Do You Think Obama is a Socialist... Do You Care?

[Kasz216]

akuma587 said:

Kasz216 said:

akuma587 said:

Kasz216 said:

 

We're going to be stable forever?  We're not even that stable right now.

Putting in a bunch of controls and gettng people more used to and accepted to have government control their lives leads to trouble.

Also.  Russia was stable, modern, industrialized and socialist... and Putin has taken control... and people are happy... espiecially the young people.

 

Russia wasn't socialist.  They were communist.  Not to mention Russia was incredibly unstable.  Do I have to remind you that its entire government collapsed two decades ago?  Not to mention it had massive social uprisings that completely redistributed the balance of power a few decades prior.  I don't think Russia was ever the model of stability.

Anyways, the U.S., the Western European nations, and some Asian nations like Japan are really in the post-industrial phases of their economies more so than the industrial phases.  So I should have said post-industrial rather than industrial.  That was my mistake.  Post-industrial nations are developed countries that are dominated by the tertiary and quaternary sectors of their economies rather than the primary and secondary sectors of their economy.

Russia was Communist when Putin hand picked his own successor and is taking control?  Say again?

Russia's per capita GDP is about a fourth of the United States, Australia, France, Germany, the UK, Canada, and Japan.  How can you really even compare the stability of their governments with such a broad discrepancy?

And this is a very accurate indicator of economic prosperity and stability for a country as populated as Russia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita

So Mexico and Turkey aren't stable?  That's a weird definition of stability you've got there.