Quote Originally Posted by Phunnyman
Hi Boaz,

Hope all is well with you and yours and enjoying a Happy New Year. I agree with your statement and also believe that all those who were profiteering on this need to be held accountable. I'm not a huge fan of the Bush Administration, and I'll even go out on a limb here and state that there where things about them I did like, but overall I wasn't impressed. I feel the same way about the Clinton admin as well. I'm a fan of Ronald Reagan, perhaps its the old comic and actor in me but I liked him for his ability to communicate, he really made me proud to be an American. I like Kennedy too, he could have changed the entire outcome of the sixties and seventies.....

You are absolutely right I think, on the amendment and its purpose. As an advanced country, we should be leading the way in ensuring human rights abuses are not tolerated in any way shape or form. I've always thought that leading by example was the way to go, and not by dictating what others should do. That's my arguement with this congress and our current President, as well as the past eight years before. It's an elitist group, regardless of the ideology, they are not leading by example, and they are certainly not showing any sense of fiscal responsibility or accountability at all. Communism has never worked successfully in any country, and repackaging it and marketing it doesn't change what it really is. Just my opinion.

I wish you the best and hope you have a great week. Hopefully we'll meet in person one day and have a great debate over a wonderful bowl!

G
communism didn't work because you had two global economic systems which both required expansion. capitalism could raise more money, and thus wage a better war. both capitalism and communism work in theory. both have struggled in practice. true capitalism has never been successful without Keynesian type socialist policies to protect the economy. furthermore, capitalism concentrates weath, and without socialist programs wealth cannot be re-redistributed, (i state this bc capitalism redistributes labor into wealth from the working class to the upper class, so it is a type of socialism just in reverse), without re-redistribution, the capitalist system fails, as there is no longer profits, and it'll transform back into feudalism. communism on the other hand, has always been interrupted from the outside or corrupted by the inside. i support neither, just making an indifferent observation.

furthermore these prisons that are corporate run, do violate human rights in the form of slave labor, paying inmates mere pennies an hour. unless you as a capitalist think this is a fair wage... it's a companies dream... as low a wage as they desire, and this is why prisons should not be handed over to capitalists.