Why are the people who decry Obama as a ``socialist'' perfectly content to have public police and fire...

Question

protection, public schools, and an interstate highway system, but espouse blanket denial that there might be any need for new social programs?

Answer 1

Because they only want the "socialism"(sic) that benefits themselves.

Answer 2

most people i hear spouting off about socialism don't even know the meaning of the term.  it's just another insult they hurl.

Answer 3

Public services such as security forces have nothing to do

with socialism at all. The police derive their very name

from "policy" enforcers. Those in office determine how public

money gets spent. In a bourgeois democracy such as the

US, it is still just a bourgeois dictatorship.

Those calling Obama a socialists are jingoists and racists

who kno how reflexive the US herd is to certain catch words:

Heard this heard that.....STAMPEDE

Worked for two terms of the Bush Administration

Answer 4

it's the word of the day on limbaugh. that and liberal.

how about student loans,pell grants,VHA,fannie may,freddie mac,HUD,FEMA,homeland security,dept of agriculture,CHURCH(tax exempt). these are just a few but you get the point.