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New That gets into issues of definition
Bush is a socialist it the traditional manner.

I'm guessing that your definition of socialism is a bit different then mine.

To me, Socialism implies that the government either owns or strongly regulates major industries. While the US government on paper does have strong regulations, those regulations are often written by the industry they are supposed to regulate and changed when that industry wants them changed. Thus real control is much lower then the pile of regulation would suggest.

All resources/people belong to the state. The state decides who receives the rewards.

I would consider the idea that everything belongs to the state as true of both communism and facism and not true of proper socalism. And Bush leans a lot more towards the facist then communistic end of the spectrum.

Jay
New state owned and operated is socialism, how else to define?
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New But not all
Economically socialism implies significant but not total control of industry. Either thru by owning companies or heavy regulation.

Total ownership of all industry is more or less exclusive to communism. However fascism and other authoritarian governments often have total control over industry through regulation and outright orders, without having ownership.

Jay
     Moral Politics Test - (warmachine) - (27)
         the last non socialist in the whitehouse was Harding - (boxley) - (3)
             That gets into issues of definition - (JayMehaffey) - (2)
                 state owned and operated is socialism, how else to define? -NT - (boxley) - (1)
                     But not all - (JayMehaffey)
         Scored a -1 on order and 1.5 on rules - (JayMehaffey)
         Hmmm. - (Another Scott)
         -3/0.5 - (ben_tilly)
         -2 on the Moral Order axis and -1.5 on the Moral Rules axis - (imqwerky) - (7)
             Survey says: You're married to a dang liberal - (ChrisR) - (6)
                 Twin sons of different mothers? - (Steve Lowe)
                 GAHHHH!!!!! I'm married to a Republican?????? - (imqwerky) - (4)
                     Heh.. so we'uns gots our own Carville + whatshername duo ?! -NT - (Ashton) - (1)
                         'cept'n I'm the Dem and He's the Pub :0D - (imqwerky)
                     You only discover this after 2 decades of marriage? -NT - (warmachine) - (1)
                         Frankly, I think... - (imqwerky)
         This is as expected - (jb4)
         Re: Moral Politics Test - (inthane-chan)
         Not too surprised - (tuberculosis)
         Got -2 +1, Moderate Socialist, Carter Democrat -NT - (Andrew Grygus)
         -3/3.5 No match for US poltical parties. - (mmoffitt)
         Why I must hate Bush - (warmachine) - (1)
             {guffaw class=Brilliant} -NT - (Ashton)
         About as middle of the road as you can get! - (broomberg) - (2)
             Nope. Got you beat. - (n3jja) - (1)
                 No you didn't - (broomberg)
         I'm in... - (Yendor)
         -1, -1.5; Gerald Ford (92.03%). BTW, WTF izzup with those... - (CRConrad)

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