"insert alias here", Your statements are so absurd as to hardly warrant a response, but...

(1) My concerns are about society as a whole, not my own selfish interests. If that was all I cared about I could be making a whole lot more money somewhere else, such as screwing people over in some corporation in the private sector. I decided at a young age to fight the injustices in this society rather than be part of them or promote them as you are doing.

Taking care of the disabled, elderly, and dying is hardly a selfish concern. Nor is the demand that all workers get a living wage. Selfishness is no more a motivation than it would be if I were trying to stop the test of an atomic weapon on Santa Cruz. Yes, there would be self-interest, but no, it would not be selfish.

(2) We live under a capitalist government, not a socialist one. This capitalist government prioritizes spending on war, prisons, and police over meeting human needs. This spending is far greater than what they spend on social services. In addition this is spending that has a negative social impact, but creates large profits for corporations and the capitalists that own them.

A socialist economy is one that nationalizes the corporations and uses the wealth of society, wealth created by the labor of workers, to meet the human and environmental needs of the people and planet.

To learn about socialism visit two other groups I am active in:

Liberation News, For the Workers Democracy Party (USA)
groups.yahoo.com/group/Liberation_News/

Workers Democracy International
groups.yahoo.com/group/Workers_Democracy/