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  • Nitro Express
    DIAMOND STATUS
    • Aug 2004
    • 32942

    #46
    Originally posted by vandeleur
    Or maybe looking at my post i am being naive , and actually what happened was what happens in the real world.
    And that is the very nature of a capitalist economy.
    When you visited the Soviet Union as a tourist you attended an orientation meeting. What you sat through was a very slick well presented indoctrination that capitalism eventually evolves into communism and so communism is the only system.

    Since the economy has tanked I have seen many people in the west seem to buy into what we were presented in the Soviet Union in 1978. Of course if you know the history of the red revolution, it's no secret it was sponsored by rich oligarchs behind the scenes. The same type people who have engineered the failing economies and the massive debts where the people's assets are being stolen to pay for. In the end, they hope to drive what was once a capitalistic system into an authoritarian system.

    Trust me. The average person in the US had it better under a regulated form of capitalism than where these central bankers want to take us. The highest standard of living in the world was built because average people were given the freedom to pursue their dreams. No form of central planning has even come close.

    Capitalism is not bad. Crony capitalism is bad. In the past when monopolies form there always was a group of politicians that would break the trusts. Today most the politicians don't seem to care about the people. Why? The people don't care. Most don't even know their rights as citizens and they are distracted by all manner of things. Once the politicians lose their fear of the citizens they do whatever they damn well please.

    When a huge amount of the population are bought off with government perks, they not only don't rock the boat, they support the slime balls. In other words, the politicians are bribing the public and the public love to the be bribed. Meanwhile the corporations become more powerful, pay less taxes if any, and what is left of the working class will be driven on the dole. The end result will be the corporate class and a bunch of dependent slaves at the mercy and whim of what the corporate class wants to do to them.

    People today in the US make the mistake of thinking capitalism has been a failure. No it hasn't. We don't have free market capitalism. We have fascism where the corporations have bribed enough politicians that the corporations are the government. It used to be We The People but now it's We The Corporations. So people think giving the government more power will solve things because the private sector is a failure. Wrong! The corporations are the government now and you just gave them not only more power over you, but now they have armed government agency thugs to bully you with.

    What we need to do is stop giving the government more and more power and stop taking the handouts. Then we need to organize and run the corrupt crooks out of office. That is the only thing that will change the nightmare we are in. Failure to do so means a very small number of people will own everything and you will be a slave after they tax everything away from you or just steal the money in your accounts.
    Last edited by Nitro Express; 04-15-2013, 03:47 AM.
    No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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    • Seshmeister
      ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

      • Oct 2003
      • 35750

      #47
      Originally posted by vandeleur
      Or maybe looking at my post i am being naive , and actually what happened was what happens in the real world.
      And that is the very nature of a capitalist economy.
      Seems to be what's happened in Russia where they jumped straight from communism to criminal.

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      • katina
        Commando
        • Mar 2012
        • 1469

        #48
        Originally posted by Seshmeister
        The big irony is Britain won the war but that meant we were stuck with the tyrant. Argentina losing helped you to get rid of yours.
        I remember very well those years, the bombings, killings and kidnapping by the left guerrilla terrorists......
        I understand your point of view.

        Back in 1983 I voted in democratic elections for the first time, and we all had hope for a better future, but we never stopped going backwards.

        I really wish we could have had a President with the determination and stubbornness that Margaret Thatcher had, to fight our rampant corruption.
        Now we are living our 10th. year of Kirchner government, and she is doing a lot of fuss about the Falkland´s issue, just to distract the public opinion from her daily ass-wiping with our Constitution. She even changed our history text books, now the Che Guevara is our national hero.

        I think Maggie said once: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
        Well, that´s exactly was is happening here now, a funny irony.

        Cristina F. de Kirchner wasn´t invited to Margaret Thatcher´s funeral, and I am glad for it.

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