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Reply #8: I can't decide if the problem is capitalism or the greedy, avaricious
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Wed May-26-10 06:26 PM
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8. I can't decide if the problem is capitalism or the greedy, avaricious |
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people who take advantage of it. In a combination with democracy it created one of the most powerful nations in the world (think of what France or Denmark would have been like without it). We do have problems - half of all kids have to use food stamps to eat sometime during the year. But they do have food stamps - many other places have nothing. We have people losing their homes and moving to shelters and apartments. Other countries distinguish their better places to live by how much cardboard and tarpaper they can scrounge. The "poor" don't even have that.
Maybe it's not the system. Maybe it's the lack of people who won't (or can't?) become intimately involved with governing?
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