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Hey Veteran. I'm a believer in Christ and a Socialist. What are you going to do about it?

I don't know where you came from, or who you are, but thank you for the much needed clarification. I'm just not articulate enough, I guess. :( I'll leave a quote by Dom Hélder Camara, a Brazillian bishop who was the voice of the poor. "For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists...

All they're doing is literally buying time so that their markets can continue working and that they could think of a way out of this mess. Do any of you know of Tariq Ali?

Oh wow... EU Crafts $962 Billion Show of Force to Halt Crisis May 10 (Bloomberg) -- European policy makers unveiled an unprecedented loan package worth nearly $1 trillion and a program of securities purchases as they spearheaded a drive to stop a sovereign-debt crisis that threatened to...

I asked a friend about Orthodoxy, specifically the difference between it and Catholicism and this is what I got.

There is a really interesting Socialist economist that talks about this. What's nice about him being socialist is that he doesn't try to hide or sugar coat the story and openly denounces those at wall street that have caused the financial meltdown of 2008. He simply offers a different opinion...

What China has that we don't have is the ability to run on a command economy. China will recover much quicker than we ever will.

Brother Mike, all of the gold mined in human history (roughly 161,000 tonnes) sums up to about $5.2 trillion USD. (based on 2009 data) US gold reserves equal to about $11 billion. Here's an interesting article on gold: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/01/gold/larmer-text/3

I cordially disagree.

A country typically gets its money from three sources. 1. Taxing people 2. Printing more money 3. Borrowing money None of the politicians in Washington would dare to tax people more otherwise their political careers would be very short. That's what the Governator of California is doing and...

If Greece has to write-down its debt and pay its European lenders a fraction of their promised returns, the situation could get ugly. Desmond Lachman explains (reminder of the interconnectivity of European debt after the excerpt) The even greater risk to the European banking system from a...

Listen. I don't want to hold on to the past. The Soviet Union is long and over with. I'm simply unhappy with what I see happening on Wall Street. Also, you have a false notion of a commune. In a commune, you and I would both have vote on what to do with our workplace. It would be called a...

Speaking on behalf of myself and my family. I was born in the Soviet Union before the collapse and remember very little what so ever. However, my parents, friends, and relatives all were born and raised in the Soviet Union. They did not work as slaves as you might think. Good, honest, hard...

The United States is readily capitalist and is no where near to becoming socialist. Simply because the dems are trying to pass some social programs doesn't mean that we're signing away our freedom. Finland, has some of the most social programs and is perhaps the best capitalist country to live...

First of all, Tinnitus is not something to joke about. You don't understand what I'm going through right now without actually having experienced tinnitus. It's been easily the worst week of my life and I'm currently suffering from fatigue and minor depression. Second of all, Cuba is doing poorly...

That's a horrible joke.

One of the major issues with Cuba right now is not necessarily the fault of Fidel, but a result of the fall of the Soviet Union. Cuba lost something like 75% of their trade during the 1990s, and the US embargo continued. Don't you think it's evil that the US Foreign policy blocks prosperity to...

No, it works in Cuba, and it worked in the GDR and USSR till the mid-80's. The USSR wasn't socialist when it collapsed, it was deliberately destroyed by Gorbachev's economic reforms. The people of Cuba are overwhelmingly supportive of their revolution. When given a chance to state their...

An economic ideology back up by science and mathematics isn't simply a theory. It's very possible and a matter of time until a socialist country becomes communist. By the way, marxism isn't dead, there's a large progressive move towards communism and it's becoming readily popular. If you follow...