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  1. bfarwell: Right on! I’ve been too lazy to keep up with the OT and the capitalist hordes lately so thanks for taking up the slack. I agree with you 100%.

    donna: Just because so-called ‘socialist’ countries have failed (almost always because they are also dictatorships) does not denigrate socialism as a value system. In essence it just puts more emphasis on the collective ‘good’ than on the individual ‘good’. Where you draw the line matters just as it matters in any economic system; few of the capitalism-uber-alles folk here would, I suspect, argue for laissez-faire capitalism (or do you?)

    Similarly, a socialist system is fairer to the lower income folk, and if carried out rightly, does not lead to stifling innovation, soaking the rich, decay and doom.

  2. By CGar on July 29, 2010 12:44 PM

    “They have, PBR, m4l. That’s good enough for me.”

    In bottles yet.

    Well, it is BoCoCa , right??? And we know that EVERYTHING there is classy.

  3. Nomi, every time I try and speak French to a French-speaking person they kind of look at me in horror (horreur?) so mostly I don’t. I can still read and write it a little that’s about it.

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