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Old 02-08-2019, 03:25 PM
 
Location: Kansas City, MISSOURI
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Instead of trying to turn the US into your ideal, utopian, unicorns and rainbows fantasy land, why don't you and those who think like you do move to the countries that are more in line with your economic beliefs? Why do you insist that many others MUST live according to your ideals when you have the option of moving instead of forcing everyone else to change?


Selfish much?
Anybody who has some sort of vision of what the US should be will be guilty of the same thing. Libertarians want to turn the US into some sort of libertarian paradise, and liberals want to turn the US into some sort of liberal paradise. Each side can tell the other, if you don't like it here, move.
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Old 02-08-2019, 03:47 PM
 
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Educate yourself. The USA is on its way to becoming Venezuela now due to GOP corruption. Socialism did not destroy the Venezuelan economy. Being a petrol state under corrupt dictatorial leadership a la Russia style did them in.
You should have said "Indoctrinate yourself..."
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Old 02-08-2019, 03:52 PM
 
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https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...3&&FORM=VDRVRV

People are warning us, will we be smart enough to listen? Praying it won't happen here.
I don't think these socialist countries are failing. They don't seem to have the issues the U.S. has either.

China
Denmark
Finland
Netherlands
Canada
Sweden
Norway
Ireland
New Zealand
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Old 02-08-2019, 03:53 PM
 
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This horse is dead. Don’t you guys have any original thoughts?
OMG, the Pot calling the Kettle black!!
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Old 02-08-2019, 03:54 PM
 
Location: In The Thin Air
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Trump really triggered his base with his Socialist comments. Hide under your bed because the big bad socialist monster is coming. We are going to turn into the next Venezuela.

OP, you should do some of your own research before parroting fake news. You just might learn something (I doubt it).
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Old 02-08-2019, 03:55 PM
 
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I don't think these socialist countries are failing. They don't seem to have the issues the U.S. has either.

China
Denmark
Finland
Netherlands
Canada
Sweden
Norway
Ireland
New Zealand
Actually none of those are socialist - all capitalist. China excepted, which is communist. But you are welcome to leave to go to one of them.
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Old 02-08-2019, 03:55 PM
 
Location: In The Thin Air
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OMG, the Pot calling the Kettle black!!
Not really. DD has some great posts on here that are pretty insightful and original.
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Old 02-08-2019, 04:12 PM
 
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Well if John Stossel says it -- then I guess we better all listen.
He didn't say it, the people who lived through it's ruins are saying it.
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Old 02-08-2019, 04:14 PM
 
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If only people would turn off the Faux news. Venezuela crashed because of government corruption and because they didn’t invest in oil infrastructure when times were good. Also, the Venezuelans are importing oils because their crude can’t be pumped and managed without that because it’s too heavy. They have debt to Russia and China so they are essentially importing oil at market price, and sending out the other end for free. Oil output from Venezuela is less than half the capacity right now and they sit on the worlds largest reserve. If they can’t sell oil, they can’t import food.
Simple.
That's what socialism is. Geesh
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Old 02-08-2019, 04:25 PM
 
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He didn't say it, the people who lived through it's ruins are saying it.
Yeah, they've lived through the ruins of a despotic dictator who purported to be a believer in 'socialism' and like the "stupid" not knowing the definition of the word, parrot what they've been told was the cause of their misfortune.

Cut the legs off your beds; you'll sleep better knowing there's no bogeymen under there.
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