greater
> good" of a new stadium). Indeed if the fans had any balls/brains at all,
> they'd say thanks, but no thanks, we're not interested in paying huge
> bucks to watch steroid ingesting fools earn 100s of millions of dollars to
> hit fake leather balls over an ad-laden fence.
>

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