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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    The OP may be broken but Capitalism, the goose that has laid the golden egg for more than two centuries, is not. It’s booming.
    For 1%!
    Tie Your 'roo down Mate

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    Quote Originally Posted by Into the Night View Post
    Capitalism is not about rewarding hard work. It is about rewarding productive work.
    Health care is capitalist. New procedures, new equipment, cheaper procedures, better access, etc. all come from that.
    Health insurance, however, is socialist. It is a form of fascism run by government oligarchies that have no clue what procedure is needed or when, or what new procedures are available.

    Prison is a government function. It is not socialism. It is law enforcement.

    Education is not a government job. It is fascism by oligarchy.

    Capitalism needs no regulation. It functions without any government at all. It brought civilization out the wilderness when there was no government. It is capitalism that built the cities and the wealth. Socialism does not create wealth. It only steals it.
    Slavery is not capitalism. It is theft of wealth.

    Capitalism allows one to pass their wealth to their children. Seizing that wealth by government is theft.

    The price of your wages is set by the free market and price discovery. If you want to be better paid, make yourself worth something more to somebody. Get or increase your skills, study under another master at his craft, anything. The opportunity is there for those that want to take advantage of it.
    You're claiming the health insurance companies are "socialist" ?
    Tie Your 'roo down Mate

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    Quote Originally Posted by Into the Night View Post
    I beg to differ. The pioneers heading out into the wilderness saw pure capitalism. They are, after all, the ones that tamed the west and built the farms, ranches, cities, and riches of the West. It is they that brought civilization out of the wilderness, and as recently as the 1880's.
    Okay, 140 years; almost two decades.
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    Unless you just can't stand the idea of "ni**ers" teaching white kids.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    I keep being shocked by how many people in America, the land of opportunity, are both idiots and wealthy while so many intelligent people are middle class or struggling financially. Our system does not reward hard work and intelligence as much as it rewards you for who your parents were.


    I believe in a healthy mix of the best ideas from Capitalism and Socialism. In other words a well regulated Capitalist system, with some segments, like Health Care, Electricity, Prison, Education more strongly socialist than other segments.

    Pure Capitalism is as bad as pure Socialism, neither works.
    As bad? That's airbrushing a century of mass murder, famine, pandemics, and economic misery.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    Yes it's terrible that a country rewards ambulance chasers so much!
    and your claim to fame is pimping a thai sex worker
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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    and your claim to fame is pimping a thai sex worker
    at least it doesn't involve violating an oath to uphold the law, ya traitorous, anti-human fuckstick.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Miss Margot Frank View Post
    For 1%!
    Nope. For anyone that wants to partake of it. Go into business. Open a donut shop...anything. Create a new invention. Improve an existing one. Provide a service that someone wants. That's all capitalism. It is the only system that creates wealth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Miss Margot Frank View Post
    You're claiming the health insurance companies are "socialist" ?
    Obamacare is. So is Medicare. So is the heavy hand of government upon the health insurance companies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Truth Detector View Post
    Okay, 140 years; almost two decades.
    Heh. Well met.

    Today, pure capitalism does exist for some. It is the black market. That local drug dealer on the corner knows all about it. There is no government regulation that can stop it. The free market is immortal. You can't kill it. One one form or another, it WILL still be there.
    For the rest of us schmucks, we try to abide by all the laws (including the oligarchies). There comes a point, however, when turning to the black market is necessary just to survive. We all become criminals in our own country. At that point, the government of the United States will have effectively fallen, for it will no longer recognize the Constitution which defines and empowers it.

    This is the current state of the SOTC. The constitution of the State of California is no longer in effect, and the Constitution of the United States is no longer recognized by the government in Sacramento. The black market is quite active there for everything from toilets to guns to drugs to light bulbs to ammunition to explosives to freon.

    And the people of the SOTC keep supporting these idiots and putting them in power.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Into the Night View Post
    Obamacare is. So is Medicare. So is the heavy hand of government upon the health insurance companies.
    Define "Obamacare"
    Tie Your 'roo down Mate

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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    at least it doesn't involve violating an oath to uphold the law, ya traitorous, anti-human fuckstick.
    I have the racist Misrahi Jew on ignore, it's good that people are finally waking up to his bullshit!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Miss Margot Frank View Post
    Great post
    The ironic thing is that China and Vietnam are probably more Capitalist than the USA. Go to Saigon and see if you can find any Communists!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    The ironic thing is that China and Vietnam are probably more Capitalist than the USA. Go to Saigon and see if you can find any Communists!
    Why would I go to China?There's a Chinese restaurant down the street!
    As for Vietnam,I had a chance to go in '69,but didn't pass the physical.
    Tie Your 'roo down Mate

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    Quote Originally Posted by Miss Margot Frank View Post
    Define "Obamacare"
    The oligarchy over health insurance companies and the establishment of a nationalized health insurance program, established by a bill supported and signed into law by President Obama. The program is currently in the process of collapsing. Several sections of it have been repealed or overturned by the courts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    The ironic thing is that China and Vietnam are probably more Capitalist than the USA. Go to Saigon and see if you can find any Communists!
    China is not, much of South Vietnam is.

    Socialism isn't just the form called 'communism'. It's other prevalent form is 'fascism', which is on the road to communism.

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