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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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steve harris
To: RetiredNow who wrote (1064296)4/8/2018 4:08:09 PM
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Ref: "Socialism is the Siren call of Heroin"
and this post:

My buddy Bob replied to an earlier post of yours, and I believe it's also valid as a comment here:

"Yes, pretty well said.

But to a person who is trying to tell you socialism is wonderful, all you have
to do is ask them to name one country that adopted socialism, and that
did not eventually produce collapse as a result. There is no such country.
The classic example is the USSR. And currently Venezuela is going
through the same kind of process, and is very close to their own economic
collapse. And that despite all the huge pools of oil that Venezuela sits on.
And once economic collapse takes place, political collapse and mayhem of
one kind or another is close behind. You can't fight human nature and
achieve any kind of success. But adopt freedom (almost the exact opposite
of socialism), and especially "free enterprise" (as the founding fathers of the
USA did over 200 years ago) and you get lots of prosperity. It's pretty hard to
argue that the USA is not the most economically successful country in human history.

It's a mystery to me how so many seemingly intelligent people can't get these
simple facts straight in their heads. I guess a lot of them would rather dream
than work with obvious truth.

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