Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666  | | Quote: Originally posted by David K | It had nothing to do with the work, but getting the approval from Mexico City (here is an example of socialism dictating from thousands of miles away
what a businessman can do).
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The Pemex business is a franchise that is strictly controlled by Mexico City. |
DK: these are some topics for your next baja campfire debate! Happy spring break everyone!
So Pemex retail stations are franchises,... if Subway corporation tells a franchisee in Oceanside CA how to run their business, is Subway a socialist
organization?
If socialism is so bad, how come the ideas are so persistent? And if capitalism is so good, why do so many people in free market economies live in
poverty? Has there ever been a free market capitalist economy without many people living in poverty?
DK: you assign magical properties to capitalist, free market small-government dream world, but you got no proof such a world has ever worked for the
entire population.
And who says that economic prosperity is the most important thing in life for an individual or society?????? Perhaps there are more important things
in life than money, eh?
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I am always HAPPY to help!
Subway is NOT owned by the government (yet).
Socialism is a government that controls business in such a way that the business owner cannot make the normal operating decisions without permission
of the bureaucrats.
The socialist ideas are persistent because there will always be people who are lazy or unmotivated to apply their skills. This is specially true when
the government so easily and quickly gives them money for not producing... in the belief that once on the program it is a guaranteed vote at the next
election.
Brain washing the population that business and corporations are evil is conditioning the future to poverty as well.
Would you change a system that has only a few people in poverty for one where ALL people are equally poor. The few poor in America are richer than
most of the world's population, by-the-way. Have you been to other countries... places like Mexico? Where the average income American can vacation a
couple weeks a year in a place where he is considered 'rich' because is is able to do so compared to many or most in Mexico... and Mexico is 'rich'
when compared to Guatemala, etc.! |
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And here is the gratuitous political comment. It didn't take long! Can't help
yourself, can you?
