Americans do not truly understand or appreciate Liberty.

[Persuader]

Individual freedom can only exist in the context of free-market capitalism. Personal freedom thrives in capitalism, declines in government-regulated economies, and vanishes in communism. Aside from better economic and legislative policies, what America needs is a more intense appreciation for individual freedom and capitalism.

I was born and raised in communist Romania during the Cold War, a country in which the government owned all the resources and means of production. The state controlled almost every aspect of our lives: our education, our job placement, the time of day we could have hot water, and what we were allowed to say.

Like the rest of the Eastern European countries, Romania was often referred to as a communist country. In school, we were taught it was a socialist country. Its name prior to the 1989 Revolution to overthrow the Ceausescu regime was the Socialist Republic of Romania.

From an economic standpoint, a petty fraction of property was still privately owned. In a communist system, all property is owned by the state. So if it wasn’t a true communist economy, its heavy central planning and the application of a totalitarian control over the Romanian citizenry made this nation rightfully gain its title of a communist country.

 

[pknopp]

Individual freedom can only exist in the context of free-market capitalism.

Which is never going to exist.

 

[gipper]

The US is becoming more like a Soviet republic everyday. Somehow many Americans are unaware or concerned.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Individual freedom can only exist in the context of free-market capitalism. Personal freedom thrives in capitalism, declines in government-regulated economies, and vanishes in communism. Aside from better economic and legislative policies, what America needs is a more intense appreciation for individual freedom and capitalism.

I was born and raised in communist Romania during the Cold War, a country in which the government owned all the resources and means of production. The state controlled almost every aspect of our lives: our education, our job placement, the time of day we could have hot water, and what we were allowed to say.

Like the rest of the Eastern European countries, Romania was often referred to as a communist country. In school, we were taught it was a socialist country. Its name prior to the 1989 Revolution to overthrow the Ceausescu regime was the Socialist Republic of Romania.

From an economic standpoint, a petty fraction of property was still privately owned. In a communist system, all property is owned by the state. So if it wasn’t a true communist economy, its heavy central planning and the application of a totalitarian control over the Romanian citizenry made this nation rightfully gain its title of a communist country.

Except the United States economy has been a mix of capitalism and socialism for almost a century now. Which is why is works.

 

[gipper]

Except the United States economy has been a mix of capitalism and socialism for almost a century now. Which is why is works.

Our economy was at one time a combination, but no longer. It is far closer to Fascism, than anything else. Big government and big business have combined.

 

[gipper]

Ralph Nader touched on this topic…

“The sign of a decaying democracy is that when the forces of plutocracy, oligarchy, multinational corporations increase their power, in all sectors of our society, the resistance gets weaker,” Nader tells Hedges.

Nader asks people to look around them and witness the decay through the ordinary parts of their lives. “If you just look at the countervailing forces that hold up a society—civilized norms, due process of law and democratic traditions—they’re all either AWOL [absent without official leave] or collapsing,” he said. Civic groups are outnumbered by corporate lobbyists, the media barely pays attention to any grassroots organizing and the protests that do occur, such as the encampments at universities, are brutally suppressed.

 

[BluesLegend]

$36 TRILLION in debt tells us where the country is headed, disaster.

 

[gipper]

$36 TRILLION in debt tells us where the country is headed, disaster.

You’d think with that massive debt we’d have the world’s best of everything. Infrastructure, healthcare, education, housing, etc. yet we don’t.

This is a criminal fraud committed on the American people, but they aren’t even aware.

 

[BluesLegend]

You’d think with that massive debt we’d have the world’s best of everything. Infrastructure, healthcare, education, housing, etc. yet we don’t.

This is a criminal fraud committed on the American people, but they aren’t even aware.

^^^ winning post of the year!! Exactly, shit should be paved in gold. Just the Feds have borrowed and taxed and spent $40 trillion in just the past 10 years. That's $40,000 BILLION holy shit!

That's $121,000 for every man, woman and child in the country.

 

[gipper]

^^^ winning post of the year!! Exactly, shit should be paved in gold. Just the Feds have borrowed and taxed and spent $40 trillion in just the past 10 years. That's $40,000 BILLION holy shit!

That's $121,000 for every man, woman and child in the country.

Agreed.

We know where much of that money went. Right into the pockets of the .01%.

 

[Independent thinker]

Individual freedom can only exist in the context of free-market capitalism. Personal freedom thrives in capitalism, declines in government-regulated economies, and vanishes in communism. Aside from better economic and legislative policies, what America needs is a more intense appreciation for individual freedom and capitalism.

I was born and raised in communist Romania during the Cold War, a country in which the government owned all the resources and means of production. The state controlled almost every aspect of our lives: our education, our job placement, the time of day we could have hot water, and what we were allowed to say.

Like the rest of the Eastern European countries, Romania was often referred to as a communist country. In school, we were taught it was a socialist country. Its name prior to the 1989 Revolution to overthrow the Ceausescu regime was the Socialist Republic of Romania.

From an economic standpoint, a petty fraction of property was still privately owned. In a communist system, all property is owned by the state. So if it wasn’t a true communist economy, its heavy central planning and the application of a totalitarian control over the Romanian citizenry made this nation rightfully gain its title of a communist country.

Democrats have lost quite a few Hispanics who actually migrated to this country because they had first hand experience that "Democratic Socialism" ultimately leads to just socialism, not democratic socialism.

 

[TimFitz]

$36 TRILLION in debt tells us where the country is headed, disaster.

Don’t worry.

You’ll stop worrying about it as soon as Trump tells you it doesn’t matter.

The GOP was ready to hand him a budget that added another $4.5 billion to the national debt. And he was ready to sign it.

And this is only after 45 days.

 

[Contumacious]

Individual freedom can only exist in the context of free-market capitalism. Personal freedom thrives in capitalism, declines in government-regulated economies, and vanishes in communism. Aside from better economic and legislative policies, what America needs is a more intense appreciation for individual freedom and capitalism.

I was born and raised in communist Romania during the Cold War, a country in which the government owned all the resources and means of production. The state controlled almost every aspect of our lives: our education, our job placement, the time of day we could have hot water, and what we were allowed to say.

Like the rest of the Eastern European countries, Romania was often referred to as a communist country. In school, we were taught it was a socialist country. Its name prior to the 1989 Revolution to overthrow the Ceausescu regime was the Socialist Republic of Romania.

From an economic standpoint, a petty fraction of property was still privately owned. In a communist system, all property is owned by the state. So if it wasn’t a true communist economy, its heavy central planning and the application of a totalitarian control over the Romanian citizenry made this nation rightfully gain its title of a communist country.

Unfortunately Americans spend 12 hours a day for twelve years learning to be slaves of the socialist state​

​

The Educational Octopus​

Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. –

Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine (1943)

 

[eagle1462010]

Free Trade is A LIE Even under Free Trade agreements products are TARIFFED.

VAT taxes are another way of a BACK DOOR TAX

Why we cant sell autos in the EU.

But THEY SAY ITS FAIR AMERICA.

 

[Crepitus]

Individual freedom can only exist in the context of free-market capitalism. Personal freedom thrives in capitalism, declines in government-regulated economies, and vanishes in communism. Aside from better economic and legislative policies, what America needs is a more intense appreciation for individual freedom and capitalism.

I was born and raised in communist Romania during the Cold War, a country in which the government owned all the resources and means of production. The state controlled almost every aspect of our lives: our education, our job placement, the time of day we could have hot water, and what we were allowed to say.

Like the rest of the Eastern European countries, Romania was often referred to as a communist country. In school, we were taught it was a socialist country. Its name prior to the 1989 Revolution to overthrow the Ceausescu regime was the Socialist Republic of Romania.

From an economic standpoint, a petty fraction of property was still privately owned. In a communist system, all property is owned by the state. So if it wasn’t a true communist economy, its heavy central planning and the application of a totalitarian control over the Romanian citizenry made this nation rightfully gain its title of a communist country.

Capitalism only engenders freedom when properly regulated.

 

[BluesLegend]

Don’t worry.

You’ll stop worrying about it as soon as Trump tells you it doesn’t matter.

The GOP was ready to hand him a budget that added another $4.5 billion to the national debt. And he was ready to sign it.

And this is only after 45 days.

Shut up troll boy. A whole "$4.5 billion" you say, if you are going to troll at least don't look like a moron doing it.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Except the United States economy has been a mix of capitalism and socialism for almost a century now. Which is why is works.

Does it?

https://www.usdebtclock.org/

 

[0311]

Individual freedom can only exist in the context of free-market capitalism. Personal freedom thrives in capitalism, declines in government-regulated economies, and vanishes in communism. Aside from better economic and legislative policies, what America needs is a more intense appreciation for individual freedom and capitalism.

I was born and raised in communist Romania during the Cold War, a country in which the government owned all the resources and means of production. The state controlled almost every aspect of our lives: our education, our job placement, the time of day we could have hot water, and what we were allowed to say.

Like the rest of the Eastern European countries, Romania was often referred to as a communist country. In school, we were taught it was a socialist country. Its name prior to the 1989 Revolution to overthrow the Ceausescu regime was the Socialist Republic of Romania.

From an economic standpoint, a petty fraction of property was still privately owned. In a communist system, all property is owned by the state. So if it wasn’t a true communist economy, its heavy central planning and the application of a totalitarian control over the Romanian citizenry made this nation rightfully gain its title of a communist country.

There is no such thing as a "Free Market", a fiction created the greedy rich. The Government controls the market.

 

[dblack]

Individual freedom can only exist in the context of free-market capitalism. Personal freedom thrives in capitalism, declines in government-regulated economies, and vanishes in communism. Aside from better economic and legislative policies, what America needs is a more intense appreciation for individual freedom and capitalism.

I was born and raised in communist Romania during the Cold War, a country in which the government owned all the resources and means of production. The state controlled almost every aspect of our lives: our education, our job placement, the time of day we could have hot water, and what we were allowed to say.

Like the rest of the Eastern European countries, Romania was often referred to as a communist country. In school, we were taught it was a socialist country. Its name prior to the 1989 Revolution to overthrow the Ceausescu regime was the Socialist Republic of Romania.

From an economic standpoint, a petty fraction of property was still privately owned. In a communist system, all property is owned by the state. So if it wasn’t a true communist economy, its heavy central planning and the application of a totalitarian control over the Romanian citizenry made this nation rightfully gain its title of a communist country.

Well said. Any, leaders talking about this?

 

[dblack]

There is no such thing as a "Free Market", a fiction created the greedy rich. The Government controls the market.

Yes, yes, yes. There's no such thing as freedom. Freedom is slavery.

Or so I have read.