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Socialism: the Aftermath (photo-essay)
Big Bureaucracy ^ | April 13th, 2010 | Ellie Velinska

Posted on 04/13/2010 9:32:14 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy

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1 posted on 04/13/2010 9:32:15 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
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To: Big Bureaucracy

INDEED.

THX.


2 posted on 04/13/2010 9:34:44 AM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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I often notice people in those yellow jackets “cleaning.” But there’ll be about ten of them cleaning one street corner!! What sense does that make? Obviously it’s all for show.


3 posted on 04/13/2010 9:36:45 AM PDT by Nea Wood (Silly liberal . . . paychecks are for workers!)
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To: Big Bureaucracy
Old saying in the former USSR....

Two guys are walking down the street. One is digging holes and the other is filling them in. A person asks why they are doing this. One guy says, well the guy that plants the trees was sick today and we still gotta work to get paid.

4 posted on 04/13/2010 9:36:58 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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To: Nea Wood

WOW.

THX.


5 posted on 04/13/2010 9:41:09 AM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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Socialists gave the capitalist a broom to sweep the streets. They came later - he is not sweeping.
- Why are you not working?
- I can’t find the remote control?
- Where have you seen a broom with a remote control?
- Where have you seen a capitalist with a broom?


6 posted on 04/13/2010 9:41:58 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
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To: Big Bureaucracy

99% sure these pics are not from America. Looks like a former soviet republic.

Look at the broom (hand made). Look at the apartments (typical soviet design). Look at the head gear. I could go on.


7 posted on 04/13/2010 9:47:47 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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The photos are from Bulgaria. The story is about the aftermath of the socialism there.


8 posted on 04/13/2010 9:51:10 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
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To: 2banana

Bulgaria.


9 posted on 04/13/2010 9:51:48 AM PDT by norton
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To: Big Bureaucracy

This is a nice post, thanks to Ellie and Nadine.


10 posted on 04/13/2010 9:53:41 AM PDT by norton
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To: Big Bureaucracy

I went to a park once in Dallas in the middle of the day. Sitting there in the middle of the parking lot was a City brish truck, they say there for over an hour.

I hope it was a lunch break.


11 posted on 04/13/2010 9:57:40 AM PDT by GeronL (Entitlement Zombies will become real zombies when the money runs out)
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This is FOX NEWS video about the sweepers in Philadelphia

http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/29/on-the-job-hunt-philly-works/

See if you can find resemblance..


12 posted on 04/13/2010 9:59:37 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
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To: Repeat Offender

Same in East Berlin.

Walk into a store whose windows were full of goods. Inside the shelves were bare. Then if you do manage to find something to buy there were four people to help you check out. Four people checking out the same purchase.

In this way it was easy for the communists to claim full-employment.


13 posted on 04/13/2010 10:02:40 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Alfred E. Neuman for President! Oh, wait a minute ...)
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To: Big Bureaucracy

$12 an hour to sweep sidewalks??

Are they insane?

I know thats a rhetorical question


14 posted on 04/13/2010 10:02:59 AM PDT by GeronL (Entitlement Zombies will become real zombies when the money runs out)
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To: 2banana
99% sure these pics are not from America. Looks like a former soviet republic. Look at the broom (hand made). Look at the apartments (typical soviet design). Look at the head gear. I could go on.

Make that "100% sure." Look at the last line of the article: "This is not the case in Plovdiv, Bulgaria – as you see from the photo evidence."

Regards,

15 posted on 04/13/2010 10:06:35 AM PDT by alexander_busek
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To: GeronL

Did you see the video?
They will earn Earned Income Tax credit for this wages.
Also they have matching work outfits with their Bulgarian counterparts.
This is how socialism works.


16 posted on 04/13/2010 10:08:22 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
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To: alexander_busek

Check the link for the Philadelphia sweepers - I just added it to the article because some folks asked.


17 posted on 04/13/2010 10:11:17 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
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To: VeniVidiVici
Same in East Berlin. Walk into a store whose windows were full of goods. Inside the shelves were bare. Then if you do manage to find something to buy there were four people to help you check out. Four people checking out the same purchase.

East German joke:

A man is shopping in a department store in East Berlin. He's looking for a hat for his wife. Frustrated, he goes up to the front desk and asks for a lady's hat. The saleslady replies: "Oh, you are wrong here! Here, we don't have ladies undergarmets. You have to go upstairs to our other department. There, we don't have ladies' hats."

Regards,

18 posted on 04/13/2010 10:11:17 AM PDT by alexander_busek
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To: Big Bureaucracy

yup.

Its crazy


19 posted on 04/13/2010 10:11:54 AM PDT by GeronL (Entitlement Zombies will become real zombies when the money runs out)
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May be if the folks in BG were paid $12/hour like their friends sweeping in Philadelphia - they would be actually sweeping too :)


20 posted on 04/13/2010 10:15:09 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
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