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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Sep 21, 2008, at 6:07 PM, bob ford wrote:

> The U.S. is no longer inching toward Socialism.  We are in a head- 
> first dive.  Neither candidate has been brave enough to bring up  
> this , most important. fact.
> Our personal freedoms and individual liberties are on the line .   
> This is the most afraid I have been for this country in my life.   
> And, that fear has nothing to do with any trivialities, like those  
> "exposed" on Snopes........................bobford

I'm still trying to get a handle on this socialism aspect of the  
presidential campaign of 2008.

One of the important conditions I am thinking about is that many  
European countries have superior stats on various quality-of-life  
factors. Canada, of course, has a superior health care system,  
regardless of the BS fed the media by certain political minions. My  
stepson and his wife and grandsons live in the Toronto area. I get  
facts, not BS. They tell me, yes, their taxes are higher than ours but  
they do not want our inferior health care system. Lots of Americans  
going up there. Lots of Americans going to India for operations. We  
can do better.

I am thinking that we have been brain washed to believe that socialism  
is bad because it is perceived by conservatives to be bad for big  
business. I think big business is overlooking a good thing. Bill Gates  
is the author of a big article in a recent Time Magazine about how  
business can do better if it adopts a social care agenda, that it is  
in fact a win-win deal.