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Chomsky: In swing states vote Obama without illusions

Noam Chomsky: People should vote against McCain and for Obama - but without illusions  
 
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xiuka666 (4 days ago) Show Hide
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Obama genocida
MillionthUsername (6 days ago) Show Hide
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Chomsky, the "anarchist," thinks we have "freedom" now because of the New Deal? Wow. I didn't know I was free, and I didn't know that it was Roosevelt who set me free. Amazing what you can learn on the internet!

And at 6:00, this nut says that the health care system is messed up because it's "privatized"! I guess the nut doesn't understand that it's controlled by the gov't? He should read the laws and the papers once in a while.

What a joke!
Nickalispicalis (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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I think Canada does have one of the best health care systems in the world. It is govt funded but not govt run, unlike the British system which is govt run and govt funded.
loturos (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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chomsky is supposedy an anarchist, yet he wants a public healthcare system? is there anyway to reconcile this?
dzan242 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Anarchist = socialist libertarian.  There's nothing to reconcile.
loturos (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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actually there is. first of all there are more than one types of anarchist. second, a public health care system requires that there be a "public", ie. a state, as opposed to "private", ie. owned by a person or group of people. in an anarchist system the police, firemen, road constructors, etc. are all privatized because there's no state to make it "public" or "nationalized".
how would health care be different from what the US has now?
MillionthUsername (6 days ago) Show Hide
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Nothing to reconcile? Oh, ok. "Smash the state...and while you're at it implement forced government health care."

Hypocrite.
dzan242 (6 days ago) Show Hide
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The idea isn't to get rid of all forms of order and public benefits, but to dismantle the centralized power of the federal government and enormous corporations. Health care could be handled much more efficiently if managed regionally. You don't need the centralized power of a federal government to achieve that. There's nothing contradictory about this. The economic system he proposes is Parecon, specifically, if you're interested.
MillionthUsername (5 days ago) Show Hide
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Um, he's an "anarchist" and he's recommending the expansion of the state? He thinks it's ok for Nancy Pelosi to control my medical decisions?

I don't want her tyranny and I don't want his or yours. I don't want my health care "managed regionally". I'm quite capable of making my own arrangements with others as long as we are not repressed by Pelosi, Chomsky, or anyone else.

I honestly cannot tell the difference between statists and collectivist "anarchist." Is it just a change of rulers?
caelestis356 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Well, yeah I agree that the majority of the people do want some kind of public involvement. I don't personally consider the public option nationalized health care, though. When I hear "nationalized health care" I think single payer system, and I have a feeling the majority of Americans do not want that, although I may be wrong.

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