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10/06/2011 16:45:01
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
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>>All that you say is true, but the "Socialism" is unsustainable and will cause the collapse of all nations practicing it at some point due to the fact that they will run out of other people's money.

Socialism itself hasn't really worked anywhere, but people keep applying the "Socialist" term to various policies they disagree with, to prove those policies are no good. It's not a valid argument. For example, the major European Capitalist economies all enjoy what some would label "Socialist" policies while still promoting democracy and enjoyment of fruits of labors: according to some measures their quality of care is accelerating away from yours and while it is easy for Fox and others to damn them for eating their bread with the butter side down, their quality of life is pretty good and employed people have enough disposable outcome to pay far higher prices for restaurant meals etc than you pay in the US.

>>Our nation, the United States of America, in my opinion, will collapse economically; it almost seems as if his highness, Obama, desires this outcome. While Americans are tightening their belts, his family goes on one luxurious vacation after another with large entourages when going overseas. George Washington would be appalled.

Perhaps it would be better to focus on the vacations taken by people who profited most from this mess- for example, check out the Health Insurance Mandarin who scooped a billion $ on retirement. Yep, a billion $. Had that $ been invested for future healthcare needs rather than scooped, it would grow to 2 billion, then 5 billion, and by the time those who paid that money reached retirement there would be more than enough to pay for their healthcare without asking the taxpayer for a bean. Compared to this, vacations for Obama may be distasteful to some but aren't significant in the greater picture.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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