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This also amazes me too. The US has neither a working, efficient health care nor education system, but blames others for "socialism"?

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Not sure about the health care system, but the non-socialist portion of the US education system is the best in the world, and only the socialist portion of it is terrible. I find those to be reasonable grounds to dislike socialism.

Major public universities in the United States, known world-over for their excellence:

* University of California, Berkeley

* University of Washington, Seattle

* University of Massachusetts, Amherst

* Texas A&M

* University of Wisconsin, Madison

Shall I go on?

To call any of those "socialist", when the paid-by-the-student cost has skyrocketed and the paid-by-the-government cost has plummeted, is a bit of a stretch.

Fair point, but they were world-class universities when the government subsidized them, too. There's no inverse correlation between government support of a university and academic quality, being my point.

Agreed, and I think KaoruAoiShiho's original "socialist" comment was about K-12 anyway.

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