Because I'm not American, and by the standards of everyone else in the world, he and every other mainstream Democrat are right-wingers with pretensions
towards centrism. It is hilarious watching American pundits throw around words like "socialist" when they have no idea what it means.
Incidentally, it's probably worth noting that a public health care system would probably cost you less than the current mess you have. Canada, for
instance, pays less per capita for their universal health care system (hardly ideal, but better than the US by a wide margin) than Americans pay for theirs. To
say nothing of the enormous and numerous side benefits of universal health care to the health/welfare of the population, and the incidental side benefit that
it would remove one of the factors that is destroying what's left of the US auto industry. Not that I'm drawing any judgements on Obama's health
care plan until more details of it come out.
Every politician in the world is "tax and spend". Obama isn't a liberal by the modern definition of the term. "Tax and spend" does beat
"don't tax and spend", however.
towards centrism. It is hilarious watching American pundits throw around words like "socialist" when they have no idea what it means.
Incidentally, it's probably worth noting that a public health care system would probably cost you less than the current mess you have. Canada, for
instance, pays less per capita for their universal health care system (hardly ideal, but better than the US by a wide margin) than Americans pay for theirs. To
say nothing of the enormous and numerous side benefits of universal health care to the health/welfare of the population, and the incidental side benefit that
it would remove one of the factors that is destroying what's left of the US auto industry. Not that I'm drawing any judgements on Obama's health
care plan until more details of it come out.
Every politician in the world is "tax and spend". Obama isn't a liberal by the modern definition of the term. "Tax and spend" does beat
"don't tax and spend", however.