Why Is Socialism Doing So Darn Well in Deep-Red North Dakota?

[sitarro]

You can get a job in NoDak right now with nothing more than a demonstratable pulse. It doesn't even have to be a normal one. That's all good. Fracking may end up poisoning the water after the boom is over, but for now it's high times in one of the most forlorn and uninteresting states in the union.

Don't let anyone call you a dumb **** because really..... you aren't....really....... Parrot.

 

[sitarro]

Yeah, cuba's just been busted big time for their child sex trade. Even advertise their kids on line.

What a wonderful socialist world.

Yea but at least their superior health care system was able to save the wonderful Hugo Chavez......wait! Never mind....

Nobody's healthcare system was going to save Hugo from his cancer.

Really....... my brother had cancer 10 years ago and is doing very well, M.D. Anderson is quite a place.......same hospital that Phil Michelson brought his Wife and Mother, they seem to be doing quite well also.
But if you say so.

 

[Wicked Jester]

The population of ND is 699,628 hardly a suburb of NYC. So to compare how 330,000,000 million live together to that of a very small and spread out people is really, really idiotic.

Yeah, well, it's Lakhota soooooo, "idiotic" is all you're gonna get.....Along with links to Alternet, and other assorted idiotic left wing BS propoganda sites.

 

[Erand7899]

Much More: Why Is Socialism Doing So Darn Well in Deep-Red North Dakota? | Alternet

Very simple! It is called Laissez-faire (or sometimes laisser-faire) is an economic environment in which transactions between private parties are free from tariffs, government subsidies and if it works for them God bless em!

The issue is does socialism work FOR EVERYONE. History has pointed out there has never been as successful society as the USA which is NOT a socialistic based economy. No one every said socialism wouldn't work. It works in small closed environments but will NOT work in
50 independent states with thousands of independent towns and counties and independent people all standing around waiting for central planners to determine how much we all should pay for gas!
What country is more ethnically diverse, USA, Brazil or South Africa?
1st - USA
2nd - Brazil
3rd - South Africa

Brazil has the largest number of italian, lebanese and japanese descendants and the second largest number of german descendants in the world. USA has the largest number of german descendants. There are almost all nationalities in Brazil,
but USA has even more: philippine, thai, korean, hindustani etc (that kind of nationality is rare in Brazil).

So how can there be any socialism with 310 million people EACH with their own identity and very little national cohesion but greater cohesion
in their homes, cities, counties, state!
No one ever said Socialism doesn't work... but not on the grand scale of the USA!

What bullshit. Socialism is alive and well in the US. In fact, our National Park System is the very definition of socialism, saving the very best and most unique for the enjoyment of all citizens, and it is the crown jewel of our nation. Our BLM and National Forest Systems are also very successful, and have preserved lands that would have otherwise been devastated by unwise use. Social Security has, for the most of us, eliminated the spector of grinding poverty in old age. There are many other examples of socialism on a national scale implemented for a short time in emergencies that worked very well. The WPA, CCCs, REA, and many others that helped build this nation.

All you wanna-be liberal/socialists ought to do a little research and find out what socialism really is. It is not national parks, it is not state banks, it is not highways or libraries, and it is definitely not BLM. It is social security. It is medicare/medicaid/Obamacare. It is food stamps, child care credits, and earned income credits.

 

[LeftofLeft]

By Les Leopold

North Dakota's thriving state bank makes a mockery of Wall Street's casino banking system -- and that's why financial elites want to crush it.

North Dakota is the very definition of a red state. It voted 58 percent to 39 percent for Romney over Obama, and its statehouse and senate have a total of 104 Republicans and only 47 Democrats. The Republican super-majority is so conservative it recently passed the nation's most severe anti-abortion resolution – a measure that declares a fertilized human egg has the same right to life as a fully formed person.

But North Dakota is also red in another sense: it fully supports its state-owned Bank of North Dakota (BND), a socialist relic that exists nowhere else in America. Why is financial socialism still alive in North Dakota? Why haven't the North Dakotan free-market crusaders slain it dead?

Because it works.

Much More: Why Is Socialism Doing So Darn Well in Deep-Red North Dakota? | Alternet

Here's what works for North Dakota: Oil. They drill their way out of a bad economy, contribute to make US less dependent on terrorist or fascist state oil. In order for a socialist programs to be successful, the economy must be be decidedly and majority Capitalist. Otherwise, who is going to pay for it?

 

[jon_berzerk]

By Les Leopold

North Dakota's thriving state bank makes a mockery of Wall Street's casino banking system -- and that's why financial elites want to crush it.

North Dakota is the very definition of a red state. It voted 58 percent to 39 percent for Romney over Obama, and its statehouse and senate have a total of 104 Republicans and only 47 Democrats. The Republican super-majority is so conservative it recently passed the nation's most severe anti-abortion resolution – a measure that declares a fertilized human egg has the same right to life as a fully formed person.

But North Dakota is also red in another sense: it fully supports its state-owned Bank of North Dakota (BND), a socialist relic that exists nowhere else in America. Why is financial socialism still alive in North Dakota? Why haven't the North Dakotan free-market crusaders slain it dead?

Because it works.

Much More: Why Is Socialism Doing So Darn Well in Deep-Red North Dakota? | Alternet

Here's what works for North Dakota: Oil. They drill their way out of a bad economy, contribute to make US less dependent on terrorist or fascist state oil. In order for a socialist programs to be successful, the economy must be be decidedly and majority Capitalist. Otherwise, who is going to pay for it?

eventually you run out of the makers

 

[jon_berzerk]

I wonder if Dakota farmers have ever accepted agriculture subsidies or help? Maybe one or two, right?

do you suppose that is what got their economy a rockin

--LOL

 

[freedombecki]

By Les Leopold

North Dakota's thriving state bank makes a mockery of Wall Street's casino banking system -- and that's why financial elites want to crush it.

North Dakota is the very definition of a red state. It voted 58 percent to 39 percent for Romney over Obama, and its statehouse and senate have a total of 104 Republicans and only 47 Democrats. The Republican super-majority is so conservative it recently passed the nation's most severe anti-abortion resolution – a measure that declares a fertilized human egg has the same right to life as a fully formed person.

But North Dakota is also red in another sense: it fully supports its state-owned Bank of North Dakota (BND), a socialist relic that exists nowhere else in America. Why is financial socialism still alive in North Dakota? Why haven't the North Dakotan free-market crusaders slain it dead?

Because it works.

Much More: Why Is Socialism Doing So Darn Well in Deep-Red North Dakota? | Alternet

Four North Dakota counties are among the 100 poorest counties in the America. I'm sorry to hear it, Lakota. Land Grab lawsuits over oil shale reserve expropriated by US government from North Dakota's Lakota reservation lands.

Maybe your ship will come in one of these days.

 

[buckeye45_73]

Much More: Why Is Socialism Doing So Darn Well in Deep-Red North Dakota? | Alternet

Very simple! It is called Laissez-faire (or sometimes laisser-faire) is an economic environment in which transactions between private parties are free from tariffs, government subsidies and if it works for them God bless em!

The issue is does socialism work FOR EVERYONE. History has pointed out there has never been as successful society as the USA which is NOT a socialistic based economy. No one every said socialism wouldn't work. It works in small closed environments but will NOT work in
50 independent states with thousands of independent towns and counties and independent people all standing around waiting for central planners to determine how much we all should pay for gas!
What country is more ethnically diverse, USA, Brazil or South Africa?
1st - USA
2nd - Brazil
3rd - South Africa

Brazil has the largest number of italian, lebanese and japanese descendants and the second largest number of german descendants in the world. USA has the largest number of german descendants. There are almost all nationalities in Brazil,
but USA has even more: philippine, thai, korean, hindustani etc (that kind of nationality is rare in Brazil).

So how can there be any socialism with 310 million people EACH with their own identity and very little national cohesion but greater cohesion
in their homes, cities, counties, state!
No one ever said Socialism doesn't work... but not on the grand scale of the USA!

What bullshit. Socialism is alive and well in the US. In fact, our National Park System is the very definition of socialism, saving the very best and most unique for the enjoyment of all citizens, and it is the crown jewel of our nation. Our BLM and National Forest Systems are also very successful, and have preserved lands that would have otherwise been devastated by unwise use. Social Security has, for the most of us, eliminated the spector of grinding poverty in old age. There are many other examples of socialism on a national scale implemented for a short time in emergencies that worked very well. The WPA, CCCs, REA, and many others that helped build this nation.

WAit are you seriously saying because the national park system is good, that we should have socialism in our entire economy? Is that what I'm hearing?