For those that think capatalism is great! How's the housing market, oil prices, health care and food prices?
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Its going great! How are things on the communal beet farm?
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You mean as opposed to communism, which worked out really well, didn't it?
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The cost of housing, oil, health care, and food have all increased but I'm able to buy all of them. I prefer paying for what I use than having the government dictate what I can and cannot purchase or having to pay for someone elses mistakes.
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Better then it was in the Soviet Union.
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I just bought a new house. I have 3 major grocery stores and 2 small produce shops to choose from within 5 miles. I am pretty healthy, but my routine health care check ups are fine. Oil prices have been dropping for the last week.
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The housing market is great!!! My taxes are going down because my housing value is going down. As for oil prices, I work from home so I don't care. I get health care from my job and I eat from my fruit trees and garden and can what I don't eat. Capitalism is great.
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I believe that this entire slump in housing market, credit crisis, and oil prices is man made--maybe not with the intention of disabling our economy, but certainsly with the intention of gaining personally----and so I say capitalism sucks....
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For me all is fine. Good job, own my home, Have Health care. Food and gas are high, but I haven't overextended myself, so I can absorb the increase. Anyone who can remember the 80's realizes that this is not as bad as the Carter times, but it's cyclical and the economy will bounce back , if we're not taxed to death by the next President.
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Think it is great myself. Housing market decline is based on bad choices by really stupid decisions made by buyers. Fraud and Deception on the part of Sub Prime lenders. All Dems by the way on the Sub Prime side of he coin. Oil is directed and dictated by supply and demand, has nothing to do with capitalism. Health care. where in the constitution of this country does it say we have to take care of your ass. It doesn't . Food prices are up because of Oil prices statement of fact not saying its good. But we need to control the movement of goods and services, and do a better job on the fuel prices. Drilling here at home does that.
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Those prices have only increased because of regulation and Government intervention. They would go down if we could actually have Capitalism.
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I don't take into account anything that the Government regulates or controls with a heavy hand. There is a lot less free market capitalism in the energy sector that you would like to believe. The same goes for the heavily subsidized food production and housing market. My health care is pretty good, though. Thank you for asking. But the real question is, what makes you think the Government as the right, the authority or the mandate to run any of the above? And name one major accomplishment of the Government over the last 40 years that would show us the Government could run any of the above better and more efficiently than the private sector. Just one single major ACCOMPLISHMENT. Just one? Didn't think so. More proof Socialism sucks.
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it's all going great in MY world. i really mean it. i have tried to plan on things costing more. any moron could have seen this coming a decade away.
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Yes I agree, we should adopt cubu's plan at once. Then we can all stand in line to worship our new leader.
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No system is perfect and, sadly, capitalism fails on quite a few fronts. However, in my opinion, liberal democracies underpinned by capitalism are, at the moment, the best option for the human race. What are the alternatives anyway; the few citadels of communism dotted around the world? Or perhaps the demented theocracies of a few Middle East countries? Or should we re-consider pre-industrial, agrarian societies or even feudalism perhaps. Who knows, there may be something in them! Money, cars and stuff do not make you happy as an individual. Neither do ideologies ( such as communism) or religion.
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It's working, the banks are failing as they should for making all those bad loans to people who should never have gotten them that's the bad side of capitalism. Now for true capitalism to work and here's the bad news the banks can NOT and should NOT be bailed out. Home prices should fall and far as health care cost to be honest we're getting gouged for shoddy service Vioxx comes to mind. Imported food and oil prices are the results of running up the $10 TRILLION deficit and ignoring all the reports about China and India's need for oil that have been published over the last 8 years. Again capitalism is working. Toyota Prius' are flying off the lot and SUV's are piling up. GM shut down several truck plants and we've all seen Ford's numbers. In that case capitalism should have worked better provided we actually READ economic reports, curbed the spending keeping the dollar stable, deficit low and started building smaller and hybrid cars sooner. I noticed Toyota and Honda were ready. GM and Ford obviously were not and again they should close their doors. No bailouts either. They were stupid and should pay for it. Yeah the economy will be jacked for a few years(I figure 10+ or until we learn - highly unlikely). In the meantime next time some smug bastard earning $10 - $15 per hour will really be able to afford his home. Unlike some of these other responses I've seen. As an accountant I'll bet dollars to donuts they're not as well off as they claim to be or are a big fish in a very small pond. Like small town Montana.
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Dear Communist, For those of you who think communism is great! How's the Soviet Union....oh wait, they collapsed on their PATHETIC self didn't they? There is no such thing as perfect, capitalism isn't perfect but it's the best out there. And I guess common sense isn't really so common anymore is it? Loving my Freedom and Capitalism, Matt
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