Bill Clinton wanted everyone in the United States to get free Health Care. What a great idea. Canada has free-health care to all Canadians. However, the life-expectancy in Canada is lower than the life-expectancy in the U.S. And do you know why? Because when everybody has it, the quality of it decreases severly. Sure, tax all the wealthy. That is socialism! Such socialistical ideas were around way back in 1925, with the Share Our Wealth campaign. Many people were out of work, so why not tax the well to do so we can all have the same amount of money. Bill Clinton tried to do this, but Conservatives blocked his folley. Efforts by Rush Limbaugh and others may they forever go down in history for their heroic efforts. And they helped flush Clinton's publicity down the toilet. Although Clinton did do a few conservative things, history has taught us this liberalism where everyone has health care does not work.
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You're entitled to your opinion, but your logic is brutally flawed, as is your source of facts. The life expectancy in Canada is around 79 years. The life expectancy in the United States is 77.6 years. The difference is well within the margin of error. However, if you are comparing socialism to life expectancy, look no farther than Sweden and the rest of North/West Europe. Sweden has the second highest life expectancy rate on earth, and all of Western and Northern Europe have life expectancies in the high 70s. They are all also governed by Social Democracy, an evolved form of socialism.
By the way, as much as politicians refuse to admit it, we live under a mild form of Social Democracy in the United States.
By the way #2, Share Our Wealth began in 1934, well into the Great Depression (hence people not having jobs). It was mearly a poorly planned idea, and it never got past the development stages.
So, the lesson we all learned today is, whenever MSP writes anything, take it with a basketball-sized grain of salt. That, or do some research and prove him wrong (because he always is).
