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93Is This The America You Grew Up In?
NOT ME! First of all, I was born in 1949. When scrolling on a site to click on the year I was born, it...
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74Free Health Care, or is it really BMW's for Bums?
Can you afford to pay for someone elses luxury car? Did you know you could lease a new BMW for around $600 a month? (Even a BMW convertible) That's as much as many peoples health care costs, per month. But...
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70End of Capitalism and Rise of Socialism: Can Marxism Explain the Economy and Society in the United States Today?
Carl Marx believed that there are two major outcomes of prolonged capitalism. The first outcome is the gradual formation of a smaller and wealthier social class (the capitalists). Because the wealth of...
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83Supercapitalism--thoughts by Robert Reich and Tony Judt
The current issue of The NY Review of Books features a thought-provoking review of Robert Reich's new book "Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy and Everyday Life." Judt convincingly...
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78What Is The Future Of Globalization?
The other day I was commenting on a hub, and I realized a few things that I have not heard any talk about or if people even realized, with regards of globalization and current state of the economy. It been...
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78Robin Hood Socialism
Steal from the rich to give to the poor, is the creed of Robin Hood. It's a feel good tale of the heroic Robin Hood against the evil rich king, and by extension the rich altogether. It's the commoner vs. the...
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68Ayn Rand Was Right!
Reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, which was published in 1957, is like reading tomorrow's newspaper. Her warnings about what big government leads to are even more timely now than when this work was first published. Her warnings were born out her own experience with collectivism and statism in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution.
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73Liberty and Justice: Why, How and for Whom?
The following essay was not written by me. I am merely giving it a new place to appear and a new readership. This is an essay that my father wrote and published in 1989. It helps explain why some people...
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72The Failure of Capitalism: Government's Great Lie
Sadly, the historic rip-off of the American public that has just taken place has met with little resistance from the victims. However, lest any inconvenient contrarians or clear thinkers rise up from the...
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59Why Socialism Fails
Before there was socialism or communism there was capitalism. Man has from caveman days been a trader. What was his was his and the only people he shared with were family. As time passed he began to trade...
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