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Re: Election '08 [message #309418 is a reply to message #309404] Wed, 09 January 2008 20:15 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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cheesesoda wrote on Wed, 09 January 2008 17:58

Government controlling the economy IS violating individual rights.


I'm sorry you feel that way.

cheesesoda wrote on Wed, 09 January 2008 17:58

I hate government kicking money to corporations and huge tax breaks to them, as well.


Somehow, I doubt this will be a problem under communism.

cheesesoda wrote on Wed, 09 January 2008 17:58

I hate the fact that our government plays even any part in our economy.


I hate people who drive the speed limit on the freeway. What's your point?

cheesesoda wrote on Wed, 09 January 2008 17:58

especially the part where they create inflation by printing off new money. The government is our own worst nightmare when it comes to the economy.


So the sollution is lazie-faire capitalism? Revolutions have been fought and empires toppled over capitalism gone wrong. I don't know how people can still support it at all.

cheesesoda wrote on Wed, 09 January 2008 17:58

They were in an arms race against America. It was the government's incentive to be the biggest world super power. Without this arms race and national competition, the advances would have been trivial.


I don't see how launching people into space helps with the arms race. Don't get started about orbital weapons. It's a good fifty years later and we still don't have any of those.

GoArmy44 wrote on Wed, 09 January 2008 18:33

I never said anything about the Communist Manifesto. But taking people's property just because they are "bourgeois" does have a unethical taste to it.

I was talking about communist regimes such as the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cambodia, Cuba, etc, setc...that have what seems like a fraction of the civil liberties and property rights that we nonchalantly enjoy here in the U.S.


Then clearly we're talking about two different things. You're talking about "Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cambodia, Cuba, etc," and I'm talking about Communism.

GoArmy44 wrote on Wed, 09 January 2008 18:33

Thats true, but isn't it the United States who landed on the moon?


Depends on who you talk to.


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