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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-23-09 06:29 AM
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FOLLOW THE MONEY
confused why healthcare reform is foundering? here's an easy indicator....
watch television. How many pharma and insurance ads do you see? Television isn't the whole issue, but it does reflect the situation.

Look at politicians.... how many are bankrolled by pharma, insurance, oil, and er.... um banks. Is it really a mystery why they vote as they do?

Look at the military industrial complex. Ever notice how they invest in your fear?

In an erzatz capitalist society, money is the loudest power. Follow it where it goes and you will have your answers.
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-23-09 06:44 AM
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1. "erzatz capitalist society?"
Huh?
Did you mean ersatz? If so, that doesn't make any sense here. Ersatz means a substitute, usually a bad one. We have been living in almost a model capitalist society, not an ersatz one.
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-23-09 08:39 AM
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2. we claim to live in a capitalist society
but we live in a fascist society.
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-23-09 09:12 AM
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3. Capitalism is an economic system
Fascism is a political system. They can coexist.
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