I generally stay out of politics, BUT I feel like posting here. To those who feel socialism has not worked nor will work, here is just some information. First off, the U.S. is socialist, but only for the rich. Whether you want to argue that, go ahead, there is enough evidence out there to prove this. When a bank itself becomes bankrupt, but has ties or deep roots with paying the government, our lovely gov will supply them with the money (a huge reason to our debt is because of this.) But a average working citizen, who pays his taxes, but goes bankrupt, and yet wont see a dime. I thought this nation was "For the people, by the people." What the banks and our government has done should be considered illegal, but that will never happen, and that money will never be out of the hands of the one percent. NOW, onto something more interesting. PEOPLE here say, the U.S. would collapse, because socialism would destroy our economy. BUT if you read up on your history, you would see that the 1950's passed many socialist bills. That decade has been considered the happiest time in America, and the economy boosted. Yes, WWII, and as we all no, wars bring money, especially to the U.S. But have you ever heard of the G. I. Bill, the one that let every soldier practically go college, get a house, and etc. That was a massive form of socialism, and by allowing large solider population from WWII to get educated, and have proper STANDARD of living, boosted the economy because it created jobs. The reforms in the sixties and Vietnam war took a lot of this away. But the reason why people didn't call it "socialism" even though it technically was, was because everyone at that time was scared of the big RED commies. (Let me just tell you, all so called communist nations are';t and have never been a communist nation. The first give away is communism doesn't involve a government. I will the rest up to you to read about.) Did you know that our MILITARY is just an example of socialism. WE are the most prepared military in the world, because all our taxes that don't happen to land in lobbyists, or banks, or oil rich nations hands, end up in supplying the military. Now before I get into that, maybe if we hadn't gone crazy with spending our debt money weapons, we would be in a better situation. Have any of you guys thought that the money that we are spending on military, we could just spend in on helping our communities instead of subjugating countries all over the world. To those who think that everything is good cause we don't have socialism, you would be glad to know that you would never have had an education if not for the form of socialism in public education.
I could rant on and on, but I have tedonitus in my arms and wrists, so I will go onto a shorter subject.
Out of all candidates of all groups, I have to be honest, this is one of the worst elections ever. I am for the Bern, but his foreign policy is weak. Hillary is devil, and serves the wealth, caused whole lot in Libya, and is in general cray cray. She is the definition of a politician, changing her views all the time. She's liar Just watch a bunch different interviews from her entire career. Ten years ago, she didn't support gays, now she does.
To the republicans. They arent even republicans anymore. All these candidates are mutants of the tea party/ FOX has created. Bush Sr. said on the topic of illegal's children's education, that "Its a controversial topic, but shouldn't be a burden for the children on the actions taken by the parents, and that they have the right to an education as all humans do." That not a word for word quote, but it makes G.W. Bush's dad look like a moderate. Than theirs all those religious guys, who want to pretty much destroy women rights, and there is TRUMP. Wow.
Trump supporters truly prove the nations average IQ is below 90. I knew a guy, a good friend, who told me Trump is great because he is man who became successful and he can guide us to success. First off, *&!#%$*!&#%$*&#^%!!!!!!! He filed for bankruptcy more than once and basically got his money back from the government (looks like Trumps a supporter of socialism.) He is most definetly a racist, with illegals working in his hotels. He is contradictory. He post pictures of fake statistics on Black Murderers through twitter that he found from White supremacy sites. Also, why would anyone want a politician who wont check the facts first. We have already gone through Iraq once. Than the whole muslim thing. I am international student myself, living in many Muslim countries, and never have I been threatened. I honestly feel more endangered in the U.S. but thats also the US medias fear factor. To think he will help all the welfare based republicans is a sad story. He is tied with the money makers, and sure maybe perhaps the US will make some money, but you will never ever see it.
Thats some of my views. I don't get on the forum much, or even the server, so if you want to reply, I am probably not going see it.
#Ralph Nader