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How is Barack Obama a “socialist”?

A random guy actually come up to my house the other day with a McCain pin on his shirt. He asked me who I was voting for and I said Obama. He rolled his eyes and said “Why are you voting for a socialist?” Yet couldn’t explain to me how exactly he was a socialist.

Socialism is being thrown around so often these days, I believe very few even know what it means. It means state ownership of those things that normally are privately owned. We are currently practicing socialism in very subtle forms such as bank ownership by governments. Now some dems want 401k ownership and regualtion thoguh govt. Thats socialism.

Obama wants further state intervention and control of govt through regulation and ownership of the financial industry and mortgage industry.He wants socialized health care, more money for failing schools. He wants more welfare funds to keep people dependent on the govt. He wants regulation of free speech through “fairness” doctrine. Increasing taxes to redistribute thru govt channels isnt what this nation was founded upon either.