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former9thward

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10. And they would be correct.

Reply to SammyWinstonJack (Reply #8)

Sun Jan 24, 2016, 06:52 PM

Jan 2016

Public services have been around for at least since the Roman times. And the Romans were not socialists. Public services exist under all sorts of economic systems. It shows a real lack of understanding of socialism -- which is a specific economic system -- to says services are "socialism".

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