American laziness promotes socialist government, page 1

We work the most hours out of all other "1st World" countries

We get the least paid time off

We pay the most for our medical coverage

Our literacy & education rates as a ratio of our wealth has us being surpassed by all other first world countries

And in a related piece, we have a higher ratio of our citizen in the prison system than any other first world country.

People have to get away from imposing political hysterics to the naming of goverment management models. They also have to realize that every successful government is an amalgam of mmultiple models - the only absolutes exist in theory.

DontTread: You can't afford to pay anymore to "the government" because of the crony capitalism policies of Republican government. Those massive tax cuts, those massive rebates to corporations, that massive 'socialist' intervetion of the government to keep poorly run industry afloat with subsidies, the allowing of foreign registry to avoid billions of taxes.....all of these things have shifted the burden to the middle & low classes. It's been in the form of increased property tax, increased school tax, increased sales tax and every single taxation or fee that the state government can charge because the Federal government has siphoned off funds the states would otherwise receive.....to pay for their Crony Capitalistic policies. The Fed can run a deficit and increase the debt ceiling, as the Bush government has done every year to all time muti trillion dollar levels. States are pay as you go - they can't do anything on a deficit.

TrueLies: let's take your premise of Socialized Medicine and look at it in the proper context: It's another form of Crony Capitalism that grew out of control from 1980 to 1992, had some pings against it until the Congress was under Republican control from 1993 to 2000, and has gone back to being hog wild.
Prescrition drug prices going up 60% to 75%, premiums going up so that a family of four would pay just about $1000 a month. And during all this, legislation after legislation allowing companies to cut to the bone the amounts of contributions to employee benefits.
That's why we have 50 million American with out Health Insurance. The fastest growing segment? Households making over $50K per year.
I'm an Independent, but on this issue, Democrats have been the only ones making any sense - Daycare program give families more time to work & earn. Universal Health care takes a huge financial burden off of working families. Better education & free education enables a world leading workforce. All of those things put billions of dollars of consumer spending into the American economy and can be paid for in extremely easy fashion - cut military spending by 5% ( weapons systems, crony contracts, Halliburton outsourcing), and require companies who make trillions here to pay their taxes.

No flames at you, but this "conservative" who wrote this article, that's studying political science is likely the same as our ATS staunch conservatives: some 20 year old putz who can't wipe his own azz without asking his parents for money, and enjoying his academic career off of their labor instead of working several jobs or the GI Bill, yet , has great 'insights' and 'life experience' to speak on the countries state of affairs.....after watching Fox News and listing to Sean Hannity.