At 05:25 PM 5/19/00 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: >to yanks, socialism is an evil, dirty word - roughly equivalent >to satanism. but we understand why you're like that...you've been >brainwashed with anti-socialist bullshit since you were small children.
Hahah, Satanism, that was a good one. :) But I still prefer individualism to socialism. >the rest of the world knows it isn't anywhere near so bad. the rest of >the world knows that democracy and socialism are not opposites, they are >orthogonal - you can have a socialist democracy (like those in northern Whoa, orthoganol. :) >while america pretends otherwise, the rest of the world knows that >freedom is a lot more than just the freedom to choose between working >for minimum wage and starving. Hmm, we have alots of good jobs. If a company is trying to hire somebody for min wage, good luck! Labor is so tight now even hamburger flippers make 6 bucks an hour. >before you bother replying, go do some research on the subject matter. >i'll just ignore anything which reeks of typical american ignorance. Research... I didn't pull this out of thin air you know. I was watching a program about Australia and it was describing some of their "programs" and I generally found it to be disturbing. Before that I kind of thought of Australia as a semi-idyllic place. Unlike here. This country is utterly screwed up and ass-backwards. And people wonder why the Roman Empire fell... +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | -=I T ' S P R I N C I P L E T H A T C O U N T S=- | |=- -=ALAN KEYES FOR PRESIDENT=- -=| | Balanced Budgets Personal Freedoms Morality Lower Tax | |=-- http://www.Keyes2000.com. --=| +———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————+