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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Individualism is at the heart of what makes America, well America. Socialism or social policy is antithetical to this...
Canada has always been more or less socialist in our approach to things... I think it has to do with two factors...
1) we are a nation that has chosen compromise both with Britain and between the three nations that made up the founding of Canada (French, English, Aboriginal)
2) the weather... people don't survive Canadian winters without the help and support of the community as a whole. In large parts of the US you can live off the land all year long (in the US I was witness to rural poverty, something you just don't see in Canada). This is probably why the Scandinavians have similar policies...
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You know, I used to think the same thing until this morning.
I was listening to NPR and they were talking about this monstrasity of a bill, the prescription drug plan that takes effect this year. The report said that by next year, the federal govt will pick up the bill of 41% of
all drug purchases in the entire country. And by 2010, it will engulf 50%.
It looks like the US is not too far behind on the socialist race