QUERY AS TO ECONOMICS & GOVERNMENT

[Rev.Reverence]

*puts on tin hat*

..I was re-reading the constitution...'cause honestly..I don't remember where it sais that America is supposed to be a "capitalist environment"...& I don't see how having a semi-socialist/semi-capitalist environment is not the answer.

[Slogo]

I doesn't say it anywhere at all.

It's just something people are resistant to because of our fears during the Cold War. In truth it's something that can work. It's usually in the most dire times that something must be tried that we haven't done yet. Unfortunately for some (but not most) it's when a lot of ideas are proven to work

[Rev.Reverence]

I doesn't say it anywhere at all.

It's just something people are resistant to because of our fears during the Cold War. In truth it's something that can work. It's usually in the most dire times that something must be tried that we haven't done yet. Unfortunately for some (but not most) it's when a lot of ideas are proven to work

Oh...those-pesky-preconceived-notions-that-some-of-us-inherited-from-our-backwards-For-fathers...

Yeah..that's not a good excuse...not to me...they need to

"get ova' it, & go forward!"

(I said that shit.)

..um...how do I send an email to BIG-O?

Is he not down with communique?

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Capitalism and Socialism can co-exist. Thats not the problem with your scenario, the fact that we (the USA) are a Representative Democracy in the form of a Constitutional Republic is. Thats the part that does not go well with Socialism.

[Der Nister]

..um...how do I send an email to BIG-O?

I thought about sending an email to Obama myself and was trying to find an email address.

If you find one lemme know.

[Rev.Reverence]

Capitalism and Socialism can co-exist. Thats not the problem with your scenario, the fact that we (the USA) are a Representative Democracy in the form of a Constitutional Republic is. Thats the part that does not go well with Socialism.

Why not?

OTHER than the aforementioned preconceptions.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

because Socialism is all about government control of all aspects of our lives to ensure that everyone is equal in every way and so that noone ever has it better than anyone else. Where as a Republic is about limited government that ensures the maximum Liberty of every citizen. The two concepts don't go well together.

[Saint Germain]

..I was re-reading the constitution...'cause honestly..I don't remember where it sais that America is supposed to be a "capitalist environment"...& I don't see how having a semi-socialist/semi-capitalist environment is not the answer.

you mean like "Social market economy"?

[Rev.Reverence]

you mean like "Social market economy"?

I referenced the Wiki-page & yeah I think so...

..I'll need to look more into it to make sure I understand it...the page on it was small.

How did that work out?

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

The Social Market Economy

btw, Germany is the only country in the UE that isn't suffering from this economic down turn. At least, it's the least affected.

[Rev.Reverence]

The Social Market Economy

btw, Germany is the only country in the UE that isn't suffering from this economic down turn. At least, it's the least affected.

Ah...looks nice...I read later..I JUST woke...

...yeah..I think EVERY where in the world is suffering right now..

...I think there's 1 cause.

[Saint Germain]

The Social Market Economy

btw, Germany is the only country in the UE that isn't suffering from this economic down turn. At least, it's the least affected.

Thanks for posting the link.

But it thats not true, some of the big banks have here also problems and Daimler, BMW and Opel are suffering.

Especially Opel as a 100% subsidiary of GM is in deep in the dept. Only Volkswagen Audi and Porsche are doing well.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

I didn't say they (Germany) were completly insulated from it... just not as bad off as everyone else.