Socialism and Capitalism

The US is already a mix of socialism and capitalism.  If socialism is always evil then I guess not only are you against the recent government action to buy into private banks and bail out the economy (by the socialist Bush administration) but you also want to get rid of social security, Medicare, Medicaid and  the Department of Education.  Is any government intervention wrong i.e., Iraq and Afghanistan?  Why would you stop anywhere left of Adam Smith?  Heck, why have his “limited government”?  What not privatize the military and local government?  Hey, why not get rid of all government?  Can’t the market self-govern?  How far do you folks want to go with this?  You seem to throw these terms around as some sort of code words but I would like to know how far you want to go with the direction you imply.  Where would you stop and why?  It is always easy to make negative statements but much harder to think through the ramifications of your implications and make positive statements of your ideals.

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