Repubs - hate socialism? Then don't bother with any of these:

[Deja Q]

* roads
* medicare/medicaid
* buying ANYTHING from big corporations (they get lots of free money from the government)
* mailing ANYTHING via USPS
* using the internet (the GOVERNMENT developed it)
* Dating, marrying, conversing with, or anything else to do with another person in America: They pay into taxes that pay into all these things
* Watch television (government pays for the transmission lines, networks make the programs sponsored by corporations whose products and services YOU buy)
* ditto for radio (given how many commercials they throw in just to subsidize the DJ's multi-million wage for sitting there to bitch and gripe all morning about people being lazy... well, apart from whining what does he do...)
* put money in a bank
* take a loan from a bank
* anything to do with a bank
* go to a sports stadium, paid for by taxpayer dollars even though the players can be paid 7~9 digit salaries each (the owner must be making a lot more... yet he needs all our help so he can have his stadium... pity prices to watch the people run with a ball across the field haven't gone down...)

How long a list do people want? The fact is, without government, there would be NOTHING. Not even the corporations we, the taxpayers, bail out.

Here's a cure for obesity too: Pay people to run around with a ball. Corporations pay a select few, and half of them are vermin who otherwise think they're above the law to begin with, to run around with a ball. It's hardly "supply and demand" because supply could very well be 300 million people... plenty of supply to be sure...

[Faryn Balyncd]

1. police protection, including the socialized tasering of suspects (almost all tasering is socialized)

[Deja Q]

2. Some of them want privatized cops -- so let's discuss those ramifications:

1. Only "profitable areas" will get any coverage. And, trust me, most of the people wanting privatized cops don't live in the most profitable of areas...


Oh dear, short list this time...

[noiretextatique]

3. municipal water supplies, clean air regulations, vehicle safety standards

food and drug administration, air traffic safety.

[Captain Hilts]

4. Dismantle the military also. The US military is a fine socialist institution. nt

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

5. If they have paid taxes they have paid for those things.

[MercutioATC]

7. Agreed...but they seem to be singling health care out as "socialist"

while enjoying the benefits of many other "socialist" programs.

I can understand the argument (though I don't agree) that health care should not be administered (or paid for) by the government. However, it's silly to scream "socialism!" just on one issue.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

8. I agree.

[doc03]

6. I can add a few more

Social Security
Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation. (protests their pensions from other Republicans)
Go fishing, hunting, camping, hiking etc. (most lakes were built in the FDR era as public works projects) The EPA which Republicans hate was responsible for cleaning up the waters and saving forest land but the NRA opposes most Democrats.
OSHA
MSHA


The amazing thing is most of the Republicans opposed nearly every one of them.

[Deja Q]

11. Thank you all for responding...

I intended this post to be a wake-up call to really spell out reality.

[treestar]

9. They live in a fantasy

the nineteenth century west.

[Deja Q]

10. LOL, nice to see this thread losing a rec - thanks freeper! Go lick yourself.

:rofl: