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To: SilentZ who wrote (319004)	1/6/2007 1:43:54 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1573365

No, why should I be? And why is that a point to make? I haven't the slightest idea why that's relevant. If a little socialism is good, then a lot is much better right? There's too many safety nets now. I never had any money in the first place, did you? We did alright it seems. You don't get tired of politicians buying votes by telling their voters it's all your fault?

To: SilentZ who wrote (319004)	1/7/2007 4:11:16 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573365

They ease people's stress, make them feel good for a few minutes a day, and apparently taste good. If we were able to create chemicals that would give people the same experience without being nearly as harmful as cigarettes, I'd be for banning tobacco cigarettes, too. The only time a cigarette tastes good is when you haven't had one for a few hours or right after you eat. Most of that is the nicotine craving....the rest is satisfying an oral fixation. The rest of the time they taste like garbage and you feel like crap. People who have never smoked have no idea the power of the physical addiction combine with the psychological addiction. The hold it has on people is tremendous. It took me a year to quit using the patch. Its one of the hardest things I have ever done.

To: SilentZ who wrote (319004)	1/9/2007 11:26:59 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573365

South America? - Not many South American countries have been very strong on the idea of a free market. Instead you get either socialists, or "right wing" dictators who run the country for their own benefit and that of their close friends. Chile under Pinochet was fairly free market, and its economy did fairly well. Unfortunately it was also an abusive military dictatorship. Not as abusive as a number of socialist dictatorships that don't seem to draw nearly as much condemnation from the left in America, but still it had a very poor human rights record. But that record was hardly a failure of capitalism.