Democratic Socialism is Still Socialism

So don't use all the social programs in place by the the government if you don't agree in some part. You know like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, disability insurance, and Welfare. Take all of them away, and the next easy target is the " military healthcare for life", oh yeah they never promised that!!.
Verterans preference in hiring and job training Vets are also social programs.
So yeah let get rid of all those things and the national debt will disappear.
Utopian society must be a great place to live in.
I pay my taxes and like to help people , but the only ones that seem to get along just fine are the politicians.

Socialism is a handy name for (insert pet hate of your choice here). America is actually more closer to socialism (SFC George Smith) than it is to true Capitalism.

Cpl Joshua Caldwell - I think you need to provide some sources for your claims. The two that stick out most prominently are the gun confiscation and that Hitler felt he was a leftie. The first is demonstrably false. Once the Nazi Party came into power, they relaxed gun ownership laws, making it easier for Germans to own weapons. They even encouraged the average citizen to go out and buy a gun. Hitler was not a Socialist. They simply used the word to garner more support by seeming more benign. Hitler, like Mussolini, was a Fascist.

SGT Edward Wilcox this should help clear things up for you, there is a lot of documentation proving that Hitler was a socialist, and that the nazi part was built upon a platform of socialism. this author does a good job of spelling it out - http://jonjayray.tripod.com/hitler.html

Cpl Joshua Caldwell - 1900's Germany had a "state" district type system with governors that ran it. Hitler installed only cronies and buddies as "gaulitiers" and leaders of everything else. The problem with the Third Reich was not a "system" as such. It was a junta for all intents and purposes with Hitlers' "general's council" or tribal council consisting of folk who owed him favors. So while he may have had poster after poster printed proclaiming himself to be socialist, god, savior, any other adjective under the sun, he was a dictator none-the-less.

Were Hitler to have been even a mildly successful socialist, they'd have stopped the war after Czechoslavakia, right? Also, consider the pacts with Japan, Italy and indeed, even communist Russia. Socialism in its pure form requires adherence to set quotas. Certain numbers of x have to be x, etc. Theres no way a communist or militarist (Japan) system would find any success in socialism.

No matter which way you slice it, he was just a plain old sick puppy.

PO3 Donald Murphy I’m not at all being facetious, but let’s get drunk sometime. I need these kinds of conversations in my life lol