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Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 04:37 PM Dec 2012

If Obama's a socialist, this must be outright Communism--

1) A proposed Family Assistance Program (FAP), intended to replace the service-oriented Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), would provide working and nonworking poor families with a guaranteed annual income.

2) A plan that mandates employers to purchase health insurance for their employees, and provides a federal health plan, similar to Medicaid, that any American can join by paying on a sliding scale based on income.

3) Using the "peace dividend" from ending a war and reducing military expenditures to finance social welfare services and enforce civil rights through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. so that spending on human resource services would spending for defense for the first time in many decades.


These were all policies proposed or implemented by Richard Nixon.

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