Comments by "" (@1965ace) on "Motherboard" channel.

  1. Socialism fails every time it's tried, unfortunately America is deteriorating into socialism. People claim it's capitalism that's failing but the more socialism creeps in the less successful America is. 
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  2. Fezz They are going down the tubes as we speak.Communism and socialism have a number of things in common not the least of which is robbing the individual of freedom for some grand social experiment that benefits the few who run the show on the backs of the rest. 
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  3. MET-TECH LLC Consumers pay ALL corporate taxes. So if you raise taxes on oil the poor man filling his tank pays , if you raise taxes on WalMart the single mother pays more for food and clothing. Does that sound unfair?????? Who would you enslave to get your oil and WalMart goods from, because it takes people and organizations of people (corporations) to voluntarily do the work to bring consumers competitive prices on the things they need.   Capitalism is good, crony capitalism is what WE have and it's not good. Government control is at an all time high and things keep getting less affordable and less efficient. The Idiots took over our Health Care and can't even run a website. obamacare is so inept they can't run a website, you can't keep your doctor and you didn't save anything. My plan was cancelled , my doctor and clinic left town and my current benefits are much less. Yes some people will benefit but it's only because government throws money at them to subsidize their welfare healthcare.  You talk about the progressive tax structure burdening the lower class, LIES. Almost all the people I know in the lower middle class not only DON'T PAY INCOME TAXES but they get money back called EIC. My guess if your young and haven't had many tax returns yet. I am upper middle class and I've paid up to $60k a year on taxes , I own a business and the last thing I want is any help from the worthless incompetent wasteful government.  Don't think government is too big ? Start with paying your share of the 17 trillion dollar debt. Try critical thinking instead of regurgitating emotional non-logic. 
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  4. Tahuan Tinsuyo If your definition of success is oppressing the gifted and motivated in society and rewarding the the lazy and ignorant then I understand your confusion. 
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  5. Tahuan Tinsuyo One of my very best friends is Cuban and he managed to escape with his life. He has crohns disease and would be dead if he stayed in communist Cuba.  The qualifications for doctors an lawyers in third world poor countries are much lower. 
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  6. Tahuan Tinsuyo I don't know what hole you live in but I'm a free American who doesn't live  150 years in the past. My Latino and Black neighbors are just as happy to live in this country as I am, with the same rights and opportunities that I have. You are a hater with bad information. My Cuban friend runs his own very successful business. No one here has slaves or wants them we are free to participate in a free market that benefits every individual and if some get wealthy we admire them and seek to be like them. Only small minded weak people seek to take away from others instead of making their own fortune. 
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  7. Tahuan Tinsuyo I beg to differ did you see the elections last night ? It was a blowout against the socialist crony capitalist obama administration. Your baseless accusations are a result of desperation for a failed ideology not based in truth.
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  8. Tahuan Tinsuyo Ok now you have proven you're a genuine idiot nutcase. nazi ? do you even know the connection to the palistinians?Do you know nazi means national socialist party ??? which is what your defending . hitler was a left wing socialist employing a fascist methodology. you have been filled with shit that isn't true but it would take a thinking person to know he's been fooled. 
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  9. Tahuan Tinsuyo Racist ? You are so unintelligent you don't know the difference between a race and a country. I told you my friend Jamlec is Cuban and he would be dead if he had stayed in Cuba . 
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  10. Tahuan Tinsuyo That doesn't excuse your obvious hypocrisy . National liberation from what ? The answer is of course oppressive national governments, like Communist Cuba. 
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  11. Tahuan Tinsuyo You must a miserable punk accusing all those around you for your complete failure as a human being . No one buys the whole zionist BS , there are people who succeed, the majority of society who benefits from that success and those whiney losers who are jealous. The worst thing about socialism is the cap on success ! Your neomarxist goblety goo only makes sense to the weak minded. 
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  12. Elem Oki Me too I think he'd make a great alternative to another clinton or bush. 
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  13. Elem Oki Ironically you are somewhat correct . Fascism is a problem, but it's a methodology to bring about the socialism most Americans reject.  A lot of people think the nazis were right wing extremists , that is false. They attribute fascism with being right wing, fascism is a methodology used by both right and left wing forms of government. Nazi means national socialist party , definitely a left wing extremist organization.  I think you need to look at two other words to see the damage being created , statist and corporatist. 
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  14. You got to ask yourself "if Cuba is so wonderful why are people risking their lives to come to America and escape Cuba ?".
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  15. FFWD late 2013 DJI Phantom 2 Vision , a high quality low cost unit with built in High Rez FPV camera for the public !!!! 
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  16. G mers Like Greece ? How's that euro working out ? My friends in the UK spend much more time working for the government (taxes) than for themselves. 
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  17. 7h3647h32in6 Do you know what he Fed is?  Yes, the Fed can and will raise interest rates on the national debt. 
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  18. V8PORS My best friend is Cuban and now a US Citizen, he can tell you all about poverty and the prison called Cuba. 
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  19. Tahuan Tinsuyo A traitor to a commuist prison LOL !!!
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  20. V8PORS He must have been a big looser !!! 
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  21. V8PORS Concise and to the point, my friend has a successful business that he is very proud of and would never move back to Cuba. 
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  22. 7h3647h32in6 None of what I said was dishonest if you can read and understand. Also you are ASSUMING interest rates will stay ultra low as they have been (history says no). The United states will collapse at a point when it works out for the rest of the world. We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world driving business away and much more regulation of business than most parts of the world also driving business and investment away.      History proves you wrong. Free Market Capitalism made the US the the strongest nation the world has ever known. The more socialistic (crony capitalism) we get the less power we have. To quote a famous saying " The problem with socialism is sooner or later you run out of other peoples money". 
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  23. V8PORS And Cuba isn't a "dictatorship in which a small inner circle have control of the national resources." of course.......
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  24. Tahuan Tinsuyo So what if it's a "dictatorship in which a small inner circle have control of the national resources." 
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  25. Tahuan Tinsuyo I'm just saying it's better here than in a communist prison. Let's not forget the worthless government that bailed wall street out !
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  26. V8PORS So explain all the people risking their lives to escape to America. 
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  27. Tahuan Tinsuyo Ill take that as an admission. 
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  28. Kim Il-sung Those are tried and convicted criminals. North Korea / Cuba has in-prisoned the entire population of their citizens. 
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  29. V8PORS ITS A PRISON, PLAIN AND SIMPLE. THEY CAN'T LEAVE AND THEY DON'T CONTROL THEIR OWN LIVES. 
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  30. Kim Il-sung You have to know why smart talented people have to be kept prisoner in a country that neither rewards them nor allows them to reach their potential. Capitalism (freedom of commerce ) allows the gifted people to shine and the average people to choose what they want to do and what they want to buy. In a successful Capitalist society the incoming wealth also allows a welfare system that helps the underclass. Communism treats everyone like the underclass. 
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  31. Kim Il-sung That's just idiotic, no one put me here. I chose to work within a social compact and in a merit based system and I have my own business. When business is good I pay my contractors (I don't employ regular workers) up to $10,000 a week. I don't owe anyone anything. I did the work and payed my way and quite frankly I pay tons of taxes to my society. If anything my people owe me a debt of gratitude for what I have done for my society. Real Americans don't think that way though We are just happy to live in Freedom. 
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  32. Kim Il-sung I prefer the benefits and risks of Freedom to the certainty of Communism.  "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."  Theodore Rosevelt
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  33. Kim Il-sung Wrong,  I'm almost 50 and I've enjoyed the benefits all my life. The problem with America now is creeping socialism. 
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  34. Kim Il-sung Its not free market capitalism anymore and that is the corruption that is the problem. It's still better here than 90% of the world. 
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  35.  Communism is sustainable misery for all, but some things should not be sustained. And BTW I have 2 Pickups, a HEMI Jeep, a Saturn SKY , RZR 1000, motorcycles etc etc so I'm better off than 1920. 
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  36. Kim Il-sung Rubbish, the problem is crony capitalism which isn't even close to Free Market Capitalism. Government in bed with big business is destroying the economy and is unsustainable here in the States. China, Russia, the EU etc etc absolutely rely on Capitalism. You are saying you don't like the wheels on the world wide economy. You can't have Freedom without Capitalism and Capitalism can't exist without Freedom.  This idea of fairness implies a brute force , most the time a tyrannical government. Democracy without limits is also like this fairness idea. Unlimited democracy always leads to mob rule and destruction. The only fairness dictators or governments can guarantee is equality of misery and they never include themselves in this. For example obamacare , the government rulers have excluded themselves from it. Notice I said rulers, as they have become under a more liberal government. They are supposed to be Public Servants.  Here is a very simplified video of how things are supposed to be in America.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdS6fyUIklI
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  37. Kim Il-sung So Communism exploits people against their will , but thats ok  and Capitalism is evil because people who freely participate are too stupid to know they are being exploited ? 
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  38. Kim Il-sung I see you think economics is a zero sum game, keynesian economics. wealth can't be created only stolen. This is the root of your ignorance.  If I plant a garden, tend to it and reap from it and it yields tomatoes I have created a wealth of tomatoes that didn't exist before. Let's say my neighbor builds homes and I trade a couple of hundred thousand tomatoes to him to build a home for me. Now there is a home,  that is wealth. Let's say instead of a home I trade him for gold which I use to buy other food (created wealth) or a car or boat etc etc. What if poor people trade their natural resources for food , is that a theft that should be eliminated ?  Let me suggest if natural resources are in short supply the poor countries should learn to feed themselves. There is no such thing as limited wealth as long as people are willing to invent , dream , and work. 
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  39. Kim Il-sung I'm sure you would condemn the United States for taking out the corrupt governments also. You have no solution. 3rd world countries are undeveloped because of the people that live there not the US. The US also gives billions of dollars of aid to help the poor all around the world but that's not good enough for you , we also have to be blamed for their own corruption and ignorance. 
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  40. Kim Il-sung My question was, do you advocate removing evil corrupt governments ? Or maybe we should just cut off trade so we don't take advantage of poor stupid people in undeveloped countries. What is the answer ? 
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  41. Kim Il-sung You don't have any answers only complaints. 
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  42. Kim Il-sung Your moral based intervention suddenly becomes muddy when people die . I would be happy to have a non-interventionalist foreign policy if no one  attacked America or her Allies.  Cuba is a poor backward 3rd world country because of Fidel and Communism. 
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  43. Kim Il-sung No real answers ???
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  44. Kim Il-sung NO, communism is a prison. With all due respect I'd rather be stranded in the wilderness with my freedom than under the thumb of a merciless Communist dictatorship. 
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  45. Kim Il-sung N Korea is a prison and it's prisoners are propagandized with lies and mis information. We probably better stop talking I wouldn't want you to get in trouble for too much interaction with the enemy (but of course I'm not your enemy). 
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  46. Kim Il-sung I'm not your enemy, N Korea isn't a threat to me either. You keep believing what you want, the truth would probably make you miserable because you aren't in any position to leave the prison. 
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  47. Kim Il-sung Enjoy your life my friend, I wish you well with what life has given you. 
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  48. Kim Il-sung I hear you , we could have been great friends under different circumstances. 
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  49. zaxx19 Do you know any Canadians ? I do and the system is fine IF you don't mind standing in line for hours AND you don't have anything serious. If your problem is serious and or expensive to treat, you go to America and pay cash or just suffer and die.  I have been over seas and if you don't mind tiny houses, tiny cars and very limited lives you might think they are successful. Post industrial Amerika is doomed because of the liberal idiots and their socialistic crony capitalistic ideas. 
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  50. zaxx19 Good , pack your bags GTFO. 
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  51. zaxx19 You're an idiot, and this country will be bankrupt because of this stupidity. 18 trillion dollars in debt, you can't afford big government. There is over 100 trillion in unfunded entitlements just to maintain the status quoe. It's unsustainable, you will suffer because of it . History always repeats itself because the uneducated, unskilled and irresponsible eventually outnumber the rest of us. 
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  52. zaxx19 Unless you enslave millionaires they will just leave the country, just the same thing happened with industry. Almost all industry has left because of taxes and regulation. Your generation will suffer from this lack of common sense and ignorance of the past. 
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  53. zaxx19 Good luck finding someone to pay your share of the debt. 18 trillion is enough to buy every family a really nice new home. 
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  54. zaxx19 First they need to do basic math to be able to see how screwed they are. Wealth isn't a stagnant thing. You need production or a service every time money exchanges hands for a robust economy, spreading the wealth devalues the currency encourages sloth and more dependency. Rich people invest in things that work that continue to produce goods an services that benefit everyone and because they are greedy it's done with much greater efficiency than government projects. The United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the world now. You idiots who say raise taxes don't know you're the ones paying them. Wal-Mart doesn't pay taxes , Oil Companies don't pay taxes etc etc , their customers pay ALL TAXES that means YOU. 
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  55. zaxx19 Yes basic math $250K per household and that's just the beginning. When Rome falls the wealthy will be gone overnight.  Do you still think corporate taxes should be raised ? 
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  56. zaxx19 When you and your neighbors figure out how the $250,000.00 for every household is going to be paid off and how the reckless wasteful government is going to be reigned in you might have some answers.  America is in decline like never before and people who know like to keep their heads in the sand, those who don't are ignorantly blissful. 
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  57. zaxx19 Hey fruit loop I'm the guy paying for your welfare check. It comes from other people, there is no such thing as government money. The unfunded liabilities amounting to more than $250,000.00 per person can't be paid by average people and the so called rich will bail when it collapses. That doesn't include the 18 trillion in national debt.  Get a real job and contribute to society while it still stands.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdS6fyUIklI
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  58. zaxx19 I'm not worried about anything I'm not dependent on government like the crowd your talking about. When it collapses the US will be like those countries they fled from, poor and desperate. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing expecting different results.  Your problem is basic economics and basic math, if most people are uneducated, unskilled and on welfare there aren't enough products and services to continue an economy. Printed money isn't wealth and without an economic engine you get third world poverty. It will be like the Weimar Republic.  Your racist BS means nothing to me, your an angry little punk who thinks you know something. In 18 years of Law Enforcement I must have put hundreds of your little asses in jail. 
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  59. zaxx19 Assumptions and contradictions, you mock "public servants" and praise those parasites who won't work and live off the tax dollar, hypocrisy . Liberals love to group people "you guys" "brown people" "rich people" "poor people"etc etc. Your racist leanings blind you to what is good and right about America. Once we start dividing ourselves as Black Americans, White Americans , Mexican Americans etc. it creates division and strife. America as it was intended is supposed to be a melting pot so my black neighbor would feel more bonded to me and our city than another person with the same skin color a thousand miles away. And I would feel the same way about injustice against a person of different color anywhere especially a fellow American.  For the past decade I've owned my own business, pay my contractors up to $12,000 a week, worth every penny to our customers. I believe economics should always be viewed from  the consumer's point of view. If a person is valuable to society they will be paid accordingly in a free market encouraging more to be valuable. Our system of crony capitalism, corrupt unions, and outrageous lawsuits is a disservice to consumers and the working man and woman.  You mention education and I agree everyone should have a good publicly funded basic education. The bureaucratic mess we have now is more about politicians and teachers unions than educating children. I advocate for a voucher system and open free market private schools like colleges. Parents of poor children could send their children to any school of their choosing and competition would ensure a results oriented program judged by local and national testing. The last thing I want is poor children staying uneducated.  Higher Education should be more affordable not subsidized. I liked the college atmosphere and traditions but that is not education. Weekend and online courses should be encouraged by potential employers , maybe some sort of sponsorship system encouraged by tax breaks.  Finally on immigration, legal immigration. Shouldn't new immigrants  be productive members of society, valuable to American consumers filling a need and purpose in return for self esteem and cohesiveness to their new chosen society?  I don't care what color you are or where you came from if your going to be an American then be an American, be productive and valuable to your community. "Judge others by the content of their character not the color of their skin."  MLK 
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  60. zaxx19 I don't even watch fox. You can't see whats right in front of your face.  Would you allow someone to break into your house take over your bedroom and eat your food ? I hope they do and you better not call them parasites, but that's what they are.  There are two basic types of people who in their lifetime are either a benefit to their neighbors and country or parasites who could contribute but pretend their burden on others is justified.  Private police and military , are you stupid ? Those are two areas that government is effective.  Once again consumer oriented economics is the best approach. Not every area in the country can or should pay the same wages for the same job, comparative cost of living is the determining factor. If a town can find competent police officers for 23K then thats what it should pay, however if they can't then it's time to raise wages until the positions are filled by competent people. It's just common sense, which I don't expect you to understand.
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  61. zaxx19 No one is this STUPID (except maybe you , ha ha ) , to compare public servants to welfare cases, mostly low life parasitic scum. Only an idiot would want to import failure. 
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  62. alfredkwaak Capitalism , free market capitalism, is the freedom individuals have to participate in transacting in commerce. So I ask you what is freedom to you ?  I object to the current system, I call crapitalism or crony capitalism in which wealthy people and groups of people are in bed with corrupt politicians. This is not Capitalism. My detractors think we should just turn it all over to corrupt politicians to run as they see fit. They are so ignorant they can't see the benefits of real capitalism with controls on corrupt business and politicians. The anti-capitalists want to take away the freedom of the individuals in society to give it to politicians  to punish those abusers of power.  A free individual walks into my business, I work on his vehicle, he pays me when he's satisfied with the work. Affordable and efficient , both parties are happy. That is success. 
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  63. zaxx19 I love how ignorant you are mentioning nazis and advocating for socialism. NAZI means National Socialist Party , as left wing big government controlling as you can get. Now fascism commonly associated with Nazis is mistaken for a right wing political ideology, its not. Fascism is a methodology and used by all kinds of political ideologies like Socialism. If you like president obama overturning the laws in this country to proclaim amnesty , you are supporting Fascism, and it doesn't surprise me. To recap you hate nazi fascists but that's exactly what you are supporting. Remember what I said about importing failed uneducated thinking. 
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  64. Tervaification Enjoy your mediocrity , I prefer freedom. 
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  65. Tervaification Nothing is free, are your teachers and doctors compensated ?
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  66. Tervaification In the US it was a hell of a lot less expensive before government got involved.
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  67. alfredkwaak Yes if they pay a ton of taxes as he has said.  The government uses socialism to spend and waste money and yes it is statism, not mutually exclusive. 
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  68. alfredkwaak My objection is some people living off of other people. Forget labels, there is no pure socialism and no pure capitalism. When people don't work to pay for their own property and they don't contribute to society through reasonable taxes, I object . We currently have a system that 50% pay no federal income tax and a large majority get money for having children documented on their statement. I'm talking about $5,000.00 per child in some instances . It's called EIC, it's welfare. I pay my taxes and they just give it  away and demand more. 
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  69. alfredkwaak I can't defend the system we have presently, it's not capitalism and it's not a functioning Republic. It is an out of control federal government using mob democracy to grow and maintain power. If they can convince the mob  to support it, or at least not resist it, it becomes the law of the land, in spite of the limitations of the Constitution. Corrupt politicians lining their pockets and paying their constituents with money meant to benefit the country as a whole. If liberalism worked economically then why are the bluest states in the worst financial shape? Places like Chicago , run by liberals for decades, is in horrible shape financially. An experiment that keeps repeating with the same results.        The kind of irresponsible socialism creeping into this country is producing 18 trillion dollars of debt and 120 trillion in unfunded liabilities. With a population of 320 million that is not only unsustainable but sure destruction in the future. 138 trillion is $431,250 per person or about 2.5 million dollars per household. 
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  70. alfredkwaak Ok ignore every single bit of history we know.   You believe in managing people not allowing them to be free.   Free Market Capitalism and the industrialization of the United States made it the greatest super power the world has ever known. Only the thousands of laws and regulations and taxes has put it in a state of decline.  Income equality ??? How about merit based pay as in a Free Market. The customer decides to redistribute his money based on the best value for his hard earned money. The alternative is like the automobiles produced in the Soviet Union , ugly , underperforming, utilitarian POS. You can't tell me when you buy a product it's based on income equality.  People are not the same some are smart, some are strong , others are not so bright and a lot of people are just lazy. If you hire someone to paint your house would you pay $20/ hr regardless of the quality, or progress ?  Only if your a fool, that's income equality. We already have laws on the books preventing discrimination and if an employee is mistreated he or she can take their complaint to a civil court and have a jury of their peers determine if they are due any further compensation.  I also wouldn't worry about the "poor" in this country. They have homes, new vehicles, cell phones and more food than anyone can eat. My Cuban friend was telling me about all the food thrown out at the local church because the "poor" didn't want it.
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  71. alfredkwaak Your assumption of the current system here is wrong. The problem with the medical system is poor people. For many years now poor people could walk into an ER and get free treatment. It has been a deception that people are not getting treatment because they are poor. The hospital and doctors have to pass that cost onto the paying customers and that has ballooned over the years. The lazy freeloading MF's in this country are the reason things are so expensive.    Markets work and they are about as fair as any system. Doctors refusing to treat people won't stay in business. If it becomes too costly even though there is demand there won't be any customers. Markets are in the hands of providers and customers. Politicians deciding what is fair and who gets what is the most inefficient system and most unfair. If my business was socialized you wouldn't get 10% of the work I normally perform and that is the problem with socialism. 
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  72. alfredkwaak YOU are right, distributing cost to the next customer is wrong !!!! Insurance  carries this risk through voluntary participation. It was affordable and worked very well until obamacare . Those who got medical care should have to pay for it, and that would encourage people to purchase insurance. 
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  73. 7h3647h32in6 Stating facts, 17 trillion in debt at this point. Every American born now owes $750,000.00 to accomplish the socialistic goal past and future debt on this path. Socialism only works when people are comfortable in a much less prosperous country . You can see with your own eyes how spreading the wealth works to elect politicians. Continuing on this path will cause a collapse of the economic system in this country. FACT
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  74. boptillyouflop You present a logical argument however Free Market forces cannot be denied in a free society, because free market forces are the very motivation that causes individuals to be productive in a society. We don't need more busy work employees to redistribute wealth. The Free Market is the most efficient means of wealth redistribution and the best economy.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VogzExP3qhI
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  75. Elem Oki obama is being fascistic when he ignores the laws of this country to implement more control by the state. Current Democrats are Nazis, National Socialists.  Current Republicans are mostly gutless corporatists. 
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  76. Elem Oki Awe common ground a rare thing these days. It's amazing because all the hard work done to keep people divided and at odds. It's the only reason we have just two parties in power, people are polarized into one camp or the other. What do you think of Dr Ben Carson ? 
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  77. MET-TECH LLC Who pays corporate taxes?
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  78. Jose Echevarria Properly regulated capitalism is not akin to socialism and communism. The difference is individual freedom. I believe in a small safety net for those who truly need it but today's 18 Trillion dollar debt and the unfunded social liabilities of 120 Trillion will break this country. That is about a half a million dollars of debt for every citizen in the US. Illegals flooding in and taking advantage of the safety net will accelerate this destruction. Who is going to pay your part of this debt ? Your children will certainly suffer for these "benefits" of socialism you enjoy now. 
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  79. ***** Read the Liberty Amendments  by Mark Levin . I believe he has the answer. 
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  80. ***** That nut is your typical troll, like michale moore getting his jollys off of riling you up. No amount of logic or genus can cure his sickness. Just don't feed him too much, he will think he got in your head. 
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  81. Radical Skeptic Did you watch that Jordanian  pilot burn to death ?  http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/glenn-beck-the-world-needs-to-see-the-depravity-of-the-islamic-state-graphic/ Watch it about 20 times and then bitch about the military that protects this country.  You are a victim of propaganda, yes we have a too much crony capitalism but throwing the golden goose out an embracing a top down authoritarian social dictatorship is insane.  I have to go to my business now and make $1,000.00 with my skills this afternoon. I have paid my contractors up to $12,000 a week each when business is good. I doubt they would embrace your socialist idiocracy. 
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  82. Radical Skeptic So the good guys are the ones setting prisoners on fire ? Nothing else you say carries any weight you are morally bankrupt and a gutless coward, afraid to call evil what it is. Would you take a stand if they were going to set you on fire ?
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  83. Mr Melody Thank you for your service ! I guess no matter what the conditions are, you can't put a price on freedom. 
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  84. Kamil Faizi Most Americans don't accept living in a tiny shit hole of a house, driving a pos car, and taking their marching orders from a tin pot dictator as the rest of the world does. 
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  85. Tahuan Tinsuyo And there it is, the cult member reveals himself. No wonder you don't know anything you believe in one sided propaganda and a social prison because of your bigotry . 
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  86. Aditya Saha I prefer a Constitutional Republic where socialist masterminds can't rearrange society whenever they want. History has shown unchecked power is always corrupted. The United States is in decline , the system of checks and balances have been abdicated and a cult of personality has the opposition nearly willing to go along to get along. Government is completely irresponsible with 18 trillion dollars of debt and 120 trillion dollars of unfunded promises. Our traitorous president has encouraged unskilled poor deseased immigrants to illegally enter the country with the promise of freebies for votes. The economic byproduct of a free society is capitalism. It is the most powerful motivator for people to work. If Joe Socialist and Bob Capitalist compete , Bob will always work harder, longer and happier. That being said any compassionate society has to have a safety net for people who really need it. That's not the case in America anymore, too much welfare has created a dependent class who's lives for the most part seem meaningless, and unproductive. In the cities this creates a culture of crime and hopelessness. I personally am never happier than when I'm working and I can't imagine a life of continueous poverty in a social cell block that punishes self betterment and robs from achievement. 
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  87. Tahuan Tinsuyo Hitler was a Nazi , Nazi was the National SOCIALIST Party. You know nothing . 
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  88. Tahuan Tinsuyo You are a cult member.  "The Palestinian Arab and Nazi political leaders publicly claimed common cause against International Jewry." from  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relations_between_Nazi_Germany_and_the_Arab_world http://www.ushmm.org/research/publications/academic-publications/full-list-of-academic-publications/nazi-palestine-the-plans-for-the-extermination-of-the-jews-of-palestine Look up the definition of cult . 
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  89. Aditya Saha There is no pure capitalism but I prefer maximum freedom to forced collectivism  and there is no place on the planet that socialism comes without government force. If Bob waits for his neighbor Joe to help him he won't achieve his goals.  Part of the issue I have is the definition of socialism. In America socialism is viewed as welfare, some people living as parasites off of others. If socialism means you have to carry your own equivelent weight most the time I would be for that. If welfare recipients had to pay back their free ride , I would be for that.  I'm not against voluntary socialism, we call that charity and corporation. 
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  90. Aditya Saha My friend, common sense keeps us from falling off cliffs, don't ignore it. To put it into perspective if the United States pays it's debt and all of it's unfunded liabilities (promises) not including the interest, it would be equal to writing a check to every citizen for $500,000.00 dollars. The government doesn't produce revenue, people do, so that means everyone owes half a million dollars to just maintain this lifestyle. If the debt continues and or the interest rate climbs we could owe twice as much or more. We have an idiot president claiming we owe the debt to ourselves and no one should be concerned. This is ignorance on display for the whole world to see and at some point the world will abandon the dollar and America will cease to exist, financially. 
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  91. Craig Smith I have a good friend who came from Cuba with Crohns disease he would be dead if he had stayed in communist Cuba. He says lifting the embargo will enrich the government and friends of the government but encourage the suppression of the people by the government.  It is a foolish move to encourage any kind of Communism. People like you believe what you want in spite of the facts. I don't see your hero fat ass michael moore moving any time soon to Cuba. 
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  92. Tahuan Tinsuyo Communism puts people last and government first and healthcare is akin to the vehicles the people drive. I have a Russian friend also, do you remember the kind of crappy cars they had in the soviet union ? Communist healthcare is going to look at an expensive illness just like Canada , they can cure a million people with a minor illness by sacrificing one person with an expensive one. The good of the many outweigh the needs of a few. Only a fool would expect a communist regime or any government to care about their needs as much as they do themselves. 
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  93. Craig Smith I like philosophy as much as the next guy and I understand why people believe in religion and a system of government and cooperation that seems fair and just. In practice is where we see the failures of such government systems.  "Communisms goal is to kill off the government completely and live in a governmentless society as well as a classless society. " I think your confusing Communism with Marxism but in every Communist experiment we know, the force of government is the only thing that keeps it together including borders that keep people in as well as out. The only fairness in Communism is equal misery for the non-government class. I know because I have friends from Russia and Cuba.  My "ignorance" of the dream, pales in comparison to your ignorance of the practice, history and reality . This is an elemental difference between liberals and conservatives.I don't think all liberals are mindless emotional machines nor do I believe all conservatives are brilliant . I think we can agree that more government is less freedom. I would rather have Freedom and the responsibility to take care of myself and help my neighbors voluntarily than live in a cell block of fairness and equality defined by government. Take my advice , stop looking through rose colored glasses and examine the results of these experiments . Forget all the "good" intents. Take your own advice and read about the other side of these philosophies, I recommend "Liberty and Tyranny" by Mark Levin, a very serious historian. This is the most comprehensive book on anything I've ever read.
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  94. atlas42185 Your father did what a good American would and I wouldn't begrudge him the meager amount of unemployment he had coming to him. The problem is people who abuse the system.  America is failing the national debt of 17 trillion combined with unfunded liabilities of over 120 trillion WILL bankrupt this country. 
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  95. atlas42185 What percentage of your life is spent earning money to pay taxes ????? I'll bet you don't even pay income taxes as a lot of people don't. I could have bought a real  nice house with the taxes I've paid in the last 5 years.  My young idealist, government spending has dramatically increased in the last 15 years and that is the reason for the huge debt, google it.  While you are at it google welfare fraud and government waste in general. It's not a myth, there is a grade school across the street from my shop in a low income area. Most of the children are met by parents (who should be at work) when they get out of school. These families are on welfare, about one third of them can't speak English.  The only myth is the one in your head. You pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes every year and then come tell me taxes are too low.  I'll bet you want to raise taxes on corporations too. You fool, who do you think pays for those taxes ????? YOU DO !!!! The consumer pays all taxes. Shop at Wal-Mart or buy gasoline , you pay the taxes.  I read recently that the top 1 % of wage earners pay something like half of all the income taxes in this country. They also build business, products and employ many people. Lets just take more of their money, they will leave the country taking their businesses, products and jobs. It's already happening and when we've chased them all off this will be a 3rd world country. Your Santa Clause government won't have anything to offer anyone because it is also a welfare case depending on other people's money. 
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  96. stupidplants Good question, it was precisely because of creeping socialism. The banking industry had been subverted by GSE's (Government Sponsored Entities) Freddy Mac , Fanny May etc. The intent was to give more people with less ability to pay,  loans for homes (more high risk loans). This is social engineering amuck as it usually is. The idea was to share the risk with the tax payer (government money) and bet the loans would be paid off. The private market always to make money on these ventures also so huge packages of these loans were sold on the open market (after all the government was backing them). As things go people began defaulting on their payments this caused fear in the market and you have the bubble bursting in 2008. It was socialism, government social engineering .  The only reason things appear to be going well is the Fed (non- governmental group of international banks) hasn't raised interest rates AND government through printing and borrowing money has artificially pumped the markets with debt, 17 Trillion dollars. That is about 1.1 million for every tax payer. How long can you live on your credit card before bad things happen?  The economy is going over a cliff soon because of irresponsible government social engineering, socialism. 
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  97. Stephan Toth "working class principles and snobbery"  ???? As opposed to no work principals and envy ?  I like working, and I'm proud I'm not a burden on my neighbor's family. Socialism is all about dependence and enslaving, restricting the successful. I can see it's appeal to the underbelly of society. 
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  98. Stephan Toth I don't need any of this conspiracy crap, I have worked hard all my life and have just about everything I want, that's real and I earned it. I am more concerned about the filthy poor than the filthy rich taking what I have to enable their lazy lifestyles (some deserve help but most are freeloaders). 
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  99. Stephan Toth Knee jerk as I expected, now apply that to filthy rich. In the land of liberal group think all poor people are virtuous and anyone with means cheated someone else, this is the philosophy of the weak minded, shallow devoid of critical thinking and emotionally gutless. The truth always lays somewhere in-between where, there is definitely filthy rich and filthy poor. Those people are contemptible because of their character not their current financial status.  This type of social engineering (socialism) is counterproductive to lifting the poor out of their situation. By providing a means of living at no personal cost , the "poor" become comfortable and feel safe in their poverty. No longer exposed to intense motivation to better themselves they are happy with the status quo  and justified by people like you who replace the shame of being a burden on society with the honor of victim virtue.  Speaking of famous sayings,"The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. "Jesus never advocated for government solutions in fact Revelations equated governments of men with beasts. (yes I studied eschatology)  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Republican) once said "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Content of character is how we should judge people not by the money in their bank account.  Here is a thought, maybe the life we get is the life we deserve, karma..............
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  100. Tahuan Tinsuyo Shallow and lazy response just like your socialist philosophy. 
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  101. Stephan Toth Well ........NO !! I enjoy a level of living that I have created with my intellect and hands BECAUSE of my freedom from a mostly socialized prison. I designed and built my own house with these two hands. I have a very successful business that I built without help from government . There is nothing that can compete with success.  Someone once said "power corrupts" and when it comes to government power it corrupts everything it touches. This government is pushing socialism because they know it will give them even more power over the people. 
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  102. Tahuan Tinsuyo LOL how much time every day do you spend trying to deny what your eyes can clearly see ?  It takes convoluted ignorance to believe what you believe. 
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