Steven;

No country or government is “perfect” and some systems have advantages for specific types of individuals. It is easy to define the negative, which is sometimes offset by positives. If you are not personally affected by government in any negative way then “life is good”.

I think of “capitalism” as a religion, which requires worship of money (any color or type of means of exchange will do), and typically capitalists are seen worshiping in banks and other institutions of that type. A small safe will do in a pinch.

The problem with any system of government is that "man is involved"!

Tom


>Hi Tracy,
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>>You don't have to sell me on the corruption in countries including our own. Israel is one of them of course.
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>So I guess all humans *are* equal after all. Haha. Even on the shadow-side of our behavior.
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>>You have a quite a bit of information there! It only goes to prove again that you cannot stereotype any people based on race, religion, creed, etc.
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>All of which we make up as we go along, of course.
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>> There are problems everywhere and we have only to look here at home to see that also. It's a shame of course, though because like all new countries, Israel had lofty goals when they started out...
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>Fair enough, but now who's gonna speak out favorably for the countries that chose un-lofty goals to start on? Just wanna keep things 'balanced', you see.
> :-)
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>Steven-
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