On Nov 3, 9:47 am, Joe Bruno wrote:
On Nov 3, 6:45 am, "His Highness the TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser









Philosopher" wrote:
On Nov 3, 9:27 am, Joe Bruno wrote:

On Nov 3, 6:17 am, "His Highness the TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser

Philosopher" wrote:
On Nov 1, 7:44 pm, Nickname unavailable wrote:

the old economy(free market economics, free trade, globalism)is
collapsing.

Yes, it is. It's too successful in unleashing GREED AND CORRUPTION and
then it crumbles.

Europe is turning to communism (China) to survive, America is broke,
and the mother of "democracy" and tragedy (Greece) is having a
referendum that could mean the coup de grace to consumerism.

The hope is to increase taxation ONLY after fighting corruption. Drop
the stupid war on drugs and fight corruption instead. Our rampant
waste --visible in SUVs and blinding lighting everywhere-- will go to
fund public transportation and alternative technologies by adding an
ENERGY TAX to reflect environmental damage, obesity, etc, similar to
cigarettes.

Otherwise we can join China which is said to have good public
transportation and protect cyclists. Our financial capital may be in
Beijing, so be it. Learn to eat with chopsticks.

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The Chinese are in the process of dismantling their Communism and have
been since the late
1980s.

Only in the economic sense. In politics they are as antidemocratic as
ever. We in America are not pure capitalist either. "Socialism"
extends to many monopolies such as Florida Power & Light.

Social security is very socialist too. So is Medicare.

There we go. We and China may be merging into a hybrid system of
capitalism/communism similar to Yin-Yang. They become more capitalist
and we become more antidemocratic. We do have a formal democracy, but
they know "democracy" offers little risk in Christian hands.

But shouldn't we talking about GOOD SOCIALISM and BAD SOCIALISM? Roads
are socialism too, but around here they are more like anarchism.
Naturally the little fish have no place in it.