No one philosophy is ideal. Capitalism is a healthy part of a good society just as much as socialism is. My guess is you don’t even want a social health care program to protect all of our fellow human beings — even though it’s pro-business and costs less. You are not compassionate. You only want to think you are.

Keep crying about “liberal handouts” and turning a blind eye to rampant subsidization of corporations that grew like wildfire under Bush. Balanced economic models are not handouts. Progressive taxes are not handouts. Welfare programs are not handouts (you probably haven’t been exposed to actual cases of families that had to fall back on welfare out of sheer need and were eventually able to empower themselves because of it). Social principles are not handouts. It is balance. Balance = empowerment.

To review:

Socialism: neither bad nor good
Capitalism: neither bad nor good:

Achieving sustainability w/ compassion requires a mix of socialism and capitalism that positively looks at the type of society we want to live in… one which either cares only about money or one which also accounts for basic human needs and progress for everyone. But the way you talk, you probably don’t actually give a damn about anyone other than who /you/ have to be around. That’s not compassion.

Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to amuse myself by reading an article about neocons attacking the word “empathy” as being codeword for “activist judges”. What a joke.

Here’s how I see it:
Fox News reports bias.
And Huffington Post reports Fox News bias.

God help any “news” site that perpetuates the skewing of facts, ridiculous straw men, and nonstop verbal abuse that defines that site and its users. And that includes Carlson, if he screws this up.

Reagan, bush, etc? That’s basically two of the three Republican presidents in office the last 30 years. How does that represent “all” Republican presidents over the last 150?

Additionally, it is true that Bush spent a lot of money unnecessarily (I would submit that Reagan’s Congress were the spenders in the 80s, but never mind). His last budget had a $400b deficit.

Obama’s first budget has a $1.8TRILLION deficit. his budget is TWICE his revenue, and I don’t think universal health care has even been calculated yet.

There’s spending, then there’s spending.

Thanks!

That is a flawed equivocation that I am really tired of seeing.

An even more stereotypically phrased version would be “Any TRUE capitalist is fiscally conservative.”

This will not end well for him.

I’d like to audit the liberals’ compassion for human/societal suffering over the last 75 years. You libs certainly have a noble goal that helps you sleep at night (and attack conservatives for not being “compassionate”), but what results have you produced?

How much poverty has been reduced by the War on Poverty? How much has the welfare safety net helped? Let me answer that for you: millions of voters living off the government teet, afraid of losing their handouts, continue to vote Democrat. You have less compassion than we. We actually believe in the individual and their ability to better themselves.

Though if you mean “true capitalists” as in “people who only care about money and disregard human/societal suffering”, then “true capitalists” are also fiscally assholes.