OK - first your premise requires multiple time machines, does this have something to do with wormholes? Please explain
SamF, in defense of ILoveTheRockets, he is talking about "Nepoleanic Code" which is apparently something completely different.
The code and socialism go hand in hand. It might not be exactly socialism but it's damn close. Even tho they didn't even have a thing called socialism when the code was introduced doesn't mean it doesn't go hand in hand with socialist views. It actually was one of the things that helped open the doors for socialism and anyone that denies that is just a damn fool.
Poor child. Somebody should drive your ass to Louisiana and beat the stupid out of you - since you'd be operating under the mistaken assumption that you can't act in self-defense, it just might work.
Anybody think if I called for de-socialization of national defense, that it would gain traction with the Tea Baggers?
Nope, but if you called for the socialization of a private industry, not even many Democrats would back you up.
I agree with you that Democrats are good capitalists when they feel it appropriate and aren't when they think it is not. The AM Radio crowd is definitely hypocritical in decrying socialism as the greatest evil in the world when it suits them and looking the other way when they don't. As long at the RNC refuses to embrace privatization of everything, perhaps we should start calling them the Republican-Socialist party?
If you're talking about the health insurance industry, I think most people value getting decent, affordable health care over ensuring that an industry remain "private." It's the fact that it is private, with no public competition, that makes it so easy for that industry to prioritize profits over good or even decent care -- and that's for the people who are lucky enough to have insurance. That's probably why 70% of Americans (not just Democrats) favor a public option; or, as you might like to call it, the socialization of a private industry.
I don't think you have to favor privatization of everything to not be socialist. But I agree that the Republicans were quite hypocritical on this issue throughout the Bush administration.
I wasn't specifically talking about that, I was speaking of the hundreds of other industries (tech, clothing, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, food services, other types of insurance, etc.) that no one of either party has any desire to socialize. Most of our economy is still private and capitalist, and still would be with socialized healthcare.
The Neapolitan Code clearly does support Socialism, and the writings of Socialism inventor Nepoli Dumas: "All aspects of society in flavor harmony for one, one occasional brainfreeze / suspension of individual musket rights for all." Anybody who doesn't know this is just a stupid person, a stupid person who didn't benefit from the same great Texas high school education that I received.
