Socialism for Dummies

truthdig.com — So this is how the “ownership society” works. We own all the bad stuff. What we will own are potentially worthless assets for which there are currently no private buyers. After more than three decades of being told we can’t afford to keep a modest safety net beneath the people on Main Street, we have thrown the mother of all lifelines to Wall Street. This is the conservative dogma that has constrained our politics for a generation.

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