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Union Yes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-16-09 08:54 PM
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Replace Washington's portrait on our dollar with a RED STAR.
Since Communism has been the force that has kept our dollar alive.

It took Communism to save capitalism.
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Capn Sunshine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-16-09 08:56 PM
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1. are we auditioning for the Hannity show now?
writers there hit a block?
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Union Yes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-16-09 08:58 PM
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4. Just stating facts.. nt
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-16-09 08:58 PM
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2. It is a bit of delicious irony, isn't it?
"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." V.I. Lenin
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Union Yes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-16-09 09:00 PM
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6. Lenin- One of my heroes. nt
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apocalypsehow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-16-09 09:14 PM
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10. And what a tender, tolerant "progressive" old Vladmir was!:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror

Money quote: "In the Crimea, Bela Kun, with Lenin's approval,<12> had 50,000 White prisoners of war and civilians summarily executed via shooting or hanging after the defeat of general Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel at the end of 1920. They had been promised amnesty if they would surrender, and were then murdered.<13> This is considered one of the largest massacres in the Civil War.<14>"

With a charmer like that, who needs fan clubs?

( :eyes: )

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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-16-09 08:58 PM
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3. no...it took crushing oppression of a billion + people
to keep us up and running...whether or not capitalism has been saved is yet to be seen.

sP
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-16-09 08:59 PM
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5. Are you speaking of "communism" in general or the "Corporate Communism"
...that Dylan Rattigan talks about:

The Cost of Corporate Communism

Lately I have been using the phrase "Corporate Communism" on my television show. I think it is an especially fitting term when discussing the current landscape in both our banking and health care systems.

As Americans, I believe we reject communism because it historically has allowed a tiny group of people to consolidate complete control over national resources (including people), in the process stifling competition, freedom and choice. It leaves its citizens stagnating under the perpetual broken systems with no natural motivation to innovate, improve services or reduce costs.

Lack of choice, lazy, unresponsive customer service, a culture of exploitation and a small powerbase formed by cronyism and nepotism are the hallmarks of a communist system that steals from its citizenry and a major reason why America spent half a century fighting a Cold War with the U.S.S.R.

And yet today we find ourselves as a country in two distinctly different categories: those who are forced to compete tooth and nail each day to provide value to society in return for income for ourselves and our families and those who would instead use our lawmaking apparatus to help themselves to our tax money and/or to protect themselves from true competition.


--more--
Huffington Post
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Union Yes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-16-09 09:05 PM
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7. I'm referring to the 12+ Trillion dollar lifeline from China.
Communist cash has kept America out of bankruptcy as a nation for the past 30 years.

Capitalism requires Communism in order to sustain.

Interesting read you posted, thanks.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-16-09 09:06 PM
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8. The loony bin gates are open
:rofl: :spray:
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Union Yes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-16-09 09:13 PM
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9. B-But...
Could America have survived the past 30 years without the $12 Trillion lifeline from Communist China?

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readmoreoften Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-17-09 12:17 AM
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11. China is a worker run state? Could've fooled me. Looks like capitalism to me.
China is "communist" in name only. Hell, most of the people fighting for democracy over there are "communists" fighting for real communism!
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