Assignment #8 S Alt

The article "It's not about socialism, it's about rescuing capitalism" was written for the Washington Post by Harold Meyerson. Whenever you turn on the TV and a Republican is speaking, all they do is shout socialism. It sounds like the title of a book: "The Republican who cried 'Socialist!' " Considering how the Republicans were in control of the country for the majority of when the beginning of this crisis was starting and did absolutely nothing, I really don't see how their alternative solution can be anything positive. And like the article said, actual socialists have not been voicing their support of Obama. Plus, given how absolutely terrible this nation's healthcare system is, why does the idiotic idea of a $5000 tax credit sound preferrable to universal healthcare? This isn't Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, we don't have to try and keep the little kids out of the big kids' pool. Starving and suffering people looking to the government for help are hardly what anyone would call "moochers." If wanting a sensible, sustainable and equal America is what deems the article's author and I a raging, flaming Leninist, then count me in. I'd rather see an America where the poor and downtrodden are treated as human beings and people are willing to sacrifice for the good of the team than an authoritarian, Darwinian society where only the strongest survive. Are we not able as people to overcome Darwinian law and a corrupt form of capitalism?