That's all so true. Greg and I are doing better than average with our combined incomes, and yet we have less expendable income than we've ever had, because all kinds of expenses just keep skyrocketing. I feel like the harder I work, the less I have to show for it these days.
When did "socialism" become such a dirty word? I think in a lot of ways, socialization is the way to go. Heck, we already have socialized education and no one freaks out about that. Canada and all of Europe has had socialized medicine for decades and it hasn't led to armageddon for them yet.
It reminds me of the demonization of the word "liberal"...that kind of happened during the last administration. It's a little frightening how pundits and politicos can spin a term to make it unpalatable to the general public, even if the general public has no real sense of what the term actually means.
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Date: 2008-12-09 04:45 pm (UTC)When did "socialism" become such a dirty word? I think in a lot of ways, socialization is the way to go. Heck, we already have socialized education and no one freaks out about that. Canada and all of Europe has had socialized medicine for decades and it hasn't led to armageddon for them yet.
It reminds me of the demonization of the word "liberal"...that kind of happened during the last administration. It's a little frightening how pundits and politicos can spin a term to make it unpalatable to the general public, even if the general public has no real sense of what the term actually means.