<p style="color:rgb(25,21,23);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">“Believing that certain forms of the state or certain forms of governing are socialist and certain forms are ‘free’ is erroneous and a bit ridiculous. All governing states are socialist by nature. The state by definition derives its control and power to enforce its monopoly by confiscating and redistributing the resources of its populace. It cannot survive without acting in this manner. While it may not directly control the ‘means of production’, to ensure its survival and growth it will control the necessary proportion of the product of those same productive means.

<p style="color:rgb(25,21,23);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">Attempting to try to ‘unsocialize’ the state is futile. One political party referring to the other as ‘socialist’ is hysterical. All politics that exist within the state monopoly are only variations on the question of who the wealth will come from and where it will go. This has always been the nature of the state.”

<p style="color:rgb(25,21,23);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/03/...socialist/

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<p style="color:rgb(25,21,23);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">Someone else saying what I've been trying to say but probably saying it better.

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Another misunderstanding: USAA is not and never was a government program. It's a private association started by military officers to self fund insurance coverage.

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato