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In reply to the discussion: Johnson Says Pentagon Needs More Money for 'Fighting Communism on Our Own Shores' [View all]31j20b3
(310 posts)The very dangerous thing is the Republicans think that our social security retirement insurance, and medicare are communist programs.
They aren't communism, they are merely citizens as a collective group using the national wealth they helped create for their needs in infirmity and in older age when Private Equity didn't want to get within a mile of the financial risks of old-age and disability.
Communism is when the government runs businesses... and Trump is now investing taxpayer dollars in private business to create government ownership control.
They complain it's too big a part of federal spending, but it's a big part of federal spending because of tax cuts and tax dodges for the rich. Those programs make huge purchases that treat what should be independent corporations as if they are contract employees of the government. Which is to say just like in Communism the government controls the production of very expensive stuff... like warships, war planes, and general armament.
IT'S HUUGE. And Donald's kids are now surgically attached to those tits.