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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 01:43 PM
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FDR Was A Communist
"Why would George Bush advocate removing up to 4% of FICA taxes from the social security system when it would not even close the future gap between benefits and receipts?

Because it is communist.

In 1932 Hoover said ‘They are proposing changes and so-called new deals which would destroy the very foundations of our American system” and that the New Deal was “ the same philosophy of government which has poisoned all Europe .” At the time, he was speaking of communism and strict socialism.

Today, in a speech paying tribute to Adam Smith, Alan Greenspan resurrected that old canard when he said “the Great Depression of the 1930s did provide support for a time to those who argued that communism, with its government control of economic decisions, represented a better approach.”

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=331
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 01:46 PM
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1. Greenspan is an anti-democracy war enabler.
We will probably have another Depression during his tenure.
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 01:52 PM
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2. Tabasco, read Ch. 8 of "Perfectly Legal" re socal security...
Greenspan is following the same m.o. as with the 1981 Reagan tax cuts. Fast forward to 2001 tax cuts and begin there, asking the same questions Sen Moynihan did and you come to pretty much the same conclusion he did...
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JohnOneillsMemory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 02:29 PM
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3. "Gov't control of economic decisions" is all the White House has done
Edited on Mon Feb-07-05 02:31 PM by JohnOneillsMemory
for the last 100 years and more.

'We the People' has been successfully cast as a 'special interest group.'


That video of the 'Red State Tour' that asks people what they need in their lives (jobs, healthcare) and who they voted for (Bush**) illustrates this perfectly.

The 'free market' is a propaganda lie to suggest wealth=virtue.
Any regs that make the rich better off are 'American.'
Any regs that make the poor better off are 'Communist.'

This is how our lives are Orwellified by fascists who used the Red Scare to demonize the word 'liberal' to make the people think we were our own enemy and the rich would save us from ourselves.

Oh, and now 'freedom' is mandatory.


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