Bring on the Socialism

Obama, Obama, Barack Hussein Obama. What does his name bring to mind? Those triple-colored posters and t-shirts bearing his face and the words "change" or "hope?" Well, perhaps a year ago. But this year, almost everybody will think of a certain buzzword that seems to pop up all over him. "Socialist." And did that word ever pop up today in class.

The point of having a government at all is to keep things in order. We're in the middle of a post-Bush recession. Would you consider that to be order? What Obama is trying to do, or at least what he says he's trying to do, is help. He wants to bring health to the people of America who cannot afford it based on the mediocre system we use now. He wants to tax the ones who won't be hurt by the taxing. If help and duty requires a change in government that leans towards Socialism, so be it.  So long as we hold to the values of our forefathers when it counts the most, why should it matter if others can improve their lifestyles?

I understand that Socialism and America should not mix, if possible. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and preferably ones that happen before all hell breaks loose rather than after.

So why do people protest? Can they not see that without some form of revision to our current government, things will continue on as they have? And if things continue on as they have, America is doomed to spiral down. A government must grow with its country, as must the people.

Are you willing to step down off the pedestal of Capitalism and allow Socialism to help out? Is America willing to give up the tiniest portion of its pride for the free-standing economy that has developed in return for a better community? You tell me, because frankly, I have no idea.