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Old 09-21-2018, 06:43 AM
 
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Maduro's "people" have been reduced to starvation diets and eating their pets while he dines on the finest cuts.
With the recent surge in the popularity of socialist candidates here in the US and especially among the young, one is left to believe the education system is failing to adequately portray socialism for the lethal con job that it is.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/18/world...ntl/index.html
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro feasted on pricey steaks and smoked cigars at a "Salt Bae" restaurant in Istanbul on Monday, drawing ire and condemnation back home, where an economy spiraling toward collapse has triggered a food crisis.
"some animals are more equal than others"- Orwell
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Old 09-21-2018, 07:54 AM
 
Location: Manchester NH
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Maduro's "people" have been reduced to starvation diets and eating their pets while he dines on the finest cuts.
With the recent surge in the popularity of socialist candidates here in the US and especially among the young, one is left to believe the education system is failing to adequately portray socialism for the lethal con job that it is.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/18/world...ntl/index.html
"some animals are more equal than others"- Orwell
Orwell was a democratic socialist.

Socialism is the workers controlling the means of production, not state capitalism.
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Old 09-21-2018, 08:01 AM
 
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Maduro's "people" have been reduced to starvation diets and eating their pets while he dines on the finest cuts.
With the recent surge in the popularity of socialist candidates here in the US and especially among the young, one is left to believe the education system is failing to adequately portray socialism for the lethal con job that it is.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/18/world...ntl/index.html
"some animals are more equal than others"- Orwell
The real problem is that any pragmatic solutions to market failures are derided as socialist. If you dare point out flaws in capitalism you're labeled a communist - and Venezuela is always mentioned.
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Old 09-21-2018, 08:04 AM
 
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The real problem is that any pragmatic solutions to market failures are derided as socialist. If you dare point out flaws in capitalism you're labeled a communist - and Venezuela is always mentioned.
Yes, that’s the whole game that the Economic Right likes to play.
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Old 09-21-2018, 08:06 AM
 
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The real problem is that any pragmatic solutions to market failures are derided as socialist. If you dare point out flaws in capitalism you're labeled a communist - and Venezuela is always mentioned.
Name the market failure that is not directly related to government meddling. By all means, name just one.
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Old 09-21-2018, 08:06 AM
 
Location: Austin
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https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsr...reaten-America

These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now?--Bernie sanders 8/5/2011
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Old 09-21-2018, 08:09 AM
 
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Name the market failure that is not directly related to government meddling. By all means, name just one.
Easy.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/externality.asp
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Old 09-21-2018, 08:09 AM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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For The New Intellectual
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Atlas Shrugged.
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https://get educated about communist america
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Old 09-21-2018, 08:14 AM
 
Location: Santa Monica
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Ever notice how collectivism isn't so "collective" for the bourgeoisie?
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Old 09-21-2018, 09:15 AM
 
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Externalities are not market failures.

Name one market failure that doesn't have government meddling involved.
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