Why is the U.S. becoming a socialist run economy?

Answer 1

Social service the USA provides from its tax payers is:

* Law enforcement - protecting bussiness and individuals by creating prisons, courts, and police officers.
* Military protection - Securing safty for corporations and individuals within and outside of the USA.
* Transportation: Roads, Airport services, train services.

*Social Security - Then FRD ... he created "Social Security".
Suddenly, the USA citizens need to pay taxes to help those retiring. This snowballed from here to disability ... snowballing to pay children of the retired and disabled.
* Welfare
* Unemployment services
* Save the endangered species like the Iowa Pleistocene Snail
* 911 Emergency Services
* Public education
* Farm subsadising
(Who knows what else the govt is doing ... but it's a lot)

It goes on and on and on ... we've got so much to pay as a society ... it's exhausting just check out the federal government job page, and you'll see how many people are employed by the Federal Government ... and each state also employees tons of people ... each government department we're paying for.

People wonder why the young don't get into voting? Well, there's just too much to get worked up over ... our grandparents and parents have created this monstrous government, and it's out of control!!!

Answer 2

Welfare programs are not too indicitive of a socialist system. Under socialism, government owns the means of production and distribution. This is the phenomenon that we should all be worried about in USA. Recently, Louisiana purchased a track of land for 5-6,000,000 and plan on developing it for an auto manufacturer to locate to the northern part of the state. In a free market economy, the auto manufacturer would buy the land themselves and develop it themselves and pass the costs on to their customers, and their customers alone. Also, "economic development agencies" around the country are giving out tax dollars to specific private enterprises to help them grow. I believe that if a company's own business methods are not enough to merit their getting a loan, then they should not grow. Because the number of grants is limited, this creates am elitist bureaucracy which gets to pick and choose which businesses are worthy of the grants. If you read the criteria for receiving one of these grants, you will noitice that you must be a sizeable business. This, in effect, is plutocratic socialism, whereby wealth is transferred not to the poor, but to the wealthy.

Answer 3

It started back in the 1960s. Wait no, it started back in the 1930s...Whatever.

It's the attitude of thought that "someone ought to do something!" when they see some injustice or social ill or someone in need.

Well, that's a great sentiment, but the 'someone' that gets tasked with doing the 'something' is often a government agency, and that's not just a bad thing, it's downright EVIL.

Governent agencies have the ugly trait of turning themselves and what they do into the focus for their existence, not the people or problems they were designed to serve.

Social programs like government subsidized housing, welfare, food stamps, preferred business set-asides, preferred education grants, etc. all start out with great expectations and lofty goals, but all wind up helping some who could use a "helping hand" while creating a dependent, parasitical class of others.

Just look at the residents of many of our large cities, the so-called "Urban" dwellers. Some kids grow up and get themselves out of the ghetto to become active and contributing members of our society while other are content to live their entire lives in federal housing projects, on welfare and sitting in chairs at the free clinic. These parasites have become a political factor in our "Nanny Government" and many politicians count on their votes that they buy with political pandering and rhetoric. And the problem just grows.

Many young people today see the government and society as owing them something. There is no shame to be on food stamps. There is no effort to gwet out of the ghetto, in fact, our suburban kids have seen the ghetto life glorified so much on VH1 that they all want to move to the hood, deal drugs and sign up for welfare!

The fact is, ALL government is evil. Some is necessary and it needs to be limited by the people. Left to itself, government will take over everything and really screw things up.

Answer 4

As one of the previous posters said, both real and perceived injustices exist, and someone believes that government must "DO SOMETHING." I won't go quite so far as to say that government is evil, but it does need to be kept in check. As each new government program is created, it is created in perpetuity! Government programs just never die! Once a new social program comes into existence, that's the case pretty much forever! And then someone comes along and advocates for something more to be added. And the vicious cycle continues.

Answer 5

Some people have remarked, "Under socialism, government owns the means of production and distribution" or similar remarks.

This is technically only one form of socialism, most commonly known as state socialism or bolshevism. There are other forms of socialism, such as anarcho-syndicalism, in which the government does NOT own the means of production and distribution. Rather these are organized collectively outside the government.

Answer 6

It's not. Do we have free health care? Do we have free higher education? I don't think so. It's not the government that owns everything, it's the mega-conglomerate corporations like Time-Warner that own everything. How can you have socialism without government ownership?

Answer 7

Laissez-faire capitalism died during the Great Depression.