| One of the reasons for the demise of the Soviet | | | | they must take out a loan with a bank or the auto |
| Union and other forms of communism, was because | | | | company's finance service. Years ago a person could |
| such governments opposed the private ownership of | | | | save up and make a cash purchase of a new car, but |
| things. The government used socialism to try to control | | | | today one can't even buy a decent used car without |
| what a person could own or even hope to achieve | | | | some form of credit. |
| throughout his or her life. | | | | Furniture is being rented by some people, because |
| Initially capitalism was based on the idea that an | | | | they can't afford to buy it. Practically all new furniture |
| individual can own what one desires if one chooses to | | | | stores offer credit, because they realize most people |
| work for it. Under capitalism, a hard worker can hope | | | | can't afford cash purchases. |
| to prosper and control one's life in any way one | | | | There are so many Federal, State, and Municipal laws |
| chooses. | | | | (and the number grows every day), that just by being |
| But instead of the capitalist ideal, it seems the United | | | | alive a person must be violating some law. If a |
| States of today is more socialist than ever before. | | | | government or corporate agency felt like it, an |
| Consider the following elements of current American | | | | individual can be arrested at any time. |
| life. | | | | High tech tracking has made it hard to maintain your |
| Hospital care is so high that most individual Americans | | | | privacy. Soon everyone will be connected to the |
| cannot afford to pay for it. So they must depend on | | | | internet through DSL lines, Cable Modems, or other high |
| their employer ( Corporate America). | | | | speed connections. This type of media maintains |
| The price of colleges and other schools are out of | | | | connections continuously. Currently an individual can |
| range for most individual Americans. To send their kids | | | | turn his computer off and disconnect from the internet |
| to college average people depend on things like | | | | even if he has DSL. The day is coming where it will be |
| college insurance, loans, scholarships, and grants. | | | | against the law to turn off a computer, TV, or any |
| Another words, the education of most Americans | | | | other monitoring device. Americans will be forced to |
| depends on the benevolence of some Corporate or | | | | listen to the ravings of Corporate Aliens during |
| Government Entity. | | | | breakfast, lunch, and dinner. |
| Most Americans can't afford property, they have to | | | | Independent small businesses will soon not exist. Large |
| take out mortgages with Corporate Banks. If they pay | | | | corporations are either wiping out, merging, or |
| off their mortgage, they still don't own their property. | | | | partnering with small business. Even such a basic |
| Taxes have become so high, that, in some cases, it | | | | business as farming is becoming corporate rather than |
| costs more in taxes than if the equivalent property | | | | family owned. Soon every business will be either a |
| was rented. Whenever the government or some other | | | | branch or a partner of a large corporation. |
| corporation decides, they can condemn a person's | | | | So how socialized is the United States of America? If |
| property and have that person forcibly evicted. A new | | | | it continues at this rate it will soon be called the United |
| Supreme Court decision was handed down this year | | | | Socialist States of America (USSA). While dictators |
| (2005) to make it easier for local Government Entities | | | | like Stalin were trying to force the population of the |
| to legally confiscate your property for the common | | | | USSR into submission, the Corporate Aliens launched a |
| good (Kelo vs New London ). | | | | quiet invasion, and little by little gained more and more |
| Family Homes are being replaced by condominiums. | | | | control over the majority of the American people. |
| This scheme allows you to "own" a unit, but you must | | | | Unlike the Soviet Union, US socialism is not totally |
| pay for the upkeep of the common area where your | | | | government controlled, but it's a joint effort of both |
| unit is located.( The individual gives up control of the | | | | government and corporate entities. What's even |
| land his unit is on to some corporate entity. The unit | | | | worse, is that the entire world is being groomed based |
| cannot exist without the controlling entity. ) | | | | on similar principles. |
| Most Americans can't afford to buy cars with cash, so | | | | |