"Regulation of business and promotion of infrastructure is not, in fact, the international socialism today’s Republicans claim. According to Abraham Lincoln, who first articulated the principles of the Republican Party, and under whom the party invented the American income tax, the 'legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves---in their separate, and individual capacities.' Those things included, he wrote, 'public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself.'"

When will Republicans -- and Democrats alike -- learn the definition of socialism?! I find it so disconcerting that so many in the US are incapable of making an effort to truly understanding this socio-economic theory. Thank you, Heather, for bringing this issue to the fore.