BILL MAHER STANDS IN FOR POLITICS PROFESSOR: 'SOCIALISM HAS COME TO BE A VERY DIRTY WORD'
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2012/05/04 19:36:48
This Monday, on a new episode of mtvU's Stand In, the political commentator and host of HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher will make his way to the front of a UCLA lecture hall to talk socialism and capitalism in America. Successful democracies tend to be capitalist-socialist hybrids, he explains to the class. "But for some reason, 'socialism' got to be a very dirty word in this country. It's what they always throw at Obama, right?"
"Are you kidding?! We have socialism already in America!" he continues. "The government does nothing but hand out money to people, but they hate that word," pointing to medicare, medicaid and farm subsidies as examples before challenging such programs' efficiency. "The difference between American socialism and European socialism is: theirs works." http://act.mtv.com//wp-content/uploads/act/2012/05/bill21.jpg
"Are you kidding?! We have socialism already in America!" he continues. "The government does nothing but hand out money to people, but they hate that word," pointing to medicare, medicaid and farm subsidies as examples before challenging such programs' efficiency. "The difference between American socialism and European socialism is: theirs works." http://act.mtv.com//wp-content/uploads/act/2012/05/bill21.jpg
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- Striker 2012/05/04 21:56:27
+1Socialism has ALWAYS been a dirty word, Bill.reply
