A retired general calls the military’s benefits system the purest socialism in America.

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“It’s the purest application of socialism there is,” Wesley Clark, the retired four-star general, has said with a sense of irony. “It’s a really fair system, and a lot of thought has been put into it, and people respond to it really well.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 447

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