well, the problem like here is, the foreign workers will work for less,,
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From: "iloveubuntulinux" <
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Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 12:19 PM
Subject: [Politics_CurrentEvents_Group] Re: Socialism vs. Capitalism: both
have good and bad points
Europe's socialism has some good points except that it permitted foreign
workers and too much foreign immigration
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> Capitalism is not self sustaining. If there is no middle class to purchase
> goods and services than Capitalism will eventually fail, thus proving that
> no one economic model is the answer. Now where it co exists with a social
> safety net, its thriving. Sweden and Finland are perfect examples of this
> sucessful model
>
>
> Â You can lead people to knowledge but you can't make them think
>
> --- On Tue, 11/30/10, Dave Ketchum <davek@...> wrote:
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> From: Dave Ketchum <davek@...>
> Subject: [Politics_CurrentEvents_Group] Socialism vs. Capitalism: Which is
> the Moral System
> To: PEACENET@...,
Politics_CurrentEvents_Group@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 9:47 PM
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>
> Â
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> Reading too much about the evils of capitalism, I went looking for a
> defense, and found one I liked: Â
> "
http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/onprin/v1n3/thompson.html" -Â On
> Principle, v1n3, October 1993, by: C. Bradley Thompson.  Based on the
> words I like there:
>
>
>
> "The intellectualsâ?T mantra runs something like this: In theory socialism
> is the morally superior social system despite its dismal record of failure
> in the real world. Capitalism, by contrast, is a morally bankrupt system
> despite the extraordinary prosperity it has created. In other words,
> capitalism at best, can only be defended on pragmatic grounds. We tolerate
> it because it works."
>
>
> "Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to
> deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading
> and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent."
> "Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that
> determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal
> judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the
> free-market system."
> I think of restaurants as, usually, capitalistic efforts - rewarding those
> who produce well. Â On the other hand, some of what involves lots of money
> is not truly capitalism because of the ways decisions are made and
> rewarded.
> Seems like we live in a mixed economy of capitalism and socialism. Â Makes
> sense, but we could sometimes do better as to how we mix them together. Â
> Part of what I read here seems biased too much against socialism.
>
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