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Originally posted by BlackOps719
Come on man........ not this crap again.
Some of you people make the rest of us Americans look like complete tools.
Huh? You don't even have an argument against what I said? That's all you can say? At least try to back up what you are saying.
Originally posted by thehoneycomb
reply to post by BlueBall
Good. Good for you!!!!
Originally posted by thehoneycomb
So national pride pisses you all off?
I love America, it is most awesome. I love america and capitalism with every part of my soul. It is awesome and god is awesome.
God bless america 1000 times.
The U.S. Government refuses to live within its means. Such is the message we hear, again and again, from all sides. But why can't the state lower its spending? Quite simply, because we now believe that government should do everything. In other words, the liberal ideal of limited government has all but disappeared. In fact, liberalism has disappeared; and those who call themselves liberals today are socialists.
William Henry Chamberlin (1897-1969), having lost his faith in socialism, summed up the experience of his generation as follows: "socialism is ... the road not to freedom, but to dictatorship and counter-dictatorships, to civil war of the fiercest kind." In respect of this statement, those with limited historical knowledge or experience probably won't understand Chamberlin's statement. Yet there is nothing to understand except the fact that socialism is incompatible with freedom, incompatible with peace, and incompatible with prosperity. If you want to understand why the United States government cannot live within its means, consider the fact that socialists have been mass-produced at our universities and schools for many years now.
Socialists have taken over education in America. And look what they have wrought in our midst. When the back of the economy is broken by socialism, what will we have? Dictatorship and/or civil war. But who has the wisdom to see this eventuality? "The most important event in the history of the last hundred years is the displacement of liberalism by etatism," wrote Ludwig von Mises several decades a
We aren't actually defending communism. We simply don't like capitalism, or your way of showing "national pride". Not to mention, your description of communism is COMPLETELY bias and non-factual. I actually support a more open and less competitive type of system, things like the resource based economy model look promising. It has nothing to do with a totalitarian government, it's the exact opposite, where useless positions of power are removed all together. It works by the idea of "sharing is caring", instead of "crush the competition". If you think people are simply too greedy to work for free, and share their output for free, then you are mistaken and trapped in a single frame of mind. Just look at open source technology, people dedicate enormous amounts of their time on highly technical projects all for free. In fact, the majority of websites are completely reliant on open source technology.
Originally posted by thehoneycomb
I made my point because you all stand in defense of communism. Not anybody stands for america!
Colloquially, it refers to excessive bias in judging one's own country as superior to others – an extreme type of nationalism