I do not understand why this country thinks Socialism is so bad. One aspect of Socialism is the sharing of wealth. This country has vast deposits of wealth, they are owned by Coorporations and individuals and held in offshore accounts. This does the people of this country no good, it really does not help the owners of this wealth. It just sits there. What would happen if the wages in this country were to raise to a place where one could minimally pay all their bill's, afford minimum payment for single payer health care, and save a little for the future. I have heard conservatives say that we all have to be free to provide for ourselves. This would be great, but there are circumstances when jobs just disappear or change. The fact that one is not working does not mean they are subhuman or worse. Being unemployed means there is no job for a person to do. We hear the unemployment level is less that 5% to this I say it is this level because the manner in which it is tracked has changed so that this number is reached. The real unemployment rate is about 12%. There are many people who are just not being counted anymore. Socialism exists for the rich, the government pays their taxes, provides benefits through acts of law, and makes sure they get what they want. We just gave them $1,500,000,000.00 to insure this. We were told this would trickle down to us. Where is it? One who posts on this site got a . 35 raise on each check, what percent of the gross amount is that. What is that going to do to help this persons life? If the money was put into Social programs it would have gone directly into the economy, not in the coffers of offshore accounts. We are told that if we all were able to thrive the economy would falter. I say biullshit, the movement of money through the economy makes for more money, putting money into the economy grows the economy. Any one who makes less than $30,000.00 a year puts all they have back into the economy, I used to make this and I could pay all my bills, no savings account, what is that, in order to have one you have to make more than it costs to live. If we shared more, spread more money around, we would all be better off. Just saying.