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Originally Posted by DanaC
What has that picture to do with socialism?
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Maybe a picture of the decayed homes and apartment buildings in Cuba, would have been more instructive. There, the concrete and stucco buildings are falling down because they have not been painted or sealed against the rain, in so many years.
Now the stucco and concrete have been damaged by the water getting in, and they're falling down - literally, on a massive scale.
When you remove the private sector like Castro did, you have sure and certain poverty. Witness North Korea, China (before 1980), Soviet Union, Cuba, Greece, etc.
There is NOT ONE socialist country that has no private sector, that is not dirt poor. Only the private sector gets the real engines of an economy, revved up - you and me, and all our fellow countrymen.
WE are the engines of an economic recovery, NOT THE FLIPPING GOV'T!
As our national debt continues to grow, and our private sector is shrunk by the socialist policies that keep putting pressure on them, we just start to run out of money - yes, as a nation.
"Socialism only works until the money runs out", as Thatcher once famously remarked.