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Dalai Lama discusses Socialism and Bernie Sanders (Original Post) RoccoR5955 Mar 2016 OP
We need more enlightenment in our Country Jenny_92808 Mar 2016 #1
Shame on you and Dalai Lama Gwhittey Mar 2016 #2
Such a radical, that Dalai Lama marions ghost Mar 2016 #3
Great post. K&R! Duval Mar 2016 #4
KnR nt chknltl Mar 2016 #5
 

Jenny_92808

(1,342 posts)
1. We need more enlightenment in our Country
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 11:59 AM
Mar 2016

"The Dalai Lama finds no fault with people making money but instead points out that one only needs so much money for oneself before it becomes surplus. “Billionaires have the same size of stomach, same size of body. So therefore, your money… there’s a limit for oneself isn’t it?”

 

Gwhittey

(1,377 posts)
2. Shame on you and Dalai Lama
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 12:04 PM
Mar 2016

It is so hard for us peasents to understand the blight of the royality. It must be hard to have to spend money and not horde it. Just watch this movie and you will get a better understanding

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)
3. Such a radical, that Dalai Lama
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 12:33 PM
Mar 2016

...capitalism that works for all, not just the few. Radical.

"Bernie Sanders would seem to agree: “What being a socialist means is … that you hold out … a vision of society where poverty is absolutely unnecessary, where international relations are not based on greed … but on cooperation … where human beings can own the means of production and work together rather than having to work as semi-slaves to other people who can hire and fire.” The Dalai Lama couldn’t have said it better himself."

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