Prior to Castro coming to power, Cuba had one of the highest standards of living in Latin America. Cubans lived better than Spaniards. Cuba is now a third-world nation. Ask yourself why that is.
The CIA unquestioningly accepts whatever improbable statistics Castro pulls out of his ass. For example, when Soviet aid ended, there was widespread hunger and malnutrition, causing the Cuban government to ease up on political control of food.
Pinkertons were only employed when union goons were trying to murder - or had already murdered - replacement workers during strikes, as was the case at Homestead.
"The Jungle" was a work of fiction. There is said to exist an authoritative 1906 report from the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Animal Husbandry that refuted Sinclair's allegations, though this report has probably been buried deep due to its political incorrectness. Today, private companies such as McDonalds have meat safety and inspection standards exceeding what is mandated by federal law, and their meat is safer than what is found in school lunches.
From government-run public schools. What's your solution to that? Eliminate public education? So only rich people's children can be educated?
Not all home-schooled children are from wealthy families.
The market for inexpensive education is crowded out by government schools, which serve to indoctrinate, not educate.
Ad-hominem: when you can't refute the source, attack it. No matter that the Boston Globe's source for the story is the government's own surveys and reports.
Which is why most of the Nordic states and all of the Scandinavian nations are not knee deep in debt.
Norway's debt-to-GDP ratio is 60.20. The United States is 52.90. Outside of Scandinavia, France is at 79.70, and Germany is at 77.20.
It seemed the "socialist" nations balanced the books and survived the GFC. BTW, I'm using your definition of socialism, which means any nations that has social services,
That isn't my definition of socialism, that's evidently the previous poster's definition (he said "balanced" socialism).
Wow, citation needed, I can vouch for Sweden, Australia and the UK that if it comes out of a woman with a pulse, it's considered alive.
This compares America's infant mortality rates with that of Europe. America also has more premature births than Sweden, which further skews the statistics.
If there was one person dying of "poverty", which in America is basically equivalent to a middle-class lifestyle in many Western European countries, the media would parade that person on every national television channel for the next ten years.
Infant mortality statistics cannot be compared between the America and Europe, since in some countries babies born below a certain size or weight are not counted as live births, unlike in America.
"Balanced" socialism has gotten us unsustainable debt, which is bankrupting Europe, and will eventually bankrupt America as well.
The Soviet government routinely dumped fresh high level radioactive waste directly into runoff drains, rivers and harbors. Entire towns and villages were literally removed from the map after chemical or nuclear incidents. In the United States, it's the Federal government that's the largest polluter, contaminating more sites, with greater cleanup costs than sites contaminated by private industry.
do i need to count the number of disasters that private organizations bestowed this planet, ranging from numerous exxon valdezes to poisoning of millions by pfizer production plants in india ?
The thing is, Capitalism + Democracy are "sold" to the masses as Freedom.
Private property rights in the means of production (capitalism) is what separates one man's plan from another man's plan. Without it, there can only be one plan for all, imposed with terror from the top-down.
(not quite so: the US' upwards-mobility rating is lower than most countries).
No doubt according to heavily massaged statistics using some incomprehensible methodology.
Instead, if we look at where the wealthiest people in America come from, we see that the majority of them (around two-thirds) are self-made, and a list of the wealthiest people shows substantial turnover in a generation. This indicates substantial social mobility. How many of the wealthiest Western Europeans are self-made?
Only if mainstream Republicans advocate a form of guild socialism - central planning, where market competition is suppressed by the State, and sectors of society and the economy, such as agriculture, business, labor, etc. are regimented by the State into organizations subservient to it, and forced to negotiate with each other to establish policies in the interest of the State.
Are talking about the guy that smashed the workers organisations, physically eliminated the entire left wing in Germany and wherever he could find them, killed everyone that was even remotely considered to be aligned with the left (writers, artists, intellectuals etc. and in general killed just about everyone who disagreed with him)
So in other words, Hitler did the same as any other socialist in power.
all the while providing slave labor to corporations who had funded him liberally?
The NSDAP was funded primarily by large amounts of small donations from individuals, not by big corporations.
Do you honestly, truly believe that "liberals" want to reduce CO2 output because this will somehow hurt you?
The goal of "environmentalists" is the destruction of Western civilization. Observe that all methods of CO2 emission reduction that do not require the destruction of Western civilization have been rejected, such as nuclear power.
It's funny. Some people seem to have no problem with big corporations controlling almost every aspect of their lives, but take offense at mere suggestions from people trying to look out for them.
Government mandates at the point of a gun or baton aren't exactly "mere suggestions".
Take off your blinders and understand that our economic system and our society exist ONLY because there are government regulations to hold it together.
Capitalism and society are perfectly capable of existing without government.
"Yep, history sure has shown how pure, fair, reliable, trustworthy, and incorruptible corporations are. Uh-huh."
Compare the numbers of people murdered by government with the numbers murdered by corporations.
When you remove law enforcement from an area people revert back to their "natural" state, robbing, pillaging, raping, and assaulting. For references, see looters in natural disasters, crime reports during blackouts, etc.
"Looters will be shot."
Problem solved.
In the marketplace, without regulation, people with more power will perpetrate this in people with less.
And who better to give a monopoly of force to than the robbers, pillagers and rapists!
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The Cuban government has the means to make the CIA website say what they want?
Or rather, the CIA unquestioningly reports whatever Castro, and other dictators pull out of their ass.
Prior to Castro coming to power, Cuba had one of the highest standards of living in Latin America. Cubans lived better than Spaniards. Cuba is now a third-world nation. Ask yourself why that is.
The CIA unquestioningly accepts whatever improbable statistics Castro pulls out of his ass. For example, when Soviet aid ended, there was widespread hunger and malnutrition, causing the Cuban government to ease up on political control of food.
Pinkertons were only employed when union goons were trying to murder - or had already murdered - replacement workers during strikes, as was the case at Homestead.
"The Jungle" was a work of fiction. There is said to exist an authoritative 1906 report from the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Animal Husbandry that refuted Sinclair's allegations, though this report has probably been buried deep due to its political incorrectness. Today, private companies such as McDonalds have meat safety and inspection standards exceeding what is mandated by federal law, and their meat is safer than what is found in school lunches.
Not all home-schooled children are from wealthy families.
The market for inexpensive education is crowded out by government schools, which serve to indoctrinate, not educate.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
The people we armed became the Northern Alliance, not the Taliban.
Ad-hominem: when you can't refute the source, attack it. No matter that the Boston Globe's source for the story is the government's own surveys and reports.
Norway's debt-to-GDP ratio is 60.20. The United States is 52.90. Outside of Scandinavia, France is at 79.70, and Germany is at 77.20.
That isn't my definition of socialism, that's evidently the previous poster's definition (he said "balanced" socialism).
This compares America's infant mortality rates with that of Europe. America also has more premature births than Sweden, which further skews the statistics.
You've been brainwashed.
If there was one person dying of "poverty", which in America is basically equivalent to a middle-class lifestyle in many Western European countries, the media would parade that person on every national television channel for the next ten years.
Infant mortality statistics cannot be compared between the America and Europe, since in some countries babies born below a certain size or weight are not counted as live births, unlike in America.
"Balanced" socialism has gotten us unsustainable debt, which is bankrupting Europe, and will eventually bankrupt America as well.
The Soviet government routinely dumped fresh high level radioactive waste directly into runoff drains, rivers and harbors. Entire towns and villages were literally removed from the map after chemical or nuclear incidents. In the United States, it's the Federal government that's the largest polluter, contaminating more sites, with greater cleanup costs than sites contaminated by private industry.
Merely three examples, out of countless ones.
Not nearly as many as socialism has produced.
Private property rights in the means of production (capitalism) is what separates one man's plan from another man's plan. Without it, there can only be one plan for all, imposed with terror from the top-down.
No doubt according to heavily massaged statistics using some incomprehensible methodology.
Instead, if we look at where the wealthiest people in America come from, we see that the majority of them (around two-thirds) are self-made, and a list of the wealthiest people shows substantial turnover in a generation. This indicates substantial social mobility. How many of the wealthiest Western Europeans are self-made?
Only if mainstream Republicans advocate a form of guild socialism - central planning, where market competition is suppressed by the State, and sectors of society and the economy, such as agriculture, business, labor, etc. are regimented by the State into organizations subservient to it, and forced to negotiate with each other to establish policies in the interest of the State.
So in other words, Hitler did the same as any other socialist in power.
The NSDAP was funded primarily by large amounts of small donations from individuals, not by big corporations.
No, Im sorry Liberals are better then conservatives. Sure we make our mistakes but at least we want something better for humanity.
So did Pol Pot.
We want peace,
Not really, as coercing large amounts of money from people requires some form of violence, or the threat of violence.
we want health care so needless millions do not have to suffer.
You don't want "health care", you want more government, and you want people to be dependent on government for their existence.
Do you honestly, truly believe that "liberals" want to reduce CO2 output because this will somehow hurt you?
The goal of "environmentalists" is the destruction of Western civilization. Observe that all methods of CO2 emission reduction that do not require the destruction of Western civilization have been rejected, such as nuclear power.
Did you miss the part where the ALA is not part of the government?
They are, however, "suggesting" that government ban electronic cigarettes.
It's funny. Some people seem to have no problem with big corporations controlling almost every aspect of their lives, but take offense at mere suggestions from people trying to look out for them.
Government mandates at the point of a gun or baton aren't exactly "mere suggestions".
Of course, you mean those who could actually read and understand the Constitution, and the Tenth Amendment.
You're believing Michael Moore's hate-filled propaganda. Perhaps there are some actual, concrete examples you would like to point out.
One of the jobs of government is to protect murderers from meeting justice at the hands of their victims. As such, the number likely isn't very high.
Funny how stuff like that still happens despite there being an FDA.
Capitalism and society are perfectly capable of existing without government.
Compare the numbers of people murdered by government with the numbers murdered by corporations.
"Looters will be shot."
Problem solved.
And who better to give a monopoly of force to than the robbers, pillagers and rapists!