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  • Chavez is a very respectable person..everyone having a bad opinion about him should try to get some more info on the person...

  • Socialism isn't just government control of the economy it's who is controlling the economy. In a capitalist economy the wealth is owned by the very few rich, in a socialist economy the wealth is owned by the entire country and is much more evenly distributed. In Venezuela Socialism is being pursued with progressive measures like labour armies and all sorts of projects to slash poverty, which has actually worked quite well there. Anyone who calls Chavez a dictator is full of shit, it's democratic

  • Yeah live alone VENEZUELA viva CHAVEZ

  • @CASGARRAFA Primero Mexicano (por como insultas) luego centroamericano (por como los defiendes) despues Argentino (por como los admiras) y ahora Venezolano? pues si eres venezolano eres uno muy pendejo por lo visto.

    Que eres? un amargado? un pedante? un voluble? un frustrado? No mames eres un caso de estudio.

  • Well this is refreshing, finally i hear some sense from an american concerning chavez and his politics. The United States and their assumption of being the greatest country on earth keep messing with chavez and venezuela, Why? leave us alone, stop trying to control the world. Chavez is a PRESIDENT THAT WAS ELECTED THROUGH DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS, TWICE!, by overwhelming mayority. Stop calling him a dictator just to have an excuse to invade us and take our oil.

    Viva Chavez Viva Venezuela!

  • @MaoistRebelNews3 Lol I whine like a trot ? Your whining atm, so what does that make you ? I learned what shit was when I saw your videos and thought to myself of how this is BS. And that knowing MRN has enemy's, i thought to myself about the similarity of the subjects.. Your a fucking trot and you deserve to DIE.

  • @MaoistRebelNews3 Oh, I do. And from what I see from you: its full of shit.

  • @MaoistRebelNews3 Who the fuck says he even is reading that article ? Who the fuck says he is repeating those words ? You and your friends just wrote the damn article and made it mirror his words by using different words to make the same meaning. Most likely WSWS and RevLeft are allies in this BS. Why should I believe anything YOU say ?

  • @MaoistRebelNews3 Probably because he already did those videos, you insane lunatic.

  • @MaoistRebelNews3 Well, its funny. I don't see any other reason why you would bash him, you psychotic fuck.

    I am amazed your still around. I think I'll go ban you now.

  • @MaoistRebelNews3 Its funny. I don't know of what MaoismBinLaosim thinks (nor do I care, as he is no real Maoist), but either way, your psychotic. MRN is a good man, and I can't believe I trusted you. Its amazing no one has banned this account. Yet. Lets hope it happens soon. So fuck off, trot. I saw nothing of anti Leninism on your channel. RevLeft and you can go fuck itself. And lots of people will do ANYTHING for money. And you would do anything to have money. Because they and you ARE SHIT.

  • Wow, this guy is an ass. Hugo Chavez is a great man, and has done much for his people. When the capitalists were in power, the country was THE WORLDS MOST DESTITUTE, POOREST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. And then Hugo Chavez fixed that, by giving them communism, socialism and equality. And now it is a much better place. A FAR better place. Hell, he saved millions of lives, and he is a hero. Oh, he was democratically voted in, AND he never removed the voting poll like Hitler did. Well well...

  • @TheCommunist100 This is a lie!! Shut the fuck up.. You stincky liar!!

  • @Akkatlah wow. How pathetic, and totally unoriginal, you can't even spell.

  • @TheCommunist100 shut the fuck up.. Liar!! Go to suck Chavez's dick!!

  • @Akkatlah So you want to believe a government who has 23,000 people up for the death penalty and says Cuba has 10 million people up for death penalty yet they have absolutely no one up for the DP at all ? I suggest you go isolate yourself from the world. It has too many asshats. If you can't accept the truth that America is fascist, then consider yourself an certified ass.

  • @TheCommunist100 if Cuba is such a wonderful place why don't you go to live there? No one says the united states are perfect but I'm quite sure to live there is much better than to live in North Korea.

  • @Akkatlah Im sorry. I love free health care and autism funding (some of my friends are cursed with the damn thing) to move to a fascist country such as america. And Cuba is a epic country. Btw, why don't YOU go to Cuba and see how it is ? Oh wait, I forgot. Your fascist country banned travel to Cuba because Cuba beat them in a simple battle. Your government is corrupt and decayed. It should be put down and the Communist USA party turn that country into something GOOD and WORTH WHILE. .

  • @TheCommunist100 you're delusional.

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  • chavez=ignorance upon ignorance

  • @TW14gunner

    He is probably 100 times more well-read then the average American and the most of your presidents.

  • Chavez, the red gorilla, just aspires to be a dictator, tyranizing his people and flogging a dead horse, communism died a long time ago. He will be put in his place soon.

  • This moron Cenk..sounds like a 13 year old..oh wait his audience is

    made up of teenagers. Close your eyes..and pretend you are listening

    to Beavis and Butthead..Cenk is a perfect moronic imitation of your average

    high school half wit.

  • @ehunter2

    You must be getting Cenk mixed up with Bush

  • @help4343

    The only thing I get Cenk and his moronic followers mixed up with is Beavis and Butthead

  • Viva Chavez, long life President Chavez!!.

    If you don't bother to read and listen what is going on, better put your head in a hole and stop breathing. What is Hugo Chavez telling everybody is to open the eyes and see what we can do as a collective.

  • Socialism SLAPPED Capitalism!

  • @Reqrezentin ridiculous.

  • it's scary how Bush hornswaggled so many into believing he's a conservative

  • They socialize losses. that benefits the capitalists and damage the workers

  • hugo chavez is da shit he have lil penis bery nice!

  • @VergadoDelFundillo yes...he is shit

  • Meery Christmas to the team, Great video!

  • lol viva chaves viva latin america

  • pedaso de mierda

  • ami no me digas pendejadas tu eres el pedaso de mierda sabes alos pedasos de mierdas como tu me gustaria encontrarlos para destrosarte la cara porque tu eres la mierda que se esconde atras de una computadora .. just go fuck ur mother.

  • pedaso de mierda

  • Bush grand father was arrested 3 times for doing dirty business with the Nazis during War World II why are you hiding this FOX criminal liars... While countries like England and France were making millions of almost slaves in Africa... why are you hiding this Fox criminal liars...

  • That bastard Bush I criminal told Sadam that if he invades Kuwait he will respect the sobereign desicion of Iraq then killed 500 thousand people in the war. But before that former president Reagan was talking about make the USA energy independent then after he got shot by someone; the same asshole vice president Bush took charge an they forgot the issue; today thanks to its son and the asshole criminals of the pentagon the USA economy is broke and with 13 trillion dollars debts...

  • Bush Grand Father was arrested three times for making dirty business with the Nazis during War World II; they were selling special gasoline for the combat airplanes. The Nazis killed 10 million people at least but the weapon business during the war killed 50 millon more. Those false heroes are the ones who want to write history and give lessons of democracy; They do not have enough oil but huge debts for at least 200 years; this is why they want to invade to steal natural resources.

  • Why do they force you to pay taxes but you can simple no vote for how much will be the military expenditures?? Now those bastards of the Pentagon and military industry has broke the Nation and enslave people for at least 100 years with more than 13 trillion dollars debt while destroying their neighbors markets during 50 years of cold war... Like the Roman Empire talking about democracy with the slaves under the table... go back to england lick the Queen illegal bastards criminals in the USA.

  • leftist scum

  • Viva la revolution!! Obama's socilaist revolution!! Republicans die, die, die!!! haha....

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  • fuck you

    The Right wing has fucked up the past 8 years

  • No its not. European style is far more preferable to any sane person.

  • of course, which is why germany, sweden, norway, france, england, and spain are now electing conservatives instead of once popular social democrats and labour parties.

  • senorchipotle: What r u talking about? Norway just elected a very socialist oriented leader.

  • ok... well, maybe not norway, but all the others.

  • @senorchipotle

    Hi, I'm from France and here the ruling conservatives (which btw are a good deal to the left of the Democratic Party on economic issues...) just got trounced in regional elections by the left-wing coalition of socialists, greens and communists...

    In Spain the Partido Socialista Obrero has been reelected into office, in England the Labour Party has been in office for ages.... Europe's not particularly moving conservative-ward

  • @PavedStones... well, europeans gave up individual freedom for collective ''equality''(which there is no such thing) long ago. thomas paine had it right when he remarked the french were fighting for the wrong thing. noble indeed, was the revolution, but instead of freedom, they took their liberty from the king and gave it to the government. what good is owning a store when told how to operate it? or planting a vineyard with the vines and methods already predetermined? that's not liberty.

  • @PavedStones and now one year later, what has happened? Labour voted out of England, Le Pen getting more support in France, other countries in Scandanavia are moving towards the right, the EU is as unpopular as ever with many angry at the bailouts for Greece, the "siesta" counties of the mediterranean are slowly realizing the many problems with their way of life...although I will admit much of the right's recent gains in Europeare mainly due to an anti-immigrant stance rather than economics

  • @pem82sox Yeah, I wrote this a year ago and now it's obvious there's a massive shift to the right. However you should be aware that the hard right parties in Europe have a tendency to moderate their anti-immigration stance and to campaign more and more on economic issues, calling for policies that are usually associated with the left. In France the Front National is attracting a lot of former Socialist and Communist voters who are disappointed with their parties moderation ("the caviar left")

  • But then again the left has taken a centrist turn since the 80's/90's, the beginning of the (hugely unpopular, with reason) onslaught of economic liberalisation that has given such mediocre to disastrous results in the west and in much of the rest of world

  • Not sure the jobless and homeless in America would agree with you. Because American capitalism has failed...again.

  • Chavez do not have more than 13 trillion dollars internal debt nor oil problems. So whats your business in South America little warmongers criminals???

  • Its more like the banks privatizing government

  • very very true, by the way the fed reserve (check it out on Wikipedia) has been private since the early 20th century. Watch zeitgeist if you want more on it.

  • People are so duped!

    Take central planning of money, central banking, superiorize obedience to the government over individual property rights, punish business success, government enforced monopolies and agencies, and pretty much everything else that constitutes Mussulini's government model and......wait for it.........CALL IT FREE-MARKET CAPITALISM!

    It gets better. Then the US economy fails under puppet master, technocrats running it and blame the failure on too much economic freedom.

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  • @cheddyrod

    ur lack of critical thinking and reasoning is amazing. Can't you see that English isn't his native languge and he, unlike you, speaks more languages than you? and you have the guts to criticize his english where you know nothing about his language. His english is better than your Danish idiot.

    cause of ppl like u is that people in the world depict US ppl as stupid,cause u can not think that he speaks more languages than u,u think the world speaks english right? get out more idiot.

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  • uhm.... i don't know about the french and chinese, but your german sounds like it comes out of an online translation program. I think you wanted to say 'i know more languages than you do', but what you've got is 'I know more languages than you make'. "to do" in german is "etwas machen", and a sentence like "i do pushups" would be "ich mache liegestuetzen", so thats why you ended up with that translation,but german 'machen' is generally used more like english 'make'.

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  • No, I learned my German from my Austrian mother and all the other Austrians that where around me when i grew up. German is my first language.

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  • I agree docdoom, but I would add this, don't you find it weird that those big bank are whilling with no fight to surrender to the government? Don't you guys remember how the federal reserved got established? I think you guys can find out the result by yourself of the law that got the federal reserve up and running...

    Kinda weird how they nationalized it without any fight, I ask yourself; Did the bank got nationalized or did the state got bought by the bank? History repeat itself here! no?

  • hey fatty mcturk pants when you laugh like that , it makes me wanna kick your fuckin teeth in.

  • "The man who accepts truth is a real man."

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  • Don't bother checking the ones in Switzerland, the US has a warrant!

  • there is no such thing as socalism and capitalism, honestly. they are both sides of the same exact coin. anyone who thinks one way is THE way is wrong, it takes BOTH, a well-balanced blend of concepts, to make a system the most stable. it's not perfect, nothing is perfect. but it's best when things are well-balanced and objective.

  • In all due respect, Republicans and Democrats are two different sides to the same coins, but Socialism and Capitalism are worlds apart.

  • The Bushes DESERVE every bit of ridicule. The Free Market, as the corporate welfare whores like Limbaugh and Hannity mean it, IS socialism for the rich. Keep the profits private, and when everything collapses, go around saying things like, "the banks are too big to fail." Hugo Chavez stood up to the IMF and World Bank AND the oil companies and spread this new revenue around to the Venezuelan people. So Pat Robertson wants Chavez assassinated? Good Christian values Let's see your tax return Pat

  • if you want some stats on venezuela you can go to

    venezuelanalysis(.com). is there any progress in the situation between equador/venezuela and colombia?

  • Chavez is so great. :D

  • socialism!!!!!

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  • hugo chavez definatli is the leder that represent millons of latinos agains 500 years of opresion.

    america latina needs your suport this is a call of oll peploes with conciousnes and respect of human beengs. we need to be involve and suport the peoples of ecuador venezuela cuba bolivia and soon peru.we can do it! this is the oportuniti to taker the power and save ouere planet of comsumism racism selfishnes

    and oure own distroccion.

    viva la gente buena del mundo!!!

    long live chaves!

  • Soy norteamericano de Nueva York (pero con ojos abiertos). En mi espanol muy basico, quiero expresar mi opinion de Hugo Chavez: el es un verdadero heroe de su pais. Es el Simon Bolivar del siglo XXI.

    Vivo Chavez y la Revolucion Bolivariana!

  • Newyorkino?

    Eres un pendejo.

    Chavez es el heroe de los pendejos.

    Viva Bush y el capitalismo.

  • Gracias por tu reacción. :-)

  • La honestidad es mi caracteristica.

    No es mi problema si te molestas.

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  • So funny you say this supporting the BIGGEST ASSHOLE IN THE WHOLE WORLD, not just screwed up countries who never made any harm to the U.S., but ulso SCREWED UP HIS OWN COUNTRY... IF YOU HAVA A BRAIN, YOU SHOULD RUNNING BEHIND HIM THROWING ANY SHOES YOU HAVE AT HOME... Well, IS A FORTUNE FOR US NOT LIVE IN THE U.S., IS YOUR PROBLEM DUDE! XD

  • @inbrooklyn2008 Nice, an American who holds a positive view of Chavez. Thought I'd never see one.

    If you're really American, congrats, your Spanish is very good. Also, congratulations for having your "ojos abiertos" :)

  • @inbrooklyn2008 Algo que no muchos son capaces de ver. Incluyendo a muchos Venezolanos. Pero la historia nos demostrará en lo correcto. Cuando estos gringos acaben con el mundo por medio del Calentamiento Global o cuando el medio oriente estalle en un conflicto bélico de proporciones bíblicas se darán cuenta que su defensa hacia los empresarios y poderosos fué la gran condena de este planeta

  • @inbrooklyn2008 Que viva nojoda! Venceremos!!

  • @inbrooklyn2008 You can't be fucking serious. Chavez can't even get the lights to work on a regular basis. Also look closely at Venezuela which is now that murder capital of the world.

  • @inbrooklyn2008 didn't the guy infringe on some human rights? not socializing this and that.... who cares about that? I mean killing people or arresting them for political reasons or something

  • @inbrooklyn2008 Chavez I mean

  • Armenia is watching Turkey very closey, we are angry and ready for WAR!

  • is there not a difference between loan and completely buying up things? I think the term "bailout" is the problem!!! because at the end of it all they will return their money with interest.

  • Wouldn't that be nice of them?

    How about asking the banks to forget the mortgage debts? That might work...

  • I us to said Hi, Hugo Chavez IS CRAZY and period.

  • viva hugo chavez

    long live socialism

  • The are socializing the losses but not the benefits. They are robing the American taxes payers, that's sick. So be a capitalist do big frauds and if you loose bill the people and last of all, your are free (no jail, is the best part)!

  • Lol, Chavez really does have his moments.

  • I wonder when Texas people finally undestand what kinda communist they have strongly supported.

  • The banks have not been nationalized, that would be awesome. They've been "bailed out". They are still privately owned, we just get to pay for their fuck ups and not get any of the benefits of a nationalized bank.

  • great coverage, yep capitalism will collapse on itself there is no need to fight it. The contradictions are clearly visible now but since people love to not inform themselves they would have seen all these problems comming if they only read some MARX not even the part about socialism the part were he explains what Capitalism is and how it works. This is just the beginning of the downfall of capitalism and just brace for more to come the great drepession was nothing to whats to come.

  • the point of this video is that us the US should be more CONSERVATIVE and stay the fuck out of everyone business around the world. We talk alot of shit about hugo chavez and fidel and those assholes but look what we are. Number 1 yeah right thats a fucking joke.You better wake up america and stop being so naive, you just got fucked over and debilitated by a phony patriotic republican party that has left you broke , weak and to attacks. Thats what you get when you can´t think for yourself

  • CHAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS

  • Yeah, and Hugo can't keep the lights on in his own country. Three nationwide blackouts. The difference between the bail out and Hugo's efforts in Veneseula is that the bail out buys them, Hugo sent troops in and "nationalized" them. You really are crappy at research. Pelosi told Congress that they would stay there until a bailout was approved, Democrats control Congress. Maybe if you knew our system of government you would know that.

  • Stop making excuses

  • There is a big difference to the bailout and nationalizing. The bail out was not nationalizing i dont know why people are calling it that. It was a loan to keep the same people who brought it down in control of those companies so they can fix the problem then pay back to the government, Nationalizing is were the government takes complete control of a companie and its no longer private it becomes a public accet to the people of that countrie.

  • Ha, Ha, Ha,

    Makes me laugh.

    I think everyone realises, though, that without socialising those failed capitalist assests then the sebsequent pedulum swing would have sent the world into a depression. It's not really that capitalism failed, rather, it wasn't allowed to restructure itself naturally - mostly, I believe, because the world has gotten too used to ipods and cellphone and we don't want to give those up for the bread queues.

  • Chavez makes me laugh

  • "In the long run, the American people can have confidence that our economy will bounce back."

    George W. Bush, October 18, 2008

    There, doesn;t everyone fell better now. Nothing to worry about. Keep moving. Arbeit macht frei.

  • Good economics is about finding the balance between regulation and a hands-off policy to promote healthy competition. Companies need to be able to compete because it usually demands providing a better product at a lower price, and therefor increases efficiency. Regulation's needed, however, to keep the competition fair. Without it you get monopolies, corporations powerful enough to force government action, and not competing by self-improvement, but by harming the consumer and their competitors.

  • All succesful Capitlaists buy the government when it is in their power and interest to do so.

    Period. Why wouldn't they?

    Corporate Fascism is Capitalism.

  • You may be correct in what you say but that is not "economics".

  • "economic policy" may have been a better wording, but the 500 character limit restricts what I can say and how I can do so while still making my point. Part of what I was meaning by the note on regulation was to prevent them from being able to so easily buy government as you put it, but yes, I agree with what you say as well. Just remember this isn't a full essay ;)

  • Yes, that's on target--exactly.

  • Thank you. Both sides of the argument need to hear this, and stop with the name calling BS. Capitalists are not facist and socialist are not commuinst. Facism is when authortarianism is combined with captialism, and communism is when authortarianism is combined with socialism. It took this economic crisis to show be that, Marx nor Smith had it 100% right. Like with everything else in life, you must find the balance within the two extremes.

  • Thank you for your true words. You are not finding much truth here on youtube. Everyone has an agenda and most people are not learned enough to know the difference fact and fiction and that puts America at risk.

  • Fascism is economically anticapitalist; it wants a regulated system to prevent private monopoly and it merges the state and large corporations. It's more of a "third position" ideology. And communism is an as-of-yet unacheived utopian stateless classless society with no state and no money; from each according to his ability, to each according to his need. What many naively call "communism" is actually state socialism; the "dictatorship of the proletariat" phase of Marxist-Leninist progression.

  • I couldn't have said it better myself. There is a good website called politicalcompass(dot)org it shows a good placement of people in history and has a great placement test. You probably know about it though.

  • "Comrade Bush" A goose vs. the gander moral here. LOL!

  • I'm with Evo Morales on this one. Calling this socialism is an insult to socialists. Socialism is about spreading the wealth, this is about keeping the wealthy - um ... - wealthy

  • "The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that nation states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated."

    Evo Morales

    US Capitalism is also the enemy of the American people.

  • Socialism for the rich is still socialism, yes it is the most retarded form of socialism I've ever seen, but it is still socialism.

  • I'm not against socialism. I'm not even against communism. I certainly am not against capitalism. I AM against totalitarianism, authoritarianism, and despotism.

    Do you really think the same people who brought you warrantless wiretapping, torture, military kangaroo courts, and suspend habeus corpus will responsibly nationalize the companies of their big business buddies 'in our best interests'? Even staunch anti-communist Adolf Hitler nationalized many industries during the war.

  • Privatizing the gains, and socializing the losses. Perfect articulation. Fuck capitalist pigs.

  • "Communism for the rich" Classic. Its always been that way though.

  • Who are these fat b@stards?

  • their patriots.......shitboy

  • the moment dow dropped by 500 points i thought, "viva la revolution".

    really, does anybody not see were this is going? bush is not literally a communist!

  • Im a Libertarian and its my view that third world countrys need socialism. But we dont have capitalism here in the US. We have crony capitalism and now corporate socialism.

    Bad monetary policy by the fed caused the meltdown, not capitalism. Printing money out of thin air devalues the dollar and that cause prices of everything to go up. Lowering interest rates so people use credit to buy things they cant afford and running up massive defecits and debt is what caused the bubble to burst.

  • Well furrybarry why don't we all go in the back yard, throw up the tent, dig a hole and clean our ass with grass like they do in less polluting countries?

  • A powerful alternative message that might make a difference? if it says what's in your heart and might discourage voters do help it become a hit (send it to your mailing lists) so it reaches the concervative mind before voting day!

    by Musicians4Obama

  • Why is this fat pig on youtube all the time?

    Dumb fuck cant think worth a shit.

  • Because people at large are idiots.

  • Comrade Bush seizes the means of the production ...

    I always knew that the top 1% is very class-conscious "socialists" (it's like marxism, only for the super-rich)

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  • Great analysis FINALLY an American who understands Chavez.

  • Obama will continue the effort to impose authoritarian and corporate-state capitalist policy imperatives on impoverished nations - will only worsen the situation of the global poor.

    In the openly imperial foreign policy chapter of his book The Audacity of Hope, Obama criticized "left-leaning populists" like "Venezuela's Hugo Chavez" for thinking that developing nations "should resist America's efforts to expand its hegemony" and for daring - imagine! - to "follow their own path to development."

  • And again we have another who clearly thinks Obama is a socialist and then will impose capitalistic policies. Wouldn't a socialist impose socialist policies? Doesn't a socialist have any policies or do they use capitalism by twisting it to fit their social agenda? Then it's no longer free market capitalism is it? But then you still blame capitalism for the greed in this world when it's really the socialists and facists policies.

  • The money, media and peoples privacy are controlled by our governments. When these things are in the hands of the few it is called despotism. We live in dictatorships only most of us think we are free. Some of us are even willing to die for that phoney freedom, it's sad. When an enemy comes to Canada I will certainly grab a rifle and fight them, however I aint dying to make some rich mofo richer. Capitalists DO profit from war don't be Ridiculous mickeysears are you a propaganda officer? lol

  • Sorry Lil' Sister, the only fight you have is with the backing of the United States of America. We are the Muscle behind your Rhetoric, your Health Care has already messed with my day to day. I had to get insurance, in case something happens on my Alaskan cruise. My Insurance is paid up, they are worried about Canadian Bureaucracy. Go Figure

  • Your just not making any sense. You say we live in a dictatorship and then proceed to say that capitalists DO profit from war. Capitalists want free market capitalism. Once these people turn to use government police powers to squelch free market capitalism, they are no longer, by definition, caitalists. The ones that profit from war are the greedy socialist fascist dictators that chose to move away from free market economics.

  • Well said.

  • A capitalist is a person that buys labour by capital to increase its profit, you you make money by own capital to invest in companys etc. You mean a marketliberal right? A marketliberal or a classical liberal is a person that by ideology wants a market without regulations so that the market can be free, a so-called Hayekinspired economy. Sorry for my bad english;)

  • really funny but true

  • The US is one dog that has had it's day.

  • he is proud to be a merkin

  • There is nothing cute or funny about were we are. No company should be allowed to grow so large, that we cannot allow it to fail. I hope the lessons we have learned will not be forgotten. BTW, I wonder who Hugo is supporting for pres. Obama wants Wealth Redistribution, a key principal of Socialism. One thing is certain, Americans don't want to take the Economic Principals of China, Russia, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, or Belarus. The best thing we can do is to leave taxes where they are.

  • The US is a laughing stock to the rest of the developed world due to it's lack of public healthcare. Americans do want this aspect of socialism.

    The redistribution of wealth you talk about is communism, whereas caring for those who cannot help themselves in society is simple humanity. The only people who are unhappy with socialism in South America are the ones who made a fortune from the virtual slave labour of the poor.

  • The rest of the world is Damned, if we can't function properly. I talk about Socialism, that is an Economic System, Communism is A Political System. Humanity, who contributes the most Humanitarian aide to the rest of the the world, we do. How many of these countries participate in democracy and capitalism? You see where I'm going, try to defend Socialism, go ahead, you are not Acknowledging Reality. LAUGHING STOCK OF THE REST OF THE WORLD, who the hell are you kidding? Please, try to learn

  • Haha, right. The world doesn't need the US other than some place to dump cheap consumer junk and dodgy credit. The Euro is the currency the world trades with, and almost every 1st world country gives more aid per capita than the US

    The US ranks something like 16th in total effective humanitarian aid (ie not spending billions propping up dictatorships or military aid to Israel).

  • Alright Fool, we give the most, on every level, we sacrifice the most, on every level, If we did not exist, Lord knows what this world would be like. There have been great Civilizations throughout the years, Advanced technologies, problem is that they all disappeared, their knowledge too. The only way to ADVANCE, IS TO NEVER FAIL. This is our burden, which we have suffered for the less fortunate. We sacrifice, the others try to Separate and Concur. Who are you with????

  • Being the worlds fattest, highest polluting nation isn't sacrificing or suffering, nor does it constitute being a "great civilisation".

    p.s. separate and concur have quite opposite meanings.

  • furrybarry

    Good One, SISSY, I don't know where you are from, don't much care. Please, smart one, explain to me the world you exist in, then try to explain how you would be there without the USA. This should take some time, remember, your time is safe, God Bless America

  • Why would god bless the greediest nation on earth? I travel all over the world. Australia, India, currently California. Neither of the first two have been helped by the US, and California would be far better off if it were a separate country. Your attitude is why the French laugh when Americans accuse them of arrogance.

  • See,Now you are being a complete moron. Once again, you would not travel, period. California should succeed? Are you stupid?California encompasses the American Democracy, they are about down the middle(dems51/49 Repub) That is DEMOCRACY, and that is why you don't understand. Once again, Please explain to me, how all of the countries you have visited, would exist without the USA. Please, take your time, read the History, regardless of Canadian content. Please, Stupid person, understand History

  • Of course, how could I forget that American Democracy invented all forms of travel. If you reply, please do so without using gibberish.

    p.s. California is about 53/43 in favour of Democrats and subsidises every other state in the union with disproportionate taxation.

  • Your absolutely right about 54/43 dems/repubs. Don't know what I was smoking, I guess I like to count independents as hesitant republicans. Ether way, I believe the world is a far better place with America, than it would be without, History should back me up. Speaking of California, I never like how their 55 electoral votes go one way or the other. They need to figure out a way to split them up. Easier said then done, maybe if they went my way, I wouldn't complain

  • furrybarry,

    Sorry, I missed that last part. You think California subsidises every other state. The best way to answer that is by FEDERAL TAX REVENUE, BY STATE, PER CAPITA. This is for 2007, California pays $8,590.18 per capita. The average each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico pays is $8,528.22. You Sir, and your state, are just slightly above average. Hope that helped

  • How about being the #1 aid giver IN THE WORLD?

  • "The best thing we can do is to leave taxes where they are."

    The best thing we can do is let the Bush tax cuts expire, which they were clearly for only one purpose, and lower the tax rate of the middle tier. Then they need across the board spending cuts in the same percent for each program until the budget is balanced.