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If public spending is socialism then why don't states that don't the one party blue states that don't get antsy about "socialism" have great infrastructure?

x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
Are interstates recipients of Federal funding or only state funding?
kevingadd 4y ago
No blue state is actually okay with socialism at any higher level. The Democrat party leadership hates left-wing politics. Just the other day Pete Buttigieg was trying to explain how we can't solve baby formula problems the socialist way so children have to starve for the sake of factory owners: > Biden’s secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, has argued that this kind of socialist experiment would be unacceptable — even to stop babies from starving to death. “Let’s be very clear,” Buttigieg told CBS, “This is a capitalist country. The government does not make baby formula, nor should it. Companies make baby formula.” (For the record, "Socialism" would not fix the US's bridge or baby formula woes because they are both the results of decades of neglect and bad policy that can't be undone in a year.)
- uoaei 4y ago
  I'm also a bit confused why that came up, considering he's head of transportation. Do they also concern themselves with manufacturing?
  - munk-a 4y ago
    Biden's approval numbers are absolute garbage - I suspect he'll have a contested run in 2024 (or "voluntarily" decline to run) and all the sharks want to start getting their names in the headlines.
    - justbaker 4y ago
      Right now I don’t see any way he’ll run knowing he won’t win.
      - munk-a 4y ago
        Hubris is a hell of a drug.
  - Mountain_Skies 4y ago
    He had previous in the last couple of days mentioned that him and his husband were unable to find formula for their baby so the question likely came up again since he already had spoken out on the matter. I don't know the context in which it came up days ago. Perhaps it was in a more open ended "get to know" type of interview he was doing.
- thaumasiotes 4y ago
  > “This is a capitalist country. The government does not make baby formula, nor should it. Companies make baby formula.” Singapore would disagree that government manufacture of baby formula represents socialism. The government can do what it wants without impairing the market. Where socialism comes in is when the government intervenes to protect its baby formula industry, by barring competitors from participating in the market or by subsidizing its own formula manufacture with tax revenues.
fabianhjr 4y ago
> If public spending is socialism It isn't, my comment is a jab on US politics and discourse; though neoliberalism and "minarchism" has corroded the existing infrastructure through "austerity" (money redirection towards forever wars and imperialism) and red-scare tactics.

x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago

Are interstates recipients of Federal funding or only state funding?

kevingadd 4y ago

No blue state is actually okay with socialism at any higher level. The Democrat party leadership hates left-wing politics. Just the other day Pete Buttigieg was trying to explain how we can't solve baby formula problems the socialist way so children have to starve for the sake of factory owners: > Biden’s secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, has argued that this kind of socialist experiment would be unacceptable — even to stop babies from starving to death. “Let’s be very clear,” Buttigieg told CBS, “This is a capitalist country. The government does not make baby formula, nor should it. Companies make baby formula.” (For the record, "Socialism" would not fix the US's bridge or baby formula woes because they are both the results of decades of neglect and bad policy that can't be undone in a year.)

uoaei 4y ago
I'm also a bit confused why that came up, considering he's head of transportation. Do they also concern themselves with manufacturing?
- munk-a 4y ago
  Biden's approval numbers are absolute garbage - I suspect he'll have a contested run in 2024 (or "voluntarily" decline to run) and all the sharks want to start getting their names in the headlines.
  - justbaker 4y ago
    Right now I don’t see any way he’ll run knowing he won’t win.
    - munk-a 4y ago
      Hubris is a hell of a drug.
- Mountain_Skies 4y ago
  He had previous in the last couple of days mentioned that him and his husband were unable to find formula for their baby so the question likely came up again since he already had spoken out on the matter. I don't know the context in which it came up days ago. Perhaps it was in a more open ended "get to know" type of interview he was doing.
thaumasiotes 4y ago
> “This is a capitalist country. The government does not make baby formula, nor should it. Companies make baby formula.” Singapore would disagree that government manufacture of baby formula represents socialism. The government can do what it wants without impairing the market. Where socialism comes in is when the government intervenes to protect its baby formula industry, by barring competitors from participating in the market or by subsidizing its own formula manufacture with tax revenues.

fabianhjr 4y ago

> If public spending is socialism It isn't, my comment is a jab on US politics and discourse; though neoliberalism and "minarchism" has corroded the existing infrastructure through "austerity" (money redirection towards forever wars and imperialism) and red-scare tactics.