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THOM HARTMANN: I believe in a regulated capitalist economy and a democratic socialist government, which is pretty much what we had from the 1940s until the 1980s.

(after a caller says this country wasn’t intended to be democratic-socialist) Sure it was. We have a military, we have a post office, we have, we have educational systems. George Washington signed the first law that provided for housing, food, and clothing for poor people in Washington, D.C. We’ve been a socialist government from the founding of the republic.