I think one of the points the anti-socialists don't see in this thread is that in a more socialistic America, you guys would have more. Some of the millions that lil Wayne spent on getting diamonds in his teeth, Bill Gates spent on some mansion or hundreds of other rich people spent on their palaces would go to your health care, your kids education, your roads, your pensions and so on.
The idea is if USA was a more socialist democracy, you wouldn't suffer because the system would more than anything take from the top where there's an excess and feed more into the bottom where people don't have enough. Lil Wayne, Paris Hilton and Martha Stewart might get a little worried, but frankly they don't need all their billions to do just fine. They could still run businesses and create jobs for people and so on without the extreme excess. The little socialism would take from you guys, you would get back and since you also get something from all those at the top, it's a net bonus to the middle and lower classes.
Of course for that to happen, something would probably have to change in the american mindset. Right now it sounds like some of you would rather have less today and have the opportunity to become as rich as Oprah than having much more now traded for the mere opportunity of becoming filthy rich instead of Oprah rich.
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