Mcmaken    2     US is Already a Socialist Country 

• The New Deal programs that dominate US policy today is socialists ideas
• FDR was really careful and didn't show his ideas as socialist

Mcmaken   2-3   US is Already a Socialist Country 

• Marxism is not the only type of socialism, FDR ideas was a type of socialism 
• When the gorvenment interjected in the economy, we can say that's a social act

Mcmaken     3     US is Already a Socialist Country 

• socialism is not abotu revolutions; It was about using democratic gorvenment to regulate the capitalism in a fair way to the working class

Mcmaken     3     US is Already a Socialist Country 

• The New Deal propaganda was covering the socialism ideas inside the program, and  has been so effective that many socialists imagine that it was opposed to socialism 

Mcmaken     3     US is Already a Socialist Country 

• Most of the americans are in favor of those programs
• When asked what programs should be cut as part of budget negotiations in DC, 87 percent opposed cuts to social security

Mcmaken     4     US is Already a Socialist Country

• Many of these people are agaisnt the socialism, but a lot of them support the medicare and social security.
• They recognize those programs are socialist, but they said the programs "paid in"

Mcmaken     4-5     US is Already a Socialist Country

• A large portion of the federal budget goes to these social programs
• However socialism is not just about the economy, but is about the government too.

Mcmaken     5     US is Already a Socialist Country

• The biggest difference about the New Deal is that it took a unregulated economic system and imposed a big amount of new regulation on business owners
• When we talk about the minimum wage, that is the socialist goal from the 19th century, the majority of americans are for it

Mcmaken     6     US is Already a Socialist Country

• The results of the cash transfers, regultions, and manipulation of the tax code, the USA have expended a enormous amount on social programs
• The US spends more on redistribution of wealth than Australia, Canada, and Iceland

Mcmaken     6     US is Already a Socialist Country

• The fact is that the American government spending on the old-age benefits and health care is so immense in the US that by no measure could the US be deemed "not socialist" if we're calling Canada and Norway "socialist"