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CB, I disagree that socialism and communism are the same thing. All forms of communism are socialist, but many forms of socialism are not communism. Lumping them together ignores reality and makes honest debate impossible. I'm not unaware of Stalin's Russia or the current condition in Venezuela. In our own country we've socialized defense, public safety, education, and care for the elderly. The point here would seem to be one of degree. Lots of socialism can be bad. In my view, privatizing Social Security is one of the worst ideas ever. A government planned economy won't work here, but there's an obvious role for government in keeping business and industry in bounds. Of course, we'll disagree that the extent of that role.
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Don't know a whole lot of the new green, craig. I do know the old measures of economic greatness were steel production and technology. China leads in steel and wireless technology and making a lot of new friends with trade diplomacy. The US has turned against its allies, no longer considered trustworthy. New friends? You sure? Not trustworthy? Good luck with the Chinese. _________________________ Hows that EU army coming along?
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Don't know a whole lot of the new green, craig. I do know the old measures of economic greatness were steel production and technology. China leads in steel and wireless technology and making a lot of new friends with trade diplomacy. The US has turned against its allies, no longer considered trustworthy. Hahahaha...that's funny King. Guess you missed the smoking gun in the hands of Huawei. Corrupting new acquaintances is more like it. https://nationalpost.com/news/world/smok...litary-agencies
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rocky mtn bill has had the roots of the 2008 Great Recession explained to him in detail dozens of times. Yet he still returns with his repeated lie that Obama inherited a mess that was caused by George Bush. And he still conveniently "forgets" that Obama did a piss-poor job of getting us out of the Great Recession of 2008. He used a template put in place to bail out auto companies and financial companies (TARP) that was handed to him by the Bush Administration before Bush left office. Obama did very little himself to help fix things, and wasted time golfing and blaming Bush. Billy wants us to forget that Obama had the weakest post-recession recovery on record, and told us that economic malaise and chronic high unemployment would be the new normal. Meanwhile, Trump has us down to 3.7% unemployment and in an economy that keeps churning ahead. Billy wants to give Obama credit for that success, and impeach Trump, and replace him with another Socialist loser! One can only imagine how bad the 2008 Great Recession would have gotten if Bush simply handed Obama the keys and told him, "You Liberal Left anti-gun Democrats started this mess... now you can fix it!" The ignorant liar Billy also wants us all to forget about all of the failing Socialist "slices of heaven" that have driven millions to flee brutal dictators and flood other countries with refugees seeking political asylum. It must be because they got tired of having too much free stuff. The example of the ongoing disaster in Venezuela was pointed out to Billy less than a week ago, and this dim bulb is already back again defending Socialism as a better alternative to Capitalism. I sincerely hope that when Donald Trump is re-elected in 2020, he makes it a priority to get rid of idiots like rocky mtn bill who are teaching garbage and lies to our kids in public schools. Billy is in denial about the numbers of humans killed as a result of Liberal left Socialism. The numbers of little humans killed annually just in this country alone are staggering. But Libtards like Billy see them as inconvenient blobs of tissue:  And speaking of the wealth gap, Billy will never complain about rich Liberals selling dead baby body parts in order to buy a Lamborghini: 
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I didn't refer to the presidents by name, others did: Slick Willie, Bush, Obama and Trump. All pulled the strings of a mixed, private-public economy, head office Washington.
Americans adhere to the same social comity as the Chinese have with their command economy, waiving economic and political liberty for a better standard of living.
Only difference is the gap widens between commoners and the one per cent while China has lifted hundreds of millions from poverty.
You may have forgotten that Republican and Democratic presidents precipitated massive debt and 2008 by removing regulations.
You do know where that China has 285 billionaires? Second highest in the world. All created in the last 25 years. That from a country which was and still is communist or more truly a communist dictatorship. Don't give me this China is raising everyone up instead be honest. The elite communist, the friends of those in power, have cornered vast amounts of wealth for themselves. Just like in the former Soviet Union the elite are today's nobility with wealth and only lacking the noble titles.
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CB, I disagree that socialism and communism are the same thing. All forms of communism are socialist, but many forms of socialism are not communism. Lumping them together ignores reality and makes honest debate impossible. I'm not unaware of Stalin's Russia or the current condition in Venezuela. In our own country we've socialized defense, public safety, education, and care for the elderly. The point here would seem to be one of degree. Lots of socialism can be bad. In my view, privatizing Social Security is one of the worst ideas ever. A government planned economy won't work here, but there's an obvious role for government in keeping business and industry in bounds. Of course, we'll disagree that the extent of that role. Yes we sure will disagree as to the extent. As I said in an earlier post, governments do have a regulatory role. But they over-reach as a matter of course. It's the very nature of large bureaucracies. So, IMHO, we must constantly be pulling back on the reins of government while you would encourage digging in your heels and yelling giddyup!. And, as I said before, trying to distinguish between socialism and communism is a muggs game....semantics.....the objective is always the same....accruing all power to a centre and holding onto that power at all cost. Gotta hand it to the free market and the democracies that have a semblance of it....they have largely mastered the art of the peaceful transfer of power. Something your socialist / communist buddies haven't quite figured out yet. Probably because they don't want to. LOL
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Don't give me this China is raising everyone up instead be honest.
Hahahaha! That is really funny shit! Did you really ask the Liberal Left anti-gun Troll King to be honest about Communist China??? Next you'll be asking rocky mtn bill to be honest about the cause of the 2008 economic collapse and Recession. When those two Libtards do that, look up to the sky... 
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Huawei. Winning friends in Canada. Caught with 3 APPLE devices. https://www.cultofmac.com/614252/huawei-cfo-apple-arrested-meng-You want to hitch your mule cart to this? The talking mule might spend his remaining years in the gulag. Or Halifax. ________________________ Didnt the Chinese arrest a Canadian over this?
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....many forms of socialism are not communism. Lumping them together ignores reality and makes honest debate impossible....
....In our own country we've socialized defense, public safety, education, and care for the elderly. The point here would seem to be one of degree. Lots of socialism can be bad. In my view, privatizing Social Security is one of the worst ideas ever. A government planned economy won't work here, but there's an obvious role for government in keeping business and industry in bounds. Of course, we'll disagree that the extent of that role. Two thoughts here Bill. First, if social security is privitized, are you worried that there won't be imaginary funds to raid for unrelated money pits? And second, wouldn't honest debate include facts about how you claim the American citizen will be protected from 'lots of socialism can be bad'? Will you honestly debate about how the twenty dem candidates who recently 'debated', limit their ambitions to only 'good' socialism? 'Good', according to who, the asexual speaker of the house aoc? Thanks for the honest debate, Bill.
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KY Jon makes an interesting point about communist elites profiting tremendously while ordinary citizens languish. Sounds close to home to me. Here, they get big tax breaks too.
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