The Ghost of RubangB said:
HappySqurriel said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
halogamer1989 said:
Then I guess the Cold War and the millions of lives lost in Red takeovers and Korea and Vietnam wars were for nothing then. The sad thing is nobody even cares about that anymore. It is all about "How can I keep more $$$" while the capitalist US they love is vanishing before their non-noticing eyes... |
You think greed leads to communism?
I love America and I hate capitalism. (Fortunately they have nothing in common.)
I really have no idea what you're talking about.
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The element of America that I think has always been the most attractive is the idea that a person in America can become (practically) anything they want regardless of where they started out if they are willing to put the effort into it ... This is something which can only happen in a Liberal-Democracy that has a capatalist ecconomy.
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I see how that is an attractive concept, but in America you have a 1.1% chance of being homeless.
A monetary system based on greed helps a lot of people climb to the top, but can not exist without a big bottom to climb on top of.
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Even a man who is so down on his luck that he sleeps in a public rest-room can turn his life around ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Gardner )
Homelessness is not an easy problem to solve, and a laissez-faire approach will not work, but it is not a failure of capatalism ... every society known to man has had a serious homeless problem. Part of the problem is that no society has ever been able to handle people with mental, emotional and drug problems (in fact, from what we know exorcism was as effective as clinical psychology when treating schizophrenia)
