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#1    cerberusxp

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Posted 10 April 2012 - 01:21 AM

These are INTERESTING tidbits. LINK and LINK

Show me one Socialist or Communist society that does NOT have a CASTE system. Now how many of you WANT that here. Taking numbers. A number is all you will ever be under such a system. Always the "Leadership" will lavish themselves in luxury, while the rest are equally impoverished.

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Posted 10 April 2012 - 02:04 AM

In the USA,we are all reduced to our social security numbers,so in a democracy,all we are is numbers ,already.
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Posted 10 April 2012 - 02:59 AM

View Postcerberusxp, on 10 April 2012 - 01:21 AM, said:

These are INTERESTING tidbits. LINK and LINK

Show me one Socialist or Communist society that does NOT have a CASTE system. Now how many of you WANT that here. Taking numbers. A number is all you will ever be under such a system. Always the "Leadership" will lavish themselves in luxury, while the rest are equally impoverished.

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage."

  -Milton Friedman


That situation is what the OWS folks think ALREADY exists in this country.  There are disparities that could be rectified to some extent but it's no where near as bad as true socialism would leave us. IMO
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