Comments on: News You Can Use! http://freedomfolks.com/?p=5437 fighting illegal immigration...one post at a time Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:15:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Rhonda http://freedomfolks.com/?p=5437#comment-120171 Rhonda Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:35:58 +0000 http://freedomfolks.com/?p=5437#comment-120171 I'm reading a very compelling book right now, called "Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein. Klein is a leftist from Canada, but she makes some excellent points - one of which is how the US economic system is not compatible with something that has been done all over Latin America for centuries. The "shock" here is when the Milton Friedman University of Chicago economic theories were applied (and viociously) to Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina. They obviously failed because people there were used to their wage and price controls and government handouts of land, welfare, and schooling. Here, we are being indoctrinated in more socialism, but tempered with the same kind of ultra-capitalist free unfettered trade and labor doctrines that created the problems in parts of S. America that you are now seeing here. We can't have it both ways, but we certainly can achieve balance. One just hopes that it's not the same kind of "balance" that you see in Klein's example or in Mainland China. I’m reading a very compelling book right now, called “Shock Doctrine” by Naomi Klein. Klein is a leftist from Canada, but she makes some excellent points - one of which is how the US economic system is not compatible with something that has been done all over Latin America for centuries. The “shock” here is when the Milton Friedman University of Chicago economic theories were applied (and viociously) to Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina. They obviously failed because people there were used to their wage and price controls and government handouts of land, welfare, and schooling. Here, we are being indoctrinated in more socialism, but tempered with the same kind of ultra-capitalist free unfettered trade and labor doctrines that created the problems in parts of S. America that you are now seeing here. We can’t have it both ways, but we certainly can achieve balance. One just hopes that it’s not the same kind of “balance” that you see in Klein’s example or in Mainland China.

]]> By: Unixxstar http://freedomfolks.com/?p=5437#comment-120164 Unixxstar Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:59:44 +0000 http://freedomfolks.com/?p=5437#comment-120164 Maybe they have plans to still be a viable party when Hispanics take over the country?! Funny thing is, i believe that when that day would arrive, BOTH parties would be thrown out the window without so much as a sloppy kiss.... Maybe they have plans to still be a viable party when Hispanics take over the country?!

Funny thing is, i believe that when that day would arrive, BOTH parties would be thrown out the window without so much as a sloppy kiss….

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