Those annoying ads from Thomas Peterffy.

During the presidential election campaign, we were bombarded by ads from billionaire Thomas Peterffy telling us how bad things were in the socialist country of Hungary where he was born, and how we had to get Mitt Romney into office because along with making the rich poorer, socialism would make poor poorer as well.  He allegedly spent eight million dollars of his own money on this message, which I am sure was chump-change for him.

The only problem is that Hungary did not really have a socialist system.  They were under control by a Soviet military dictatorship pretending to be communism. 

Peterffy fails to mention in his ads the success of Norway's socialist democracy, and that Norwegians enjoy a better standard of living than Americans do. 

What I really would like to see is a study of Scandinavian socialist countries and what makes it work for them, and why can't we make socialism work in the United States.  The corporate controlled media seems to steer clear of this topic.  There also doesn't appear to be any American based academics interested in this topic.  I think Norway's socialist policies could be applied to the United States, and our employment situation and quality of life would improve greatly.

Of course Thomas Peterffy is only interested in hanging on to his billions, and not interested in helping the masses.  For the wealthy there is no common good.  Common is bad, and only rich is good. 

There is also the problem that President Obama's policies are far from socialist which probably helped get him re-elected.

Don't worry Thomas Peterffy you will have plenty of money for the rest of your life.  Instead of warning Americans about how bad socialism is, why don't you go back to Hungary and straighten things out there.  I think they could use your help, once the Soviets withdrew from Hungary things only got worse economy-wise for them.  I am sure that you could show them just how great the capitalist system is and how it can work for them.  Good luck.

Is it one party time?

If you  are like me, you have Republican friends who are still in a state of shock, still sitting or standing around with their mouths open.  They were sure that President Obama was going to be another one-term wonder like Jimmy Carter, absolutely sure.  How could the American people not see what a mess President Obama's evil socialist agenda has made of their country? Of course it had nothing to do with George W. Bush's economic agenda that brought the economy down shortly before President Obama took office in 2008.

Well, the American people are not that stupid after all, but there are enough pockets of stupid people around to allow for the Republicans to retain control of the House of Representatives, you can't win them all.  And of course, they still have the agenda of not taxing the wealthy under any circumstances, another battle looms over this issue and I hope Preisdent Obama will be able to make some headway on this problem over the next four years, but I am doubtful.

Your Republican friends are probably also, saying stuff like, "Well, I guess we are going to have a one party system now, only Democrats, the GOP is kaputsky!"   I was surprised to hear this from a couple of different friends on a couple of occasions, therefore I am wondering if they are quoting someone else from Fox News or another right-wing media source. 

You can respond to this statement by saying that there is plenty of room for two parties, there will be the Democrats as always, and new Socialist party, won't that be great?  Then watch your Republican friends' faces go beet red with anger.

This of course will be a hollow victory for us if President Obama cannot now turn the  tide and get the rich to pay their fair share of taxes and regulate a more fair system of trade in order to turn the American economy around. And then if Obama fails, your Republican friends are going to turn to you and say,"See, I told you so...."