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Bachus says 17 members of the U.S. House are socialists.

hypocritexposer

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Bachus tells city and county officials he's worried about socialists in Congress
Posted by jwgray April 09, 2009 10:52AM
Touring his Birmingham-area district today, U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus started the day in Trussville, where he treated a breakfast of municipal and county leaders to his thoughts on guns, socialists and the federal budget.

APU.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus, shown here in Washington, spoke to city and county officials at a breakfast in Trussville today.
As for President Barack Obama, the Vestavia Hills Republican said he has "some hope."

"He's a better listener than George W. Bush," Bachus said. "He tries to get ideas from people."

But he said he is worried that he is being steered too far by the Congress: "Some of the men and women I work with in Congress are socialists."

Asked to clarify his comments after the breakfast speech at the Trussville Civic Center, Bachus said 17 members of the U.S. House are socialists.

Bachus did not support small city officials who asked if he would oppose all gun bans. Instead, he said, it may be necessary to support some assault weapon bans in order to keep all guns from being outlawed.

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/04/bachus_tells_city_and_county_o.html
 

Tex

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There are probably only a handful of politicians in Congress who are not socialists in some way or another and more who are fascist in economic terms.

They all want the taxpayer to pay for things in their districts or for their campaign donors that they shouldn't pay for.

The agriculture committees are among the worst, and that includes Bachus.

Some forms of socialism might actually be good policy. The insurance industry, for instance, is nothing more than a business of a socialist enterprise because they take in premiums and then pay out based on the "need" or claims. The backing of all depositors in the banks and now to money market accounts are another example of "good" socialism----but the other policies that go along with them are not. The taxpayer, in these instances, are the insurance company backing these accounts. It is a socialization of the risks.

The terms being thrown around in D.C. really mean nothing today. They are huge simplifications that are being used for political purposes.

The "bad" that is going along with some of these policies is not the socialism, but the fascism. Fascism exists when the government bails out business models that fail but not the average tax payer. This is what is happening with the Wall Street bail outs. The management of the banks and the financial services industry have been able to bank their money and put their losses on the taxpayer. You could call it socialism, but when the socialism benefits businesses, it could be more accurately defined as fascism. If we wanted to undo this, the owners of the banks who have taken the risk and become insolvent should lose all their capital (the govt. shouldn't have let them have such poor capitalization and the risks that go with it) and management should change as in all board members and upper management fired and possibly looking into the profits they received by taking the risks that were ultimately paid for by taxpayers.
 
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