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• Puddy Tat

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  3 months ago

  "Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export.... Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea -- in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders."
  Thomas Sowell
• motorhead

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  3 months ago

  “Money rules. Especially in strip clubs. Those that can't compete eat shit"
  
  —TwoSheds (circa 2010)
• CJKent_band

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  3 months ago

  "Capitalism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
  
  Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, Capitalism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export....
  
  Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, Capitalism remains an attractive idea -- in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders."
  
  ~ Thomas Sowell
  
  Fixed That For You People
• Puddy Tat

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  3 months ago

  "Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."
  - Thomas Sowell
• CJKent_band

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  3 months ago

  “Capitalism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
  
  Fixed That For You People
• mogul1985

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  3 months ago

  ^ OK, I'll bite: Where has Capitalism failed?
  
  Post WWII Germany's economy was controlled by the Marshall Plan, severe control, not unlike Socialism. It wasn't until The Marshall Plan backed down that Germany started to recover. Today, it is the 3rd Largest Economy.
  
  If you go to a restaurant and have a few bad meals, you stop going. You don't tell the chef to change.
  
  If you go to a strip club and have a crappy experience, you don't go back.
  
  ObamaCare was supposed to let us keep our doctor and save $2,500 a year. Yeah, right. ACA was sold to us on a lies based on the stupidity of the American voter" per Jonathan Gruber, one of the architects along with SCJ Kagan. In 2011, Gruber also did Vermont's Single Payer that was a massive economic failure.
  
  "Medicare For All" would be "Medicaid for All" - highly regulated and rationed like other countries. "Medicaid For All" would run $4.4T/year, and we all know that is the low figure. We'd get shitty doctors as they'd move to other fields. Not everyone needed ObamaCare (ACA - Affordable Care ACT" was designed to inflict as much pain to force people to accept "Single Payer" - Medicaid.) Gov't treated us like making Goose liver pate foie gras - jammed down our throats.
  
  Now, socialism is being Goosed on us. LOOK, France (aside from the language) UK and Canada are great as that is clearly what you want from your gov't. FUCKING MOVE! Don't force this country that is Center-Right into socialism. Just MOVE THE FUCK OUT!
• CJKent_band

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  3 months ago

  "We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice.
  
  The UNDENIABLE fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and poor peasants of any color and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor — both black and white, AND EVERY COLOR, here and abroad."
• CJKent_band

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  3 months ago

  “The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us.
  
  Money is the curse of mankind.
  
  It smothers the seed of everything great and good.
  
  Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.”
• mogul1985

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  3 months ago

  ^ Again, Canada is calling. I have no idea what you are trying to force on us. Even Sweden is backing away from Socialism.
• CJKent_band

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  3 months ago

  ^
  My country, right or wrong;
  
  if right, to be kept right;
  
  and if wrong, to be set right.
• CJKent_band

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  3 months ago

  “Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed.
  
  And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
  
  ... But if you will not obey these words, I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.”