[Army Air Corps]

Sounds like he is advocating the same old tired socialism with a bit of eco-freak crap tossed into the mix.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I think the results of the past century have proven that any economic model can be subverted and used as a vehicle for would-be oligarchs to seize power. It isn't about changing the model - it's about permanently limiting the scope of government authority.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Yeah, that’s the guy we should be taking advice from: A has-been, washed up communist tyrant!

[BenLurkin]

Why would we take advice from the guy who LOST the cold war?

[eclecticEel]

The old communist can’t help but view the world from within the confines of his failed ideology.

[goodnesswins]

Like we should take advice from a GREENIE Communist....

[americanophile]

Sounds like someone looking to vindicate his life viewpoints; looking to rescue his legacy. If he can claim that Reagan’s model was no better, that makes his own catastrophic failure seem less so. Beware this ‘new model,’ however, for it bares a striking resemblance to an old one. It’s called socialism.

[BARLF]

Commenting on the current global economic crisis, the ex-Soviet president who presided over the collapse of his country, said that it was now clear to him "that the new Western model was an illusion that benefited chiefly the very rich.

That is a lie.

Socialists always use class warfare to promote their agenda.

[gaijin]

Now we’ll have TWO Jimmy Carters?

Both over-the-hill LOSERS touted as demi-Gods, blathering to no end and slumming around on college campi.

OH GREAT...!

[IronJack]

America taking economic advice from a failed leader of a backward country with a despotic past and a failed economic theory. What’s next? Clyde Barrow advising bank examiners? Jeffrey Dahmer given his own cooking show?

[FLAMING DEATH]

Yeah, it only sustained itself for 230 years or so. It finally started to show signs of faltering when, interestingly enough, idiot socialist politicians started messing with it.

[justa-hairyape]

Hey Gorby, all we have learned is that you cannot combine Marxism with Capitalism. They are incompatible. So when the Dot Com companies offered free services, (free IP service, free PC, free shipping), the companies all went bust. When the Financial Companies offered credit to those who cannot afford it, they all went bust. The rest of us companies who kept Marxism Ideals out of the company, are doing relatively well, considering how world governments are miss handling the problems.