>>>Perhaps you would be so kind as to point the 'inconsistencies' out to me since you pointed it out?
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>>>Simple - how does one reconcile support for a national health care system while denouncing the thought of the United States growing closer to socialism?
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>>I have supported universal health care for months - even during the campaign. It is a concession I am willing to make. However, I do not support Obama's plan for instituting it based on what I have read so far and I also do not support it while we are in the middle of the greatest deficit in history and the greatest reliance on foreign money ever. The economic and political threat is too great until that is resolved.
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>>When you take all of the policies implemented and those planned into consideration, it is a definite move towards socialism and government control of the people. I also stated that the greatest concern for that was the cap and trade.
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>>Does supporting ssn and medicare make you a socialist?
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>>(I am having some serious problems on the UT today. My screen keeps freezing up and there are huge pauses while I am typing before the characters are displayed. It just took about 10 secs to save my last comments. don't know what's up, but it definitely is frustrating)
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>Could you all find a different word to "socialism" because you are light years away from it and you aren't heading towards it so you are all debasing the word.

How do you know we are definitely not heading towards it? According to some of the definitions of socialism in merriam webster, we are moving in that direction.