On Socialism and the Economy

Republicans are breathlessly claiming over and over again that Obama and the Democrats in Congress are trying to turn America into a Marxist/Socialist proletariat led European style welfare state.

This is, of course, patently absurd.

Question: what's the biggest 'socialist' entity in America today? Answer: the military. Fire departments, post offices, police stations....dog catchers, public schools. All evil socialist bodies.

Question 2: Which political party took the biggest budget surplus in American history that Bill Clinton created, and turned it into the biggest deficit in American history? Answer: the Republican party.

And we're supposed to believe these fiscal bozos on anything with regards to taxing and spending?

Trying to frighten people by tossing around the word 'socialism' and how the big bad American government is trying to take over our lives isn't policy. It's empty rhetoric.