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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 05:51 AM Original message |
Neither Capitalism, nor Socialism Made America Great |
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oscarmitre (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 06:19 AM Response to Original message |
1. Is it more accurate to argue it was Keynesianism? n/t |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 06:41 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Not precisely, but point taken... |
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manic expression (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 01:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
25. Keynesianism is very different from socialism |
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mr blur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 06:22 AM Response to Original message |
2. "the greatest society on earth."? |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 06:39 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. We could argue about that, but it is not far off the truth... |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 07:51 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. relative to population size, or in absolute numbers? |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 07:56 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Population size... not percentage... |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 08:09 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. "relative to population size" = percentage |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 08:20 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. We are also not the worst |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 08:32 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. So you agree the US is not the best, |
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eallen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 10:18 AM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Not so. Europe has nigh as many millionaires as the US. And Asia is a close third. |
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brentspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 01:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
22. Allright, I'll play along: give us some alternative "greatest societies on earth" |
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GOPBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 06:56 AM Response to Original message |
5. I agree. The ideal system, I have always believed, is right in the middle |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 07:02 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. I think that is a re-emerging idea with people like Jim Webb |
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manic expression (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 01:06 PM Response to Reply #5 |
21. Is that really ideal |
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emanymton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 07:25 AM Response to Original message |
7. Define - Great. ... Define - America |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 07:44 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. See post 3... |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
11. So American greatness arrived after 1932? |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 08:13 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. You know the history as well as anyone I'm sure |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 10:40 AM Response to Reply #13 |
18. Yes opportunity is easier in an expanding economy, harder to sustain |
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Faryn Balyncd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 08:30 AM Response to Original message |
15. The economic history of America is the history of a . . . . . MIXED ECONOMY . . . . . . . |
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AX10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 12:53 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Buckley actually said that? |
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manic expression (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 01:11 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. Where has that economy gotten us? |
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manic expression (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
20. Are you really serious when you say |
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manic expression (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
24. By the way |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
26. Great Posts ---Just Remember |
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