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To: DreamsofPolycarp

Does your concept of “free market” include sweatshops? Do you really think you or anyone else can compete or offer your services for prices lower than can be found under communist oppression? Are you understanding at all why some of us are a little chilled by this trend?


294 posted on 04/25/2007 7:44:00 AM PDT by mysterio
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To: mysterio
Do you really think you or anyone else can compete or offer your services for prices lower than can be found under communist oppression?

The only places I know of who believe ANYTHING found in communism are Cuba and Venezuela. Raising the spectre of communism when talking about China is just a little disengenuous. The only thing the party members believe in in China is that the party should retain power. None of them believe in communism anymore, although there is the normal lip service given every so often. Are they totalitarian? Sure. So is every nation state in the middle east and most in Africa. Do I trust them? No way. However, it is silly to point to them like they were running around clutching Mao's little red book. In very many ways, they are more free market than we are.

305 posted on 04/25/2007 11:33:17 AM PDT by DreamsofPolycarp (Ron Paul in '08)
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