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To: KLP who wrote (10187)	1/28/2006 3:37:01 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541345

>>Some anticommunists, particularly those with libertarian leanings, extend their criticisms well beyond Soviet-style communism, associating it with any state-run activity beyond the most minimal. << Yes, we noticed...

To: KLP who wrote (10187)	2/5/2006 12:22:09 AM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541345

>>They also claim that in some former Communist countries, conditions were better before its collapse.<< The real collapse of the former USSR and the entire East Bloc was the fact that these overtly collectivist nations and their governments found that they could not deliver the future economic goods promised. From Poland to Siberia, the government ended up walking away from their promises and left the many millions of individuals there to fend for themselves. This reminds me a bit of the social security predicament in the USA moving forward. But everybody will probably get all that they are "entitled" to by the straightforward means of the Fed printing out of thin air the US Dollars required.