Socialism Is OK for Rich White Guys, But Not the Rest of Us

Posted by Attaturk, Firedoglake at 6:33 AM on March 18, 2008.

Universal Health Care is socialism! Somewhere a white guy is complaining about welfare queens, and our $12 billion a month occupation is a battle against a foe so dangerous they always lose (especially upper management) yet can never be defeated. Because freedom rocks, and capitalism rolls.

For years now we've been told that socialism is the worse thing ever, it's like a million Hitlers on roller skates, topless and singing Wagner in a new Stephen Sondheim play presented as a viral video on You Tube.

Unless, of course, you are the archetype of capitalism, then socialism is awesome!

Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries and how government should keep its hands off the private economy.

The Wall Street titans have turned into a bunch of welfare clients. They are desperate to be bailed out by government from their own incompetence, and from the deregulatory regime for which they lobbied so hard...

It's just fine to make it harder for the average Joe to file for bankruptcy, as did that wretched bankruptcy bill passed by Congress in 2005 at the request of the credit card industry. But the big guys are "too big to fail," because they could bring us all down with them.

Enter the federal government, the institution to which the wealthy are not supposed to pay capital gains or inheritance taxes. Good God, you don't expect these people to trade in their BMWs for Saturns, do you?

Thank goodness while the economy sinks at our feet and we dump monopoly money into occupations that don't accomplish crap our media focuses on the important things, like whether a black man is just too damned scary to preserve such admirable policies.

(picture is a 1920 campaign button for Eugene Debs...proving we did not invent snark)

Tagged as: socialism, economy

Attaturk is a regular blogger for FireDogLake