Well first off, you dont get to pick where you are born. Secondly, if you dont like a system than you should exercise your right to change it, not run away. thats what democracy is. btw (mexico and canada are also capitalist).
I never said that you had a choice.
Under the American Constitution, you do have a right to advocate for change, NOT for the overthrow of the entire system. 99% of the country is against you anyway... I ain't too worried about the Socialist party of America taking over anytime soon, lol. Power to the Worker... ha! You just want to take everyone's money (about 70% - 80% if ya follow traditional socialist standards) and give it to a bunch of politicans in Washington because, at the core your philosophies, you don't believe in individuals can handle/deserve their own money. You think a bueracratic machine has to process and handle the money for us anf figure out how to use it and give it back to us. What a joke.... if anything, you are stripping workers of any power they have by taking away the fruits of their labor. What if they wanted to save up and start a business of their own? You know, an independently owned business? Noipe, can't do that. What if they don't like the three-room aprartment the government alloted them? WHat if you don't like the little 3-clyinder Euro car they issued you? Where is the monetary incentive to build and invent, to start new companies? Why should I do that? The government will support me pretty much the same way whether I'm a lawyer or I pump gas!
Look at other Socialist countries. What ahs Sweden/Norway/Holland/Germany produced in the last 50 years? What have their great achivements/inventions been? Sweden makes rollercoasters for us, but then again their engineeers are employed and paid by American companies so I guess you can't really count that. Germany makes some good machinery/cars, but 90% of what they sell they sell to capitalist countries, not their own, so I guess you can't count that one either. Norway and Holland have advanced those oh-so-worthy causes of legal child porn and legalized potheads. Yep, some real achievements. See a pattern? They interact with a Capitalist country, they produce because they have an incentive. Money, a nice house, a nice car, a sense of compensation. Left to their own devices, they create arcane laws in an effort to justify how their own system has "liberated" them from other countries. Legalized child porn and weed. The great pedestals of Socialism! :happy:
I said it once, I'll say it again - I don't trust the politicans with my SS money, let alone 80% of my paycheck!! They're corrupt enough as it is, and you want to give them MORE power!? Thank god you're in the extreme minority.
Im not "capitalizing" on capitalism, if thats what you meant, it wasnt very clear. Despite capitalism, i am able to work 40hour weeks thanks to anti capitalist labor struggles. also i did not have to work as a child, thanks to anti capitalist labor struggles, also i have free speach mainly to anti capitalist labor struggles. I still have no health insurance do to capitalism, and i still have to pay a substansial amount for school, of which thankfully a large portion is paid for by the state (not capitalism).
Once again, I never said that YOU were capitalizing on the system, Ward Churchhill was/is by taking obscene amounts of money (state/federal money - MY MONEY - he bought a bigger hosue with it recently) to spew his hate speech. But I guess you just skipped over that part, punk.
Unions are not anti-capitalist. In fact, they're one of the largest contributors TO capitalism. They have hard workers that produce, earn money, and spend - hence contributing to the capitalist system. There needs to be a balance between the corporation growing/surviving and their workers being fairly compensated for the work they do. If the corporations are too greedy, the workers will not be happy and will not produce/contribute as much. If the workers are too greedy and lazy, the corporation collapses. Of course, some unions wind up gaining way too much power... like the teacher's unions in CA, where you can be a "loud and proud" prostitute and still be allowed to teach children. The corporation should have the final say - after all, they are the ones who created company in the first place and provided the jobs. The workers did not. The workers have the choice to strike or have a work-slow-down (my personal choice - strikes are not as effective) to protest the corporations decision. Unions are not anti-capitalist. They simply band workers together and use their collective talent/skill/CAPITAL (money) to have a say in their pay/job conditions.
Health insurance is actually something I agree with you on. The government has the means to give everyone a minimal health insurance policy. I would agree with this implimentation as long as you are not FORCED to take part in it. If you have been successfull and can afford a better policy, you should be able to purchase it from a private entity. I also don't want to be forced to go to only "government-approved" doctors, hence the need for other private health insurance plans.
As for college, if you do not have the means, then you can work very hard in school for a scholarship. I did. The state/feds will help you out only to a certain point with financial aid, and I agree with that. There must be a semblence of self-reliance in the country. Independence. I don't want some government agency paying for everything I do, because then it feels like they own you. And when they own you, they CONTROL YOU.
Mexico and Canada are not capitalist countries. That's like saying Iraq was a Republic because that's what it said on their (now defunct) official seal, lol. Canada is a Socialist Democracy, getting more and more Socialist all the time, giving more and more power to the government. Mexico is basically a wasteland - its exports are a joke, the only legit money it makes is from American tourism, and every politican up to El Presidentente Foxx is bought off with drug money. They are a country controlled by a Drug Cartel, nothing more.
To explain churchill, because i dont think you heard what he was saying, he was not spewing hate speech he was making an instutional analysis regarding the relation between US foriegn policy actions and their consequences. He believes US policy abroad makes terrorist attacks like 9/11 inevitable and i agree. He wast justifying them. In fact to the contrary his activism is probably doing more to stop terrorism than all the killing the government does.
Oh, I heard what he was saying. He HATES Capitalism. He thinks anyone who participates in the Capitalist system is evil and oppressive. He also thinks they are ALL greedy, stupid, wildly violent, racist, and sexist. That's hate speech. He HATES Capitalists, even though it's that very system that has given him a home, a car, and is paying him over 100K to speak at colleges.
He advocates for the violent overthrow of the government. His wife and himself have physically attacked the media. His wife broke the arm of one female student reporter. Sounds pretty violent to me. He's lied about his nationality (Native American - Cherokee) to beat out ten other Native American professors for the job he currently holds. Sounds pretty racist to me. He can't even get into the Cherokee Nation, and all you need is ONE DESENDENT of Cherokee background to get into that organization, yet he claims he's 50% Cherokee. He's plagarized works of art (when they showed his painting and the original artists side by side on CNN, they were a mirror image of one another) and sold them for profit (selling for profit... is that not yet another facit of capitalism??), has flat out MADE UP historical battles, and has plagarized essays and called them his own.
You said it yourself, my man. He justifies terrorism. He thinks it's better than acceptable, that it's good. He's call the 9/11 victims Nazi's - "little Ikeman's (sp??)" - because they participated in the Capitalist system. Of course, many of the victims in that building created tens of thousands of jobs for the American public, paying out billions in salaries and benefits for work earned, giving the power to the worker. Giving the worker the power to do as he or she wishes with that money. People like him want to take away that right. He wants the government to control the fruits of the public's labor.
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