Comments by "" (@freesk8) on "AFP News Agency" channel.

  1. When the wall fell, all the world knew that planned economies could never bring as much health, wealth and happiness to the people as market economies could. Soon, even communist China started to implement free market reforms. The result is the fastest improvement of standards of living in China in centuries. Markets work. Competition and capitalism is better for the poor. Central planning, and govt ownership of business fails. This lesson needs to be retold to each generation.
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  2. That's exactly what I am trying to do! :)
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  3. US voters gave us Nixon, Bush and Obama. Need I say more? Churchill said that the best argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with the average voter. Ben Franklin said that democracy was two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. I'm actually an American voter, but I tend to vote Libertarian. I'm also an atheist, and am opposed to the first use of force against peaceful people. So I'm the opposite of an Islamist terrorist. What are you?
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  4. The US is a Republic, not a democracy. My alegience is to the US Constitution, and to the principles of individual rights which it defends. WE created the terrorist threat, by violating those principles. We propped up dictators in their countries. That is why they attack us.
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  5. It seems that since the fall of the Berlin Wall, no faith is required to see that free market economies provide better living conditions for the poor than do more socialized ones. It's not a matter of faith anymore. It is a matter of experience. Won't you learn from history? Or will you be like the rest of the stupid American voters?
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