Out-of-touch Rich Man Chronicles: Michael Bloomberg equates a living wage to communism

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16. also, the china-russia border dispute

However, I agree there are other economic factors. And you're right, we did fund radical fundies (many who weren't even from afghanistan) over the moderate afghanis fighters. And, I remember an article about the women in afghanistan under soviet influence before the damn taliban took over. Women who had jobs, women who didn't have to cover their faces, women who were educated. And, I remember many women having to flee afghanistan when the fundies came into power-some being murdered just like in Iran, when they refused to cover their faces.

I think that when the soviet union broke up, it might have been better if they had not relinquished all to predatory capitalism. I read stories of the elderly being thrown out of their homes, having to sell priceless family heirlooms for food; while some unscrupulous greedheads were setting themselves up and doing business with certain global corporations. Kind of selling out their people. After the break up, it would have been nice to see a more balanced approach, like in some of the other european countries, maintaining social programs for the people, while building a regulated healthy capital base.

Of course, I'm someone looking from the outside.