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To: Alighieri who wrote (468395)	4/2/2009 4:48:53 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (5) of 1577592

Al, > Let me ask you a question...would you maintain that we are headed towards marxism or that we are already there? We're headed toward there. Not there yet; way too much capitalist sentiment still exists in America. You only have to listen to that "whiny" Tenchu or those "rednecks" from Arkansas to figure that out. But the shift in the public mentality is very noticeable, even to a guy like me. "We Are All Socialists Now," declares Newsweek: newsweek.com > All of this is unfolding in an economy that can no longer be understood, even in passing, as the Great Society vs. the Gipper. Whether we like it or not—or even whether many people have thought much about it or not—the numbers clearly suggest that we are headed in a more European direction. A decade ago U.S. government spending was 34.3 percent of GDP, compared with 48.2 percent in the euro zone—a roughly 14-point gap, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In 2010 U.S. spending is expected to be 39.9 percent of GDP, compared with 47.1 percent in the euro zone—a gap of less than 8 points. As entitlement spending rises over the next decade, we will become even more French. To me, there isn't much difference between Marxism and socialism. Some might even call the European version of socialism as a post-modern version of Marxism. It's all semantics, since Marxism is usually associated with oppressive communist regimes like the Soviet Union and North Korea. However, those states might be better described as Leninist, after the guy who was the first to put Marxism to practice. Funny how I hardly hear that term anymore in the public lexicon. Tenchusatsu

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