Holy shit! Dude!which Marx are u talkin about? Groucho? Harpo? If its Carl, he came up with the philosphy of COMMUNISM which is SOCIALISM. Which is the Opposite of CAPITALISM
He supplies oil to ...( 3 months ago by smokedm420)
He supplies oil to our country(not for long though-he's in bed with China now), not subsidizing. I'll enlighten you again. A" subsidy (also known as a subvention) is a form of financial assistance paid to a business or economic sector. A subsidy can be used to support businesses that might otherwise fail, or to encourage activities that would otherwise not take place."
I welcome ...( 3 months ago by smokedm420)
I welcome Venezuelans and anyone else, as long as its legally. As far as american business and exports... Dude, every economist will tell u the MAIN reason business leave the country, which reduces our manufacturing, is TAXES! we have the 2nd highest rates for business in the world. "FACISM- A social and political ideology with the primary guiding principle that the state or nation is the highest priority, rather than personal or individual freedoms"
roughly 3.7 Billion ...( 3 months ago by smokedm420)
roughly 3.7 Billion barrells a year. WAAAYYY too much! "The USA is fucked"??? something I agree with you. not cuz of Bush only. It was Bush, Clinton, Carter, EVERY Congress we've had in the last century. Our political system has been corrupted by lobbists.(there are 40 thousand lobbists in DC) Our politicians hve broken our system. Capitalism kept them from breaking the country.
Bush and Cheney had ...( 3 months ago by mopsius)
Bush and Cheney had help, but in 8 years they led the US into complete disaster.
You are wrong--Marx ...( 3 months ago by mopsius)
You are wrong--Marx invented Capitalism and defined it as the stage prior to Communism.
Do some reading.
anhyway, "Capitalsim" is no free enterprise.
US "capitalism" is now fully formed corporate socialism.
The oil companies are not free enterprise.
The US constitution does not define an economic system. It provides protection for private property, which both Democrats and Republicans have destroyed.
There as no such ...( 3 months ago by mopsius)
There as no such thing as illegal immigration until the earlhy part of the Twentieth Century.
Most of the people in the US descend from illegal immigrants, including the Pilgrims.
Nationalizing oil ...( 3 months ago by mopsius)
Nationalizing oil and selling the domestic product at cost, without taxes or profit, disattaches oil from the collapsing currency.
Oil will still have to be imported at the world market price but without tax and profit the cost of domestic oil will be about $30 per barrel, and will help being the whole price down.
Wind Fall profits taxes just go the government and don;t help the consumers.
The US oil ...( 3 months ago by mopsius)
The US oil companies are making huge profits--concealing them under expenses and other padding. They claim ten percent for tax purposes.
Also most of them are multinational, only US subsidiaries.
Venezuela is ...( 3 months ago by mopsius)
Venezuela is subsidizing fuel oil, in your meaning of subsidize. Other oil is being sold at below market price.
Chavez is doing this for several reasons.
Most oil companies ...( 3 months ago by mopsius)
Most oil companies around the world are nationalized or partially nationalized.
The US is fucked one way or the other.
Without nationalizing oil and the Fed the US is superfucked over the short term.
Things are so far ...( 3 months ago by mopsius)
Things are so far gone only some form of mixed economy is worth talking about, whether you call it socilaism or interventionist captialism.
I agree that most of the politicians are morons.
Kucinich is the exception but you have to read his program carefully.
The Marxists are ...( 3 months ago by mopsius)
The Marxists are right about capitalism--it runs on war.
But capitalism is not the only free enterpise system possible.
Capitalists always buy the state, any state.
The US is so fucked ...( 3 months ago by mopsius)
The US is so fucked it might be better just to let it collapse.
If not you are getting nowhere without nationalizing oil.
Attacking Iran is ...( 3 months ago by mopsius)
Attacking Iran is economic suicide.
Getting ojut of Iraq is absolutely necessary.
Only about ten percent of US producers producer anything that CAN be exported (much of it isn't).
The party is over. The reserve status of the USD is gone.
January 2002 oil = ...( 3 months ago by mopsius)
January 2002 oil = $19 per barrel
2008 oil = $135-140+ per barrel (so far).
corr: there was no ...( 3 months ago by mopsius)
corr: there was no such thing as legal or illegal immigration until the early 20 century.
Most of the people in the US are descended from illegal immigrats, in the current definition, including the Pilgrims.
Merely by the way ...( 3 months ago by mopsius)
Merely by the way Spanish were in in California and New Mexico long before any Anglos arrived in the Eat.
Murdoch is a ...( 3 months ago by mopsius)
Murdoch is a Globalist bandit.
Reopublicans = ...( 3 months ago by mopsius)
Reopublicans = Theo-Fascists, Democrats = Neo-Fascist.
Only a few Socialists and Libertarians.
Military units in ...( 3 months ago by mopsius)
Military units in Iraq and elsewhere will see another hike in fuel costs next week, the second midyear increase because of soaring oil prices.
On July 1, the cost for refined fuel used by troops will jump from $127.68 a barrel to $170.94 — an astounding 34 percent jump in just six months and more than double what the Pentagon was paying three years ago. It's the second increase since prices were set at the beginning of the budget year, on Oct. 1.
June 27, 2008
mopsius- your ...( 2 months ago by HowdyCallmeDaddy)
mopsius- your retarded. First of this is a sovereign nation. Second the immigrants that came in the early 20 cetury crossed an ocean and never looked back to become Americans full of pride. Mexicans do not cross an ocean and leave everything behind. They live just across the way so they retain loyalty to the "home country" and with todays communication technologies the assimilation of the past simply will never ever take place what so ever with the Mexicans. The Mexican culture is not conducive
People like this ...( 2 months ago by HowdyCallmeDaddy)
People like this will try and possibly succeed in destroying this country.
mopisus...btw, the ...( 2 months ago by kskapyak)
mopisus...btw, the Spanish were Europeans. So, put that in your pipe and smoke it bitch.
— an astounding 34 percent jump in just six months and more than double what the Pentagon was paying three years ago. It's the second increase since prices were set at the beginning of the budget year, on Oct. 1. June 27, 2008