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To: Joe NYC who wrote (200875)	9/8/2004 1:27:24 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575396

And the Austrians have the same understanding.......so what's your point? Not the one that was quoted in your story. He was using terminology that Eastern Block used, calling themselves Socialsit. I have been trying to explain this to you, how wrong that person was, but you have not been paying attention. Which brings up another question: why to I bother? BTW, in another quote in your story: Norbert Darabos, a ranking official of Austria's opposition Social Democratic Party, sharply criticized Schwarzenegger's "disdain for his former homeland." Message 20486175 It may be interesting for you to know that this party that now calls itself Social Democratic Party used to call itself Socialist Party. The AP story was a one sided hit piece on Arnold. The author made no attempt to get the other side of the story. I feel very comfortable with the quotes from Mr. Polaschek seen below. He seems to understand clearly the terminalogy in question and actually speaks of the Social Dems as well as the conservative People's party. While he said the gov'ts were a coalitions of several parties, all the Chancellors were conservatives. That still might mean that Austria was more socialist than the US but only in degree, not in ideology. The US tends to be the least socialist of all the capitalist countries. However, my position still stands.......on the econ. spectrum from free markets to capitalism to socialism to communism, Austria's economy would be placed under capitalism and not socialism as Arnold asserted. Therefore, he mislead his audience as the article I posted suggests. When is the last time you had an econ. course.......you may be due for a brush up? <font color=brown>"But Martin Polaschek, a law history scholar and vice rector of Graz University, told Kurier that Austria was governed by coalition governments, including the conservative People's Party and the Social Democratic Party. Between 1945 and 1970, all the nation's chancellors were conservatives -- not Socialists. What's more, when Schwarzenegger left in 1968, Austria was run by a conservative government headed by People's Party Chancellor Josef Klaus, a staunch Roman Catholic and a sharp critic of both the Socialists as well as the Communists ruling in countries across the Iron Curtain."