Archive for September, 2008
There is a difference, you know
Communism
Socialism
Command Economy
Organized anarchy, collectivism; relies on total societal cooperation
Transitional tool that organizes and stabilizes government to be handed over to public control; very delicate, requires trust and honor of the goal
Total centralization of economy, agriculture, industry, welfare, and employment; Soviet Union style economics glorified by the Red Scare
Since the above terms are so often confused [...]
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How the Candidates Deal With Gas
The Situation
Gas prices have inflated to extreme levels lately – nation at $3.61 and San Francisco average at $4.00 – and voters have a few plans laid before them by presidential candidates Clinton, McCain, and Obama.
The Facts
Clinton
Obama
McCain
Impose windfall profits tax (tax on a profits from a product that suddenly sells like crazy) on oil [...]
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Environmentalism
Our “elected” leader’s good old boys truly endeavor to please our nation’s source of power and affected eminence: the corporations. A more reasonable, cost-efficient strategy for the government is to simply abandon any prospects of preserving the Earth for our posterity.
Why should such trivialities as the environment or the world’s future concern our surely de [...]
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At a press conference held this weekend, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino addressed possible national security threats for this Halloween.
Perino said, “Most threats are groups of three to eight children ages 8-13. For example, last October, Virginian officials detained three adolescents who attempted to extort candy on the threat of a “trick” from several [...]
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