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Originally Posted by Excaliber

I want us all to pay a reasonable price for reasonable health care for a larger percentage of the population than currently has access to it. If you want nicer streets, better parks, a more secure neighborhood you don't call that "socialism", you call it paying taxes. Don't want better parks? You can always move or elect someone else to stop it. Maybe I DO want better parks, better health care. Maybe I'll help get those elected that have the same goals.

...stop with the socialism BS all ready, it's an extremist argument that ignores reality.

No Ernie, Socialism is only extremist if you are extremist. In many peoples minds Socialism is just the natural road to travel and when others call it what it really is, they react as you have.

You are confusing Social Contract,with Socialism. Social Contract is where citizens give up some freedom(consent of the governed) to have social order, in that the government is responsible to do the things a individual citizen can't i.e. build a highway, park or bridge, to supply national, and local security. Socialism is the government taking control from private enterprise in production and distribution of goods or products. A great deal of difference between the two.