Friday, March 25, 2016
My God, when does it end with Obama?
President Obama has stoked controversy after he suggested to an audience of Argentinian youth that there was no great difference between communism and capitalism and that they should just “choose from what works”.
Obama responded to a question about nonprofit community organizations and the necessity of attracting funding from both the public and private sectors.
“So often in the past there has been a division between left and right, between capitalists and communists or socialists, and especially in the Americas, that’s been a big debate,” Obama said.
“Those are interesting intellectual arguments, but I think for your generation, you should be practical and just choose from what works. You don’t have to worry about whether it really fits into socialist theory or capitalist theory. You should just decide what works,” he added.
Obama went on to praise Cuba’s socialist system under dictator Raúl Castro, touting the country’s free access to basic education and health care, although he acknowledged that Havana itself “looks like it did in the 1950s” because the economy is “not working”.
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Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people for electing this POS twice.
ReplyDeleteAnd Republicans have no culpability for running shitty candidates?
ReplyDeleteLike I said, never underestimate.
DeleteOf course William Obama is as usual talking way over your head. He is not condoning communism, socialism or even the Cuban dictatorship. What he is saying is that what works for America, capitalism, may not be right for Argentina, and maybe a socialist system or communism would work better for them. Of course you are as usual hung up on the notion that a social society or even a communist society has to be a dictatorial society. Unfortunately they most always have been except the socialist societies in Europe. But communism doesn't have to be a dictatorial, one party affair. that's just how it always has been and I don't know if any country has ever tried it any other way. Communism is just extreme socialism where everyone works for the common good and the government controls everything. A rising country just might figure out how to make it all work for the common good some day and figure out how to do it within the realm of democracy. Many European countries certainly figured out how to be socialist and free, many with a lot more freedoms then we have here. Leave the world of black and white William and look into the grey areas once in a while.
ReplyDeleteOf course he is advocating communism. That's who he is. It shows you where we have come to. We have a communist candidate controlling half of what's left of the democrat party. We have our president running around the hemisphere kissing communists asses. Just like the Muslim Brotherhood asses he was kissing in the middle east.
Delete"What do the poor most need? They need to stop being poor. And how can that be done, on a mass scale, except by an economy that creates vastly more wealth? Yet the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it.”
ReplyDelete― Thomas Sowell, Controversial Essays
"Yet the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it.”
DeleteThis is pure bullshit. Have a nice day.
“we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business,"
Delete-Hillary Clinton
That's a typical response to cherry pick the outrage producing quote from the middle of what she said. Has it occurred to you that fracking might be causing far more damage to the coal industry than what Democrats are doing?
DeleteThe coal industry, to me, represents perfectly how owned our government is by lobbyists. Even I would admit we do not have enough sources of energy yet that would allow us to get off coal. Yet, it is undeniable that coal is dirty, it puts miners in their graves earlier than a lot of other occupations, and there is a constant battle by mine owners to skirt every regulation they can. But, the representatives who live in coal counties, will fight to the death to protect the industry. Same thing for representatives who live in areas of factory farming wherein mega corps suck up billions in subsidies. But, I get that making the claim that the left does not understand anything about the creation is appealing. Like labels, it makes life easier to just throw this kind of stuff against the wall like it's something thoughtful and substantive.
Fidel Castro disagrees with you: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/fidel-castro-obama-221279
ReplyDeleteI am honored.
DeleteThe average Cuban salary is .67 per day.
Viva La Revolucion!
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/06/17/average-salary-in-cuba-rose-1-pct-last-year-to-20-month/
http://news.yahoo.com/unusual-dissent-erupts-inside-cuban-communist-party-045721166.html
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