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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts) Sat Feb 27, 2016, 12:56 AM Feb 2016

dubya sent government check to U.S. citizens once, isn't that Socialism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Stimulus_Act_of_2008

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dubya sent government check to U.S. citizens once, isn't that Socialism? (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Feb 2016 OP

No. WillowTree Feb 2016 #1

that was a bribe Skittles Feb 2016 #2

Crumbs for the masses... N/t tokenlib Feb 2016 #4

He did a $2 trillion socialist bailout of the banks! KelleyKramer Feb 2016 #3

I'm a card carrying safeinOhio Feb 2016 #5

WillowTree

(5,325 posts)

1. No.

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Sat Feb 27, 2016, 01:07 AM

Feb 2016

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism

Skittles

(153,174 posts)

2. that was a bribe

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Sat Feb 27, 2016, 02:37 AM

Feb 2016

gawd, the greed and idiocy of people who fell for that tactic ended up costing us all BIG TIME - heck, we are STILL paying for it

tokenlib

(4,186 posts)

4. Crumbs for the masses... N/t

Reply to Skittles (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 27, 2016, 04:33 AM

Feb 2016

KelleyKramer

(8,980 posts)

3. He did a $2 trillion socialist bailout of the banks!

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Sat Feb 27, 2016, 04:28 AM

Feb 2016

If you are trying to make the case that Bush did something socialist. ...

With his socialist bailout of the banks... you could make a good argument that George Bush is the biggest socialist in the history of the world !

safeinOhio

(32,713 posts)

5. I'm a card carrying

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Sat Feb 27, 2016, 05:00 AM

Feb 2016

Socialist Security member.

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