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RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 09:42 PM Mar 2013

America -- Socialism Done Correctly

Socialism built the roads and bridges, dredged the seaports, and laid the concrete for jets to land.

It took us to the moon, it allows us freedom to roam, and keeps our Armies armed.

Capitalism is a parasite attached to American Socialism. It sucks its life from the core of America that Socialism built, from sea to shining sea.

Thank you Americans for keeping Socialism strong so that all are enabled to enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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America -- Socialism Done Correctly (Original Post) RobertEarl Mar 2013 OP
Except for that last line, you got it. K&R n/t Egalitarian Thug Mar 2013 #1
Thanks RobertEarl Mar 2013 #2
I don't understand why this completely self-evident fact is apparently so hard to see for a few Egalitarian Thug Mar 2013 #3
I don't get it either RobertEarl Mar 2013 #4
If you think this country is socialist - Zax2me Mar 2013 #5
Like I said RobertEarl Mar 2013 #6
Uhhh, not exactly. jazzimov Mar 2013 #7
US provided the funding RobertEarl Mar 2013 #8
Here is a test situation RobertEarl Mar 2013 #9
 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
2. Thanks
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 10:19 PM
Mar 2013

I edited the line.

The point is that with all of us working together and sharing in the building of things that make every human life here an easier to manage experience, we are enabled to do even more. To live an easier and richer life. The quality of nearly all America lives has been improved by foundation of Socialism.

 

Egalitarian Thug

(12,448 posts)
3. I don't understand why this completely self-evident fact is apparently so hard to see for a few
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 11:59 PM
Mar 2013

refugee republicans that dwell here.

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
4. I don't get it either
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 01:39 AM
Mar 2013

Guess is they have been brainwashed to run away whenever they see the word Socialism?

Our country was not founded on we the businesses, it is we the people.

Not capitalism, but Social unitings in order to form a more perfect union.

Be proud, people, that together we share in what we the people have built.

 

Zax2me

(2,515 posts)
5. If you think this country is socialist -
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 02:15 AM
Mar 2013

i'd like to introduce you to Wall Street - capitalist crooks and liars operating at full force.

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
6. Like I said
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 02:29 AM
Mar 2013

Capitalism is a parasite on Socialism.

Does Wall Street have a private army protecting it? Does it have private roads leading to it? Could it exist without the government of the US protecting it from outside theft?

Walls Street depends on we the people giving it the space in which to operate. Sure, sometimes the parasite is beneficial to the host, and in this case the taxes collected and the wages paid do benefit our Socialism.

jazzimov

(1,456 posts)
7. Uhhh, not exactly.
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 02:38 AM
Mar 2013

Except for the projects done by the Corp of Engineers, the US simply provided the funding and paid private companies to actually do the work.

That's a far cry from Socialism.

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
8. US provided the funding
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 02:53 AM
Mar 2013

And who is it that provides the real value and backing for the capital? The people. Whose capital is it? The people's.

Then who gets to use the projects created? The people. The problem, and the parasite, is the profit takers who finagle a way to use the creations and not pay their fair share. So we are not a pure socialist state, but we are mainly a socialist state. Without we the people backing the state, no business would last for long as it would not be able to grow. If it had no free transportation system to use to move to new markets it could not grow. Had it not protection to extend outside its local area it would be ripped off. The people provide the foundation; without foundation structures do not last long.

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
9. Here is a test situation
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 03:10 AM
Mar 2013

A hypothetical...

Take away one or the other from our country, eg, take away capitalism leaving the government to provide, or take away the government leaving capitalism.

What would the remaining entity look like? Which would survive?

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