OK I will let the Barrack Hussein Obama slide on past if the rest of you troglodytes
will own up to WILLARD ! You remember, your Vulture Capitalist “Bain boy” (your
bane) WILLARD MITT ROMNEY ?  Sling the “Hussein” if you wish, but I counter with
the KING of VULTURE CAPITALISM WILLARD ROMNEY !

So your Super Pacs are buying WILLARD a seat at your table !  Of COURSE, that
means you own him my republican friends ! WILLARD THE VULTURE !  Ha Ha HA
HA , boy are you in bed with the proper spokesperson !  Yes I love it !  I am a
progressive who will not throw the baby out with the bathwater to save some
ideological bullcrap that some of you have scribbled on your bibs !  See you in
November ! Take your green message , scribble it on your bibs and swallow your
green pablum ! Oh and have a nice day !

IGNOMINY

pd: Yes, the socialism of Europe is a terror that the 1%‘ers cannot live with.

Well put - it is anathema to them.

The key part of the word socialism is “social”, which is a collective concept. The OnePercenters cannot think beyond themselves, so hooked are they on individual achievement.

Therein lies the context-span. That is, on the Left, collectivism (by which what betters all betters the each and every individual) and on the Right, Individualism (by which what betters the individual is best for all).

And all the wrong-minded nonsense that has since been written about both. How’s that?

Individualism is common to all human nature. However, long ago, before mankind was a primate, we learned to herd together out of both economic and self-protection. We still do, not because there’s so little room left on this spaceship of ours. But because it suits human nature to live within a “social” context together - and thus benefit from a free-enterprise market and a system of law that keeps civil order.

Meaning that we all share a common societal destiny - therefore what is better for all of us, is best for each one of us. Whether that notion be exemplified by National Security or a National Health Service.

BUT

Thirty-years ago, a benighted actor, far too influenced by Ayn Rand, came to power and changed our sense of collectivity. He moaned and groaned that the government, far from solving our problems, WAS the problem. (Profiting from the much ballyhooed failure of the Great Society that had been only smoke and mirrors.)

He then “starved the beast” by reducing taxation levels, particularly on high-incomes - the constituency that paid most for his election. Later, two horrendous wars over in the Middle East sand-box (produced by the same people) has brought Uncle Sam to his knees.

Tax revenues were so low we had already begun sucking the debt-teat of High Finance to find the funds necessary. 

The economy generated enormous wealth, but most trickled upwards, abracadabra, to the top - and we, the middle-class sheeple, kept paying and paying and paying taxes for senseless wars and an extravagant DoD with which to fight them.

All the foregone tax revenues could have been better spent elsewhere. Had we used that money for some Social Services, like a universal and low-cost National Healthcare, we’d be better off today (at least health-wise).

Are we going to let that ignominy continue? Seems so, sheeple that we are ...

Azcat: One established SS and the other started the FED.

SS is a major societal advancement of mankind, before which the economic jungle was even thicker than it is today.

The FED, or any Central Bank, is better than having self-supervision of the banking system by the banksters. The FED needs better management, for sure, but it need not be abolished.

What it needs is a more aggressive Attorney General to do its dirty-work. (Spare the rod and spoil the child.)

Which planet do you live on? Whichever, take you meds.

I lived and worked in Europe for twenty
years. I still do the occasional freelance
job for German radio, write for German
publishers and very frequently travel
there for book premieres, etc.

Folks I´ve worked with and friends I made
there forty years ago frequently ask me
when I plan to return. Often, they are at
a loss to understand why I prefer living
in the United States. They know that life
here is far less secure than it would be
in Germany for me. But they also
understand (or at least pretend to) that
security cannot be everything, that there
are personal preferences that factor into
decisions.

However, the assumption that Europeans
generally would love to live in the U.S.
has been wrong for at least a generation.
Which Mr. Romney must know. Moving toward
a more Europeanized society is not, at
least not for the average educated and
traveled American, a valid threat.

It seems as if not too long ago, there was some Republican Talk of a New World
Order…...An order, conservatives imagined that would inevitably be
headed up by Conservative Republicans.

There was also talk about a North American Union, of Canada,  The USA, and
Mexico, joined together, economically and patterned after the European Union.

During that particular incarnation of Corporate Republican ideology, The European
Union was a shining example of what we could be if we embraced globalization…

However something went wrong, terribly wrong, with this ideology, because, as
many had suspected from the onset,  it was based on greed rather than reason.

Now that The European Union, is in question, it’s interesting how the Republican
Party, can, at least in public, threaten us with the idea of their own country
becoming another Europe, at least in terms of socialism.

Yes, the socialism of Europe is a terror that the 1% ‘ers cannot live with. One that
keeps them awake at night, and motivates them to count their money incessantly
at all hours. But it may not be a threat to millions of others who don’t share the
corporate view.

You will recall that once Socialism had a foothold in this country, but was defused
by the New Deal reforms, and programs, that were put into place by FDR. You
know the safety net that the Republican party has almost succeeded in destroying.

For millions of American’s the idea that this country could adopt an American
version of European socialism is no threat at all. Mitt Romney’s views, do little
more than give testimony to his class. That he is a born and bred 1%‘er. 

If Romney’s failed conservative economic policy’s are ever put into place, it is likely
that American Socialism could revive as a political force. In an America, that would
look like Bain Capital, on a much larger scale. 

I am no fan of Obama, but that being said. The economic crisis were are living in
is a result of conservative economic policy’s starting with Reagan. To continue
those policies in the face of reality is madness. In Mitt Romney, the Tea Party may
have just found it’s Mad Hatter.

So if and when, Europe collapses economically, there will be dire economic
consequences here in this country. Expect conservatives like Romney to blame
those consequences on Europe, and refuse to take responsibility for what their
New World Order has wrought, by design, not by accident.

“Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were all happy to learn from
Europe. Were they un-American? ”

Are you delusional?  You reference two of the Presidents directly responsible for
the mess we are in today.  One established SS and the other started the FED. 
Lumping Teddy in there is a disservice to Teddy.

No President that codifies into law indefinite detention for Americans ( or any for that matter) is American as far as I’m concerned. To Hades with Mr. Obama.

No President that codifies into law indefinite detention for Americans is American as far as I’m concerned. To Hades with Mr. Obama.

HVdB: I don’t care where Obama is from; the fact is that he works for the same interests as Romney.

Shilling for the Replicants, are we? How original ...

How about a cogent argument supporting your accusation, instead of frothing at the mouth?

I’ve come to the conclusion that the ‘right’ is
completely void of common sense.  In their drive to
turn the government over to the mega-wealthy (by
putting influence in government on the auction block,
the highest bidders winning) has it ever occurred to
them that the highest bidders might be liberals?

no black had been american for over 200 years and we may not have a single black
american even today. how about some day??

ROMNEY THE NUMBERS GUY

Obama, Romney said, “wants to turn America into a European-style entitlement society” and “takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe” as opposed to “the cities and small towns of America.”

One of the photos in the Economist article on Romney was of him in Spain where he was sent proselytizing on behalf of the Mormon church.

Very pious of him, but he obviously learned nothing about Europe - as indicated in the nonsense of the above quote.

Romney is a “numbers man”, given his financial success? So here are some numbers for him to ponder:
* Quality of Life (as part of the UN’s Human Development Index), adjusted for inequality - the US is 23rd out of 134 (see here.)
* Human Poverty Index (HPI) – the US is 17th out of 19 countries, meaning amongst the worse (see here.) Note also on that listing the survivability and literacy results, about which the US has nothing to be proud about.
* Health Care - The World Health Organization (WHO), in 2000, ranked the U.S. health care system as the highest in cost, first in responsiveness, 37th in overall performance, and 72nd by overall level of health (among 191 member nations included in the study)
* Income Inequality – As measured by the Gini Coefficient (after taxes and transfers), the US is 4th from the last in ranking, that is, with the highest Gini Index, which means high Income Inequality. (See here.) 

Of course, the above is factual evidence, derived by proven research methods, of the sorry state of America. Which particularly the rich would prefer to avoid discussing.

And yet, if the quality of national well-being is not at least “indicated” by such factual evidence - but perhaps not proven - then we are blind to the evidence.

And so is this rich-guy called Romney.

NB

Well-being is indeed a subjective appreciation. Looking at research into the matter, one realizes how controversial any measurement of well-being can be. Even the researchers cannot agree on a yardstick or even a set of yardsticks.

CAVEAT

Believe me, by the above, I get no thrill dumping on the Uncle Sam. My intent, however, is to underscore the urgency of reform in America - and that’s across the board in many different areas.

Why give this idea any space at all—it’s so patently silly!