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Thread #142802   Message #3296351
Posted By: Bobert
25-Jan-12 - 09:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ayn Rand
Subject: RE: BS: Ayn Rand
Well, if one hates Obama then, yeah, you take the "collective ownership" of everything... Mean of production... Air... Gravity, Etc...

Problem is that nothing these days is *pure*... What we have are hybrids of this and that...

One could argue that China is a "communist" country, meaning that everything in controlled by the government but, in reality, China is a hybrid, too... There are "flaming capitalists" operating in not only China but Russia... Sweden, thought to be a "socialist" country is highly capitalistic...

Let's get real here, bill... There are no "pure" economies... Even Cuba has recently allowed people to own businesses... Is Cuba a capitalist country???

Bottom line??? We are all hybrids... The US is very much socialistic when it comes to public ownership of lots of stuff (see list above) and very much a capitalist country and lots of stuff in between...

To argue differently is to turn ones back on the real world...

B~