USSR USSA

From 2Millionth Web Log

Not that ideological consistency is a wingnut strongsuit, but I find the lack of squawking about the the new, even more socialist United States--with at leat $700 billion more socialism than the previous socialist United States--telling, particularly given that this socialism is coming courtesy of the Republican Bush administration.

It'll be interesting to see if the institutional memory in the form of the press will remind wingers of this when they inevitably screech about spending in an Obama administration...which will be necessary and even desirable, given that the alternative is...economic collapse, which I doubt any but the looniest of survivalists really prefer.

Of course, what's not mentioned is that government has been in the wealth distribution--or redistrubition--business for some time. Claiming otherwise is denial on a massive scale...the same sort of denial that, in other spheres, allows some to call the tragedy in Iraq the cusp of victory...or insist that an American city drowned by by gross negligence is unworthy of assistance or even recompense.

I suppose time will tell with regards to President-elect Obama's -- and, I'll admit, I like how 'President-elect Obama' sounds...and 'President Obama' sounds even better -- anyway, time will tell as to the particulars of his economic stimulus...but the fact is that the United States IS a social democracy, regardless of winger howls of denial, the United States has become even MORE of a social democracy, thanks to Team Bush economic mismanagement that's necessitated public investment...and the United States will continue to be a social democracy in the foreseeable future.

And, since it IS a social democracy, I wouldn't mind seeing some public funds pledged for what amounts to a very good investment, namely, the restoration of coastal Louisiana and future protection of it, New Orleans, and even the entire Gulf Coast.

After all, it's OUR government, too.