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Hot Air » Top Picks —
... much about it or not—the numbers clearly suggest that we are headed in a more European direction. A decade ago U.S. government spending was 34.3 percent of GDP, compared with 48.2 percent in the euro zone—a roughly 14-point gap, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In 2010 U.S. spending is expected to be 39.9 percent of GDP, compared with 47.1 percent in the euro zone—a gap of less than 8 points. As entitlement spending rises over the next decade, we will become even more French .”
Well, Not Exactly
Riehl World View —
... to Newsweek making the case that we are more or less a socialist country already. The problem is, they don't mention health care. By the time we're done "fixing" that along with entitlements per below, I imagine US government spending as a percent of GDP will rival France. I guess that'll make us more French then France, I suppose. Must be those damned Freedom Fries coming back on us. ...
Newsweek: Celebrating America as a New, Socialist France
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Newsweek's Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas are tired of all this talk of socialism. We need to stop talking about yesterday's news, they say, and embrace the great new fact that America is already a socialist country. They chortle that ...
You know the stimulus bill is bad when …
Sister Toldjah —
... This all brings to mind another debate taking place around all the pushing and shoving going on over the stimulus package: with what has amounted to government ownership of banks now, as well as having a big hand in other industries, and a de-emphasis put on the personal responsiblity of the individual citizen in favor of “government rescue,” are we now going the way of Europe - never to return? ...
Newsweek: Celebrating America as a New, Socialist France
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Newsweek’s Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas are tired of all this talk of socialism. We need to stop talking about yesterday’s news, they say, and embrace the great new fact that America is already a socialist country. They chortle that ...
Prince Obama the Unready
The Wide Awake Cafe —
... the puppy dog press has been forced to cover his mess of a presidency.
It’s bad enough that Obama and his Democrat Party are promising the country the trillion dollar pork sandwich will be good for the economy even though support for the stimulus is sinking, the rabbit eared Obama cannot take the heat of the criticism of the package and had a snit-fit at the Democrat Retreat in Williamsburg, Va.
Unsurprisingly, the writers at Newsweek have seen the rising socialism and have shrugged their shoulders. ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... I don't know if Jon Meachem and Evan Thomas really understand what they're doing in this Newsweek cover story. They may actually think they're addressing rational adults who, upon learning that the prescribed medicine for a serious and life-threatening illness is described in other contexts as a poison, will respond to the irony with a thoughtful nod and then calmly continue the necessary treatments. Meacham and Thomas may really not get the extent to which they're inflaming the rabble; whoever settled on Newsweek's cover may not understand that it's a prop ...
Chilling Thought of the Day: We Are All Socialists Now
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... The subheading lede: In many ways our economy already resembles a European one. As boomers age and spending grows, we will become even more French.
So, does the Washington Post and Newsweek know something that Americans do not know?
We are French?
The Newsweek writers are conflicted on what conservatives who deplore an ever increasing role of government in the economy are actually saying - channeling Bush. Remember Bill Clinton’s pronuncement that the “era of big government is over?”
It is but the LEFT wants to try to ...
Newsweek: ‘We Are All Socialists Now … Blame Bush … But It’s Cool, Embrace It’
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
The top picture is Newsweek’s cover for the story below.
The second picture is a more accurate version … which, of course, is completely over the heads of the Newsweek mentality.
Newsweek:
We Are All Socialists Now
In many ways our economy already resembles a European one. As boomers age and spending grows, we will become even more French.
The interview was nearly over. on the Fox News Channel last Wednesday evening, Sean Hannity was coming to the end of a segment with ...
Newsweek: Celebrating America as a New, Socialist France
Stop The ACLU —
-By Warner Todd Huston [image] Newsweek’s Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas are tired of all this talk of socialism. We need to stop talking about yesterday’s news, they say, and embrace the great new fact that America is already a socialist country. They chortle that America is just like France . Meacham and Thomas chide Sean Hannity for using socialism as a dirty word because it “seems strangely beside the point.” The pair is enthusiastic about our new American socialist society! We are a European country and we like it, claim the Newsweek duo. Unfortunately, they seem to ...
Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/10/2009
Gates of Vienna —
... We Are All Socialists Now In many ways our economy already resembles a European one. As boomers age and spending grows, we will become even more French. The interview was nearly over. on the Fox News Channel last Wednesday evening, Sean Hannity was coming to the end of a segment with Indiana Congressman Mike Pence, the chair of the House Republican Conference and a vociferous foe of President Obama’s nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill. How, Pence had asked rhetorically, was $50 million for the National ...
The price of selling your children’s birthright [Darleen Click]
protein wisdom —
... back to $400 during bargaining by the Democratic-controlled Congress and White House. Couples would receive $800 instead of $1,000. Over two years, that move would pump about $25 billion less into the economy than had been previously planned. Officials estimated it would mean about $13 a week more in people’s paychecks when withholding tables are adjusted in late spring. Critics say that’s unlikely to do much to boost consumption. $13. And Newsweek is positively giddy in it’s “neener, neener” issue of “We Are All Socialists Now” — subtitled: “So you 48% of people who ...
Here it comes
Maggie's Farm —
Newsweek: We are all Socialists now
Powerline: A fourth wave of Liberalism
alicublog — ... forms, called the Obama Administration fascist. He takes off from Newsweek's declaration that Obama is the latest in a line of enablers bringing the country toward French-style socialism, which is just a mildly provocative observation based on apparent facts. Hanson's stuff, on the other hand, is based on ...
Plus, “Obama” and “Mussolini” Both End in Vowels. Coincidence? Not Hardly!
Firedoglake —
... Ledeen's "argument," such as it is, is that Newsweek is wrong to say that "We're All Socialists Now," because socialists don't want to abolish private property, like Obama doesn't. Instead, Obama just wants to do stuff like limit the amount of money executives of financial firms can take home if they accept federal bailout money, which is exactly the sort of thing Mussolini did, not to mention FDR, who was exactly the same as Mussolini. Huzzah! Ledeen then takes a bow, and all the monkeys ...
When you owe the bank $30,000...
SCSUScholars —
... The Obama administration might try to talk a good game on China's exchange rate policies, but Luo's statement is a clear signal that it will have to soften in order to maintain the flow of loanable funds from Asia. If you're an exporter or someone who faces competition from importers, you can add that to the many other reasons to not like the start of the Age of Socialism. ...
Bob Cesca: Sean Hannity's Ridiculous War Against Socialism
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Of course not. It'll never happen because it turns out that most Americans are, to some degree, closeted socialists, especially when they're suddenly confronted by the darker realities of free market capitalism and the destructive long-term effects of both Reaganomics and Bush Republicanism. In practice, this week's cover of Newsweek is only half right. We've always been socialists (with some obvious and necessary limits). A system in which the federal government provides commonly held services while also regulating industry isn't a brand new concept in ...
Alter-nate Reality
Discriminations —
... Newsweek is the magazine that recently informed us in its cover story that “We Are All Socialists Now.” Now one of its quintessential Alter-nate reality writers, Jonathan Alter, tells us “How Obama Can Talk Us Out Of The Recession.” ...
Newsweek Continues Its Campaign For Total Control Over You
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... Newsweek Has Lost It’s Fucking Mind …
When I think how in the last couple weeks leading newspapers in this country’s two largest cities have apologized for damn chimp cartoons NOT aimed at a racial subject, or any “One” person … Yet, this bullshit is prime journalism and unapologetic??!!??
I need my damn duct tape.
We all recall last month’s Newsweek joyful cover:
(Cover story here)
And now there is this: ...
Today in The Nation: The Notion: Overcoming Differences
The Nation: Top Stories —
... what Freud called "the narcissism of small differences." Properly distrustful of power, the stories radicals told ourselves were all about betrayal and defeat. And after so many decades under siege--with even "liberal" considered a term of abuse--maybe that was only to be expected. But the truth is that recently all sorts of notions shunned by the mainstream--from national health care to nationalizing banks--have suddenly entered the realm of political probability. We may not all be socialists now but those of use who were socialists all along need to get ready for some ...
We are all anti-Semites now
American Thinker —
"We are all socialists now" Newsweek famously declared in a February issue this year, letting the nation know that our Knowledge Elites -- the cultural establishment that dominates higher education, media, government and entertainment, and collectively fancies itself the agenda setter for the rest of us -- is now officially backing the statist horse in the economic race. Good bye free market, hello socialism. Why? Because we say so. Call them the Knowledge Elites (KE's), who use position and information to shape our culture. Socialism has become trendy -- witness Harvard's ...
The Tea Party Revolution
The American Spectator —
... genuine grassroots organization, as names and contact information are collected, and this will be valuable for future political activity. These people are both against and for something. They are against the left-wing extremism of the current political leadership in Washington, from Barack Obama to Nancy Pelosi, to Barney Frank, to Henry Waxman, and on and on. No wonder Newsweek (soon going out of business) thinks we are a nation of socialists now, as it admitted in a recent cover story . But even more, the tea party revelers are for a sophisticated vision of economic ...
Mutual Aid: A Factor in Cyberspace
Hit & Run —
... in the Socialism Is Back genre. But he never once uses the words "Obama," "Chrysler," "TARP," or even "France." In fact, as Paul Raven ...
Enchanted Media Moment of the Week:Obama More Catholic Than The Pope?
Nice Deb —
... What is it with Newsweek, lately?
Last February, they triumphantly declared that we’re all Socialists, now. Then Newsweek editor Evan Thomas called Obama ‘a sort of God’ on national t.v., and last week, boldly going where no mag has gone before, Newsweek demoted him to mere Pope. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is the author of the sophomoric piece, which most Catholic teenagers would have more sense than to write.
What could possibly possess them to publish this over the top, nonsensical drivel, which ...
Newsweek: still telling you what you had better accept … [Darleen Click]
protein wisdom —
On the heels of Obama’s inaugural, Newsweek was almost giddy in running a cover article “We are all Socialists Now” . Now Newsweek would have you believe ...
