Rick Perry, Health Care & the Texas Governor's Race

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I'm wondering what it's going to take for my former colleagues in the Texas press corps to call out Rick Perry for using the term "socialism" over-and-over to describe the insurance reform Congress passed last week.

Either Perry and reporters covering him don't know what socialism is (and I doubt that), or Perry again is pushing Tea Bag propaganda, and the press is too lazy or too intimidated to challenge it.

I'm used to Perry embarrassing Texas. So, I'm not surprised he's parroting Dolph Briscoe's old obsession with "creeping socialism." Thankfully, we've moved beyond the 1970s, though you wouldn't know it from the Cold War rhetoric in a statement Perry released last Sunday and sound bites he repeated later in the week.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-cutbirth/a-socialist-primer-rick-p_b_515883.html

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1. Perry is just stupid

Socialism, for anyone who slept through 11th grade, is an economic system where the means of production are owned either by the government or directly by the workers. The Socialist Party USA actually opposed the reform bill because it does just the opposite.