once you accept Danegeld, its very difficult to get rid of the Dane.

About freaking time. Execs have been raping the economic system for long enough. The Sheriff's in town, now, Dirty Dan!

Socialism here we come.

Will he include members of the US Congress?? They do a pretty good job of financially raping the tax payer.

About time, too, Kris_Tea. The rest of the civilized world went socialist decades ago. It would be good for America to actually catch up to places like Denmark and the Netherlands.

The first step for Americans is to learn what socialism actually is, rather than assuming it's some kind of boogieman that the Right-Wing Nutjobs keep trying to scare you with.

No innovation, no great jobs, no desire--nor need--to work hard.

Meanwhile, China is buying us lock, stock and barrel.

Only the lazy and incompetent think socialism is going to be good for us.

Today it is banks, tomorrow it is you.

Can't wait until your light bill is $1000 a month and your salary is capped at $30k.

We are finis. The fat lady is singing.

Nice fantasy there, gemfemfox. Way to rage against something that isn't actually happening. Conservatives love to conjure up audacious fantasies, and then protest vehemently against them as if they were real.

It's only the companies that got bailed out that are getting the salary cap on their execs. Not the common workers. Not the people that actually do the work, who make the innovations. Just the people who take the credit for other people's work.

And yes, socialism will be good for you. Find out what that really means before you mock it, because most of the civilized world is socialist. America is the anachronistic new-feudal system that's so damnable in this day and age.

Funny how the USA is such a anachronistic new-feudal system yet everybody and their brother else where in the world seems to be dying to move in.

Socialism is the death of a society.

If we lived in a *perfect* world, it would work...but we do not!!! Pure foolishness at best...Destruction at it worst!

Socialism is the birth of a functional, equal society. And the only reason people want to come to America is that either it's better than where they come from (It must be pretty bad), or they bought the lie of the "American Dream".

Europe can only be Europe as longs as America continues to be America. We prop up the world. We allow the luxury of their socialism. Once we go away and much less fair and dictatorial socialism will evolve. Then you will all lament what once was.

Aren't we full of ourselves. Well, I have news for you. America is about to be kicked to the curb. Negotiations are being made now to abandon the American Dollar as the global reserve currency, and when that happens, the US will become totally redundant. Additionally, with the world no longer supporting the American dollar (yes, the world props up America, not the other way around), the value of the dollar is about to plummet and inflation in America is going to pretty much destroy the county as any kind of power in the world.

America's heyday is over. Time to face the reaper.

Oh, and Socialism is more strongly drawn to Democracy than Fascism. The world is supporting itself just fine on the backs of the many social democracies in the world. America is nothing but a bully trying to hold everything back in the Dark Ages.

Um, ok. Socialism and Fascism are two sides of the same coin. The very idea that submitting all your decisions to a central government is akin to Democracy is laughable. I guess you could say that if everyone got together and voted for Socialism that initial vote would be Democratic but everything from there on out wouldn't be. And...are you intimating that the US is Fascist? Boy oare you on track with the world supporting itself on the backs of socialsim. But it isn't on the backs of Socialist Governmnets it is on the backs of the people in those countries. Whether they like it or not.

Your ignorance is showing. Fascism and Socialism are *not* linked. They can coexists, just like Fascism and Capitalism can exist. If you want an example of that, just look at the Bush Presidency. Yes, under Bush, America *was* fascist. Shame on you for not seeing it. But then again, you probably watch nothing but FoxNews, and think that the world loves you.

Honestly, is there as single right-winger that knows what socialism actually is, or are all brainwashed by that paranoid moron, McCarthy? Except for America, the most prosperous countries in the world are social democracies. Wake up and step into the 21st Century. Republics are the way of the past; flawed structures that only lead to authoritarianism.