Is America a "socialist country" yet?

If we are not yet, we are certainly getting there. When the white house begins banning conservative networks from coverage to the point that even the liberal networks step in on behalf of all news organizations, seems even they are starting to see where this is going. I can't name one organization that the government has run efficiently. Look at medicare. What a mess. What about these great bail outs? Yikes!

My parents immigrated from communist Russia and remember it all two well. It would be very funny to watch my mom cringe when she hears the little school children sing their hail to Obama if it were not so damn frightening.

We are very close, but I don't know if people are waking up from their sleep finally and taking notice, but I think there is definately a change in the making. People are showing they don't like the health care that Obama is trying to push through. If we make the  mistake, then let us keep paying our own insurance as we are now.I don't feel that I can afford anyone elses at this point.When everyone that gets all their health care paid for by the taxpayers have to use the same doctors and hospitals that the common person (us) have to then I might(might,I say) rethink by views. Untill I am being bull headed about this.

When we stop being responsible for ourselves and depend on the government from cradle to grave we certainly take the risk of being enslaved by others' ideas as to what is good for us and our families. Remember--"I'm from the government and I'm here to help you!" Time after time and program after program, the government has demonstrated it's inability to run anything better than private enterprise. I would suggest that where we find problems on Wall Street it is all of the goverment's doing and it's allowing those "special people" who have supported the political system to run amuck. Term limits is the only answer and we need to wake up before it is too late. Serving in public office was never meant to be a lifelong career.

Exactly which of these questions do you want answered?  Most of us have a tendency to get all worked up emotionally about these issues-- usually based on our particular brainwashing by our family, business associates, etc. over the years.

But if we sit down and think it through, we can get to the principles involved. Your general question is not simple and can't be answered by a slogan. You need to define what you mean by "socialism" before you can start to look for an answer-- but you won't take the trouble.  You're not interested in a real answer.

Not even close!  Every other advanced country has universal health care, which hardly makes them socialistic.  Health, like the post office, schools, roads, the FBI, etc., are too important to leave to the unstable private industry.  When private industry can't cope in important things, that is when the government steps in and runs things in a reliable and efficient manner.  Government has been demonized by people like yourself, and it is a huge mistake.  Obama has not made a dent in private industry.