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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 09:00 AM
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100. I'm not really too much of a Socialist.
Edited on Thu Jul-31-08 09:41 AM by YOY
I believe in competition and fair business are essential to progress and development and that upward as well as downward mobility of "classes" are key to it's success. The rich should be able to fall and fall hard if they truly are pathetic and incapable of survival and the poor should be able to grow and prosper with personal success and capability. A little conservative I know but they often treat the rich as so deserving. I'd like to see some of the inbred blue bloods fall back down to the gutter where they and their dinosaur thinking belong and be replaced by hard working folks from the social strata below them.

That being said I am QUITE for public transportation and socialized medicine. I find the insurance companies of this country fall into what I deem as "parasite industries"...providing a non-exportable needed commodity that leeches off of the public.

It's just the failure of the libertarian to see what unrestrained and uncontrolled capitalism can do and the not everything is a goddamn moneymaker, can be turned into one, and if they were people who need those services and cannot afford them would not be accommodated and would suffer as a whole.
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