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To: combjelly who wrote (932348)	4/28/2016 12:13:09 AM
From: Broken_Clock	1 Recommendation Recommended By scamp Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575981

He must be speaking of Corporate Welfare….which has blossomed under Obanker to unprecedented heights. That's what passes for socialism these days.

To: combjelly who wrote (932348)	4/28/2016 9:53:07 AM
From: locogringo	3 Recommendations Recommended By FJB jlallen TideGlider Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575981

Now a lot of Trump followers, at least those who can handle words of more than 1 syllable, You always show your true colors, and it's not pretty. Credibility=zero. Intelligence=none. Common sense=missing. Rabid partisan buffoon=100% and rising. HTH

To: combjelly who wrote (932348)	5/19/2016 1:08:08 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575981

>> Nothing that has happened over the past few years can rationally be described as socialism in this country. You're nuts. The Obamacare program will end up adding 2 trillion over the coming 10 years. We have doubled food stamp usage and I don't know the totals, but we have hugely increased unemployment compensation and other forms of social spending. Over the coming 15 years our annual deficits will exceed a trillion dollars EVERY SINGLE YEAR after next year. And probably 2 Trillion after that. Do the arithmetic, dumbass.

To: combjelly who wrote (932348)	5/31/2016 6:59:30 PM
From: RetiredNow	2 Recommendations Recommended By Kenneth E. Ferguson Tenchusatsu Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575981

Here are some quotes from Greenspan: "We have a global problem of a shortage in productivity growth and it's not only the United States but it's pretty much around the world, and it's being caused by the fact that populations everywhere in the Western world are aging, and we're not committing enough of our resources to fund that. We should be running federal surpluses right now not deficits. This is something we could have anticipated twenty five years ago and in fact we did, but nobody's done anything about it. This is the crisis which has come upon us." "Entitlements are crowding out savings, and hence capital investment. Capital investment is the critical issue in productivity growth, and productivity growth in turn is the crucial issue in economic growth. We're running to a state of disaster unless we turn this around." "This should be the central issue of the presidential debate. Unless and until we can rein in entitlements, which have been rising at a nine percent annual rate in the United States and comparable levels throughout the world, we are going to find that productivity is going to maintain a very low rate of increase" "I don't think that's our problem. Our problem is not recession which is a short-term economic problem, I think youhave a very profound long-term problem of economic growth at the time when in the Western world there is a very large migration from being a worker to being a recipient of social benefits"