So what is so wrong with Socialism?

[billvon 2,772]

>Uhm, are we talking the same Tea Party?

I know, right? It's bizarre that a party that was named after an act of vandalism would have anything to do with vandalism. It would be like finding out that the New York Al Qaeda Cell had connections to Al Qaeda.

>Haven't seen or heard of any behavior like this from Tea Party people.

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IVY, Va. — The authorities here confirmed Thursday that a gas line had been deliberately cut at the home of a brother of a Democratic congressman who voted for the health care bill, making it potentially the most dangerous of many acts of violence and threats against supporters of the bill in the last week.

The house had been mistakenly listed on the blog of a Tea Party activist as the home of the congressman, Tom Perriello, a first-term Democrat representing southern Virginia. But the damage that took place on Tuesday was no blunder, the authorities said.

“We do now believe that it was a deliberate act of vandalism and that the supply hose was intentionally cut,” said Lee Catlin, a spokeswoman for Albemarle County.
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"So, if you wish to send a message that Pelosi and her party cannot fail to hear, break their windows. Break them NOW. Break them and run to break again. Break them under cover of night. Break them in broad daylight. Break them and await arrest in willful, principled civil disobedience. Break them with rocks. Break them with slingshots. Break them with baseball bats. But BREAK THEM." - Mike Vanderboegh, Tea Party activist (who, BTW, gets $1300 in government disability every month.)
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TPM, March 21, 2010:
Windows were broken across the country, at Rep. Gabrielle Gifford's Tucson office, Rep. Louise Slaughter's district office, and Democratic Party offices in Ohio, western New York and Kansas.
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WaPo, March 25 2010:
In Wichita, someone broke the window of a county Democratic Party headquarters with a brick that had "No to Obama" and "No ObamyCare" written on it. Lyndsey Stauble, executive director of the Sedgwick County Democratic Party, said she went to work Saturday morning to clean up the shattered glass around her desk.
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[StreetScooby 5]

Ok. You were making it sound like Tea Party mob violence.

We are all engines of karma

[mnealtx 0]

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Tea Partyers will be the ones throwing bricks through his windows.

Uhm, are we talking the same Tea Party? Haven't seen or heard of any behavior like this from Tea Party people.

Real life vs. lefty stereotype....what did you expect?

Don't recall hearing of any TEA partiers being arrested, but I saw something about several hundred arrests so far among the occu-poopers.

Mike
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[lawrocket 3]

There are plenty of outliers on either side, Mike. There are those Tea Party activists who stoop to violence and vandalism to show their anger, just like there are Occupiers who do the same thing.

Neither is representative of the whole.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

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There are plenty of outliers on either side, Mike. There are those Tea Party activists who stoop to violence and vandalism to show their anger, just like there are Occupiers who do the same thing.

Neither is representative of the whole.

I don't disagree with that...but there *has* been more violence from the Left than the Right at these various rallies.

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[DesertAttorney 0]

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Me, I prefer true Communism.

True Communism would produce a Utopia on Earth, IMO.

But how about in the mean time socialism?

Kinda' a Communism "lite".

Either of these economic/political structures would be better than capitalism or the Facism that is the current political/economic system of America .

What say you?

I say you should book a one-way ticket from Beijing or Bangkok to Pyongyang on Air Koryo and request political asylum. You'll see a Communist/Socialist system in action.

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Me, I prefer true Communism.

True Communism would produce a Utopia on Earth, IMO.

But how about in the mean time socialism?

Kinda' a Communism "lite".

Either of these economic/political structures would be better than capitalism or the Facism that is the current political/economic system of America .

What say you?

Aaand, as others have said here, Communism and Socialism remove any incentive to produce, as the State takes any benefit for working harder than your neighbor. It's insulting to pay a Doctor the same as a Fry Cook.

What is the incentive to bust one's hump to become a Doctor if you're not going to earn more than some schmuck with the intelligence of a gerbil who has done nothing to better himself?

Marx and his ilk failed to understand the most basic concepts of human nature...

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***What is the incentive to bust one's hump to become a Doctor if you're not going to earn more than some schmuck with the intelligence of a gerbil who has done nothing to better himself?

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"The intelligence of a gerbil"?

That guy might be pretty good at cleaning paper off the street or servicing your wife!

The incentive is that every person is able to fill the position in life which best suits them.

If you have the calling of a healer then your education in that vocation is provided by the people.

If your capabilities are best suited to dropping fries ,well then that is what you'll be doing.

In either case you will have everything you need and this false sense of shortage to up prices will be eliminated.

I know that last statement is hard for you to swallow but the fact is that there is plenty for everyone.
Capitalism is dependant on shortages.

Believe in the abundance of the Universe!

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Me, I prefer true Communism.

True Communism would produce a Utopia on Earth, IMO.

But how about in the mean time socialism?

Kinda' a Communism "lite".

Either of these economic/political structures would be better than capitalism or the Facism that is the current political/economic system of America .

What say you?

***You don't have a job, do you?

You,"Trafficdiver" . you are spot on!!!
I don't have a "job".
I have a profession.

Peace.
"Treetop" a.k.a. LORD OF THE SKY

[timmyfritz 0]

[I say you should book a one-way ticket from Beijing or Bangkok to Pyongyang on Air Koryo and request political asylum. You'll see a Communist/Socialist system in action.

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I believe that all Men are born equal in their potential.

It is all about Humanism, isn't it?

Humanism sounds better than Socialism and Communism. Much easier to sell it to college students in a Sociology 101 class. It is still lacking in liberty.

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

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do you know that Communism and socialism are different beasts? Completely different political structures?

The Soviet Socialist Republics was Communist. I suppose that doesn't count because they weren't living up to some ideal communist definition.

Are you the treetop lord of the sky that was running for USPA director almost 10 years ago, campaigning on rec.skydiving?

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

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I have a profession.

Cleaning your moms house so you can live rent free in the basement hardly counts as a profession.

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I have a profession.

Cleaning your moms house so you can live rent free in the basement hardly counts as a profession.

!!! LOL!

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I believe that all Men are born equal in their potential.

It is all about Humanism, isn't it?

Humanism sounds better than Socialism and Communism. Much easier to sell it to college students in a Sociology 101 class. It is still lacking in liberty.

Humanism is a good term.
I refer to it as "Humanomics".
Liberty is preserved .
Each individual always retains their Right to Free Will

Peace

"Treetop" a.k.a. LORD OF THE SKY

[davidgrant 0]

***Are you the treetop lord of the sky that was running for USPA director almost 10 years ago, campaigning on rec.skydiving?

[davidgrant 0]

***Fair point, other than the criminality of the bankers. The bankers were trying to implement what the government was requiring them to do, and trying to make a living along the way.

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You seem like an intelligent guy.
Are you aware that the bankers were bundling the same mortgage 20 times or more into different Mortgage Backed Securities and then selling them ?
That is fraud and fraud is criminal.

Perhaps they imagined that fractional reserve extended into this instument.

Peace

"Treetop" a.k.a. LORD OF THE SKY

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[lawrocket 3]

So, um, timmy - show me a communist system that worked. You knoiw what happens in communist systems? To work they have to stop people from getting out.

"But lawrocket" you may say. "Commubism has never been tried. No system of communism has ever actually existed." To which I say, "bingo!" Over 100 years and nobody's been able to even get to it because after revolution comes despotism. Then the despot needs to step down.

Yeah, after Castro led the overthrow and was the leader he said to himself, "Fidel - time to end my lead and go work the cane fields like everyone else." Stalin? Mao?

Why are you a communist? Because you don't see yourself being assigned the job of unclogging sewers. Of picking lettuce. Of digging canals. There's no such thing as a communist who pictures himself or herself doing what 99.9% of people living under communism do. They picture themselves in some cushy spot.

Ask Cubans living in squalor in Miami. And how grateful they aee for that squalor.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[billvon 2,772]

And your one warning. Cut it out.

[StreetScooby 5]

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Are you aware that the bankers were bundling the same mortgage 20 times or more into different Mortgage Backed Securities and then selling them ?
That is fraud and fraud is criminal.

Yes, they were doing that with certain types of CDOs and related products. Were the people buying them aware of that? Some were. In simple terms, those products were types of insurance. Sleazy, yes, criminal, I don't think so.

We are all engines of karma

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I believe that all Men are born equal in their potential.

This is demonstratively false.

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How about Mike Vick with the Philadelphia Eagles?
He's got that contract.

You can't see how Vick's contract is an example of Capitalism??????