Strictly speaking yes, but it is not a uniquely socialist idea. This is like saying revolutionary leftists are really libertarians since both oppose gun control.
The point being?
She isn't anymore left-wing or "socialist" than Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman or Hubert Humphrey. Of course in the world of the American far-right, even Burkean conservatives are quasi-Marxists due to their refusal to uncritically accept capitalism.
Elizabeth Warren's 11 Commandments
Discussion in 'Political Debate & Discussion' started by Rolfe, Jul 19, 2014.
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Bro. Curtis <img src =/curtis.gif>Site Supporter
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- China
- Denmark
- Finland
- Netherlands
- Canada
- Sweden
- Norway
- Ireland
- New Zealand
- Belgium
But wait a minute ... Who exactly is this “We” and “Our”?
She's actually a slimy lawyer running as a class warrior, but her real clients are the "1%" and people think she's a Socialist?
She's political parasite who lies twelve times before breakfast, who would rather jump off a bridge than work for a living, all the while living off the money forcibly redistributed from those who do work … and crazy people decide She's a Socialist?
Elizabeth Warren is establishment Washington. She embodies Washington. She’s an academic and a lawyer and a politician and a regulator.
And then she starts talking about all the “little people” like her who have to make do with a $740,000 condo and her pitiful $15 million net worth.
Who’s going to stand up for the little lawyer/regulator/politicians with only 1.5 billion pennies to scratch together?
By golly, Elizabeth Warren will!
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By the way is this you?
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I'm not taking that list seriously considering it doesn't even list the two countries with economies that are actually state-run: North Korea and Cuba.
By contrast, the conservative Heritage Foundation has listed several of the countries mentioned above as paragons of economic freedom with New Zealand at fifth place, Canada at sixth, Ireland at 9th, and Denmark at 10th-all of them higher ranked than the United States: http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
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Speaking at a liberal bloggers' convention, Elizabeth Warren outlined her list of "11 commandments of progressivism".
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Revmitchell Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Yep that is the extreme liberals answer to everything. Take more money from the tax payer and give it to someone else.
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I stand corrected with Truman proposing a single-payer system, however Truman still clearly wanted health care access for all Americans and since the 1940s medical care has become steadily more expensive. People would also pay for the insurance plans they would receive under the Affordable Care Act. Its true President Truman's health care plan was far more simpler but that's because it would have had a simple "public option" anybody could opt into. Such a public option was proposed during the initial stages of the ACA but was not included thanks to right-wing Democrats such as Joe Liberman.
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That doesn't contradict my statement that he intended all Americans to have some form of health insurance. Most people would get it from their employers while others would take advantage of their national health insurance system.
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