Why do conservative Americans throw the word "socialist" around like it's a swear word?

"I can bet that none of these doomsdayers have never even been to Canada for health care."

That may be so. All my information I get about the Canadian healthcare system comes from Canadians down here in the US getting their health care, because there are more MRIs in Pittsburgh than in the whole fo Canada, and they'd rather not wait (according to them) three months to find out whether or not they have cancer.

"Socialist" is just a short word for "has loads of compassion, but poor math and economics skills."

Canada's system survives because their Ebil capitalist neighbor to the south buys 70% of everything they produce, thereby continually injecting money into their economy.

If you haven't already heard of McCarthyism, look into that ... it mostly stems from that. The Republican Party embraces McCarthy style tactics, they push propaganda, fear-mongering, etc. They play at people's emotions. They throw around words like "IMMIGRANT" ... "TERRORIST" ... "SOCIALIST" ... "COMMUNIST" ... to make the mindless sheeple afraid. It's basically just dirty politics. The fact that they call Obama a socialist is laughable. While he may support many policies that will benefit many Americans, he is still no socialist. I'd know since I identify as socialist and actually know what socialism is.

They often try to make it sound like America is a "pure capitalist" country but that's so far from the truth. The U.S. has a mixed-economy, with government regulation on many industries for the benefit of everyone. Some regulation is always necessary. We have many socialist policies and programs such as public education, social security, Medicare, Medicaid, the interstate system, etc. The only real major socialist program we don't have that nearly every country does have is universal health care. Republicans have been trying to protect the profits of the health care insurance industry, so naturally they oppose any sort of program that would be independent of the private system that they favor as Republicans, but also many Democrats as well, get big support from Corporate America.

As for health care in Canada, well I hope no American has gone to Canada for health care, it isn't even allowed. You have to be a Canadian citizen to get access to their health care system. You have to get a health card and be a tax paying citizen.

They're idiots, plain and simple.

Um...Socialism isn't what this country is about.

If you want to live in a socialist nation, please feel free to move to one.

The US is a capitalist country that has been raped by the Socialist, Progressive-Agenda.

Socialism doesn't work in SMALL nations... Nations the size of one of our states... And you actually expect it to work on the Scale of the United States, with our population?

You must be high...

Socialism isn't the answer... Tort reform and KEEPING GOVERNMENT OUT OF PRIVATE BUSINESS is what works.

DO YOUR HOMEWORK... To help, here are some sources:

The Housing Bubble? Caused by big-bad-evil GW Bush? No... You are drinking the kool-aid...

► Community Reinvestment Act

Economic Reality always follows Economic Policy by 8-12 years. What we're seeing now is the failure of the Subprime Mortgage Market (AKA Subprime Mortgage Crisis), which was a direct result of the Community Reinvestment Act of 1995 (CRA1995) that was signed into law by President Bill Clinton.

CRA1995 forced banks to use a point based system to determine the eligibility of applicants for home loans, with the three biggest points values coming from their area of residence, their race, and their income.

The Community Reinvestment Act (or CRA, Pub.L. 95-128, title VIII, 91 Stat. 1147, 12 U.S.C. § 2901 et seq.) is a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.[1][2][3] The Act was intended to reduce discriminatory credit practices against such neighborhoods, a practice known as redlining.[4] The Act requires the appropriate federal financial supervisory agencies to encourage regulated financial institutions to meet the credit needs of the local communities in which they are chartered, consistent with safe and sound operation. (See full text of Act and current regulations.[1]) To enforce the statute, federal regulatory agencies examine banking institutions for CRA compliance, and take this information into consideration when approving applications for new bank branches or for mergers or acquisitions.[5]

The credit crisis? Caused by big-bad-evil GW Bush? No... You are drinking the kool-aid...

► Credit Default Swaps

60 Minutes - Credit Default Swaps <- WATCH THIS VIDEO!!!

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4546583n

► The Bet That Blew Up Wall Street:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/26/60minute...

Steve Kroft On Credit Default Swaps And Their Central Role In The Unfolding Economic Crisis Oct. 26, 2008

► Aspen Times Weekly - The Redneck tree hugger

http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20100228/ASPENWE...

Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation - Gary Hubbell

Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America's future. He is the best thing ever.

Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America's resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace.

That's why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America.

Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored.

Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives, earning a paycheck, contributing to their favorite charities, going to high school football games on Friday night, spending their weekends at the beach or on hunting trips — they've gotten off the fence. They've woken up. There is a level of political activism in this country that we haven't seen since the American Revolution, and Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the American political and social consciousness.

Think of the crap we've slowly learned to tolerate over the past 50 years as liberalism sought to re-structure the America that was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all the people of the world. Immigration laws were ignored on the basis of compassion. Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing of families, and a cycle of generations of dependency. Debt was regarded as a tonic to lubricate the economy. Our children left school having been taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy. Legislators decided that people could not be trusted to defend their own homes, and stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms. Productive members of society have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order to support legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and “disabilities.” Criminals have been arrested and re-arrested, coddled and set free to pillage the citizenry yet again. Lawyers routinely extort fortunes from doctors, contractors and business people with dubious torts.

We slowly learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our heads in disbelief, and we went on with our lives.

But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of dissatisfaction and unrest.

In the time of Barack Obama, Black Panther members stand outside polling places in black commando uniforms, slapping truncheons into their palms. ACORN — a taxpayer-supported organization — is given a role in taking the census, even after its members were caught on tape offering advice to set up child prostitution rings. A former Communist is given a paid government position in the White House as an advisor to the president. Auto companies are taken over by the government, and the auto workers' union — whose contracts are completely insupportable in any economic sense — is rewarded with a stake in the company. Government bails out Wall Street investment bankers and insurance companies, who pay their executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public support. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public disapproval, Barack Obama has pushed forward with a health care plan that would re-structure one-sixth of the American economy.

I don't know about you, but the other day I was at the courthouse doing some business, and I stepped into the court clerk's office and changed my voter affiliation from “Independent” to “Republican.” I am under no illusion that the Republican party is perfect, but at least they're starting to awaken to the fact that we cannot sustain massive levels of debt; we cannot afford to hand out billions of dollars in corporate subsidies; we have to somehow trim our massive entitlement programs; we can no longer be the world's policeman and dole out billions in aid to countries whose citizens seek to harm us.

Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They're organizing, they're studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they're reading history and case law, they're showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew of conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there a revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a keen awareness that our priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured. Will it be a violent revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation of the original document that has guided us for 220 years — the Constitution. Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and liberalism, there will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A hundred years from now, history will perceive the year 2010 as the time when America got back on the right track. And for that, we can thank Barack Hussein Obama.

Gary Hubbell is a hunter, rancher, and former hunting and fly-fishing guide. Gary works as a Colorado ranch real estate broker. He can be reached through his website, aspenranchrealestate.com.