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South Africa: Jacob Zuma worries opposition with 'shift to socialism'
The Australian ^ | June 5, 2009 | Bruce Loudon

Posted on 06/04/2009 12:01:18 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

While leaders of the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, closely allied to the ruling African National Congress, praised Mr Zuma's speech, the main opposition Democratic Alliance said it was "marked by a very particular and distinct ideological shift towards a socialist agenda".

Mr Zuma vowed to create 500,000 jobs by the end of the year and to follow through on an ambitious government spending plan, which would pour billions into infrastructure and social spending.

He said an Expanded Public Works Program would be the main instrument for creating jobs, though critics say this would not be sustainable given the parlous state of the economy.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: africa; sacp; socialism; zuma
While leaders of the US Communist Party and the Congress of US Trade Unions, closely allied to the ruling Democratic Congress, praised Mr Obama's speech, the main opposition GOP Alliance said it was "marked by a very particular and distinct ideological shift towards a socialist agenda".

Mr Obama vowed to create 500,000 jobs by the end of the year and to follow through on an ambitious government spending plan, which would pour billions into infrastructure and social spending.

He said an Expanded Public Works Program would be the main instrument for creating jobs, though critics say this would not be sustainable given the parlous state of the economy.

1 posted on 06/04/2009 12:01:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

government funded jobs.... and where will this money come from?


2 posted on 06/04/2009 12:03:14 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now,----> tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They have an obama ‘mini-me’ ???


3 posted on 06/04/2009 12:05:16 PM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: GeronL

“government funded jobs.... and where will this money come from?”

The confiscated assets of ‘the rich.’

“Expanded Public Works Program”

Camps. Camps where whites and opposition will be placed in order to ‘reeducate’ them and euthanize them if they don’t change.


4 posted on 06/04/2009 12:11:19 PM PDT by Niuhuru
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m beginning to wonder if we will have to rely on the Chinese to put a stop to this terrorism.

Either that or India will colonize them.


5 posted on 06/04/2009 12:12:20 PM PDT by Niuhuru
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To: Niuhuru

> I’m beginning to wonder if we will have to rely on the Chinese to put a stop to this terrorism.

No danger of that: China will merely co-opt him, pay him off and make sure that the diamonds and gold and minerals keeps flowing onto the ships destined for Peking. It’s cheaper and easier to allow him to brutalize his own people, rather than having to pay full-time Chinese administrators to do it for him.


6 posted on 06/04/2009 12:15:36 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

Ironic isn’t it? And then the Chinese will eliminate him and put up a governor in his place once that is finished.

I am beginning to wonder who I should consider the enemy in all of this.


7 posted on 06/04/2009 12:20:45 PM PDT by Niuhuru
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To: DieHard the Hunter

I think you hit that on the head. It’s going to be far worse than anything the Afrikaaners did to the blacks, but it’s OK if they treat each other worse.

Southern Africa will be China’s raw materials source, and we will be frozen out.


8 posted on 06/04/2009 12:50:49 PM PDT by henkster (The GOP is housebroken window-dressing displayed to portray the fiction of a Republic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He’s another Mugabe..


9 posted on 06/04/2009 1:26:50 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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