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To: Yehuda
Please note that the same socialism of 70 years ago is alive and well in most synagogues today.

If the “Jewish Socialist State is dead” as you posted, why is Israel still so heavily socialized?

My post was meant to point out that those who will not learn will suffer the consequences. My tolerance for socialism is low from having to deal with it in two areas, environmentalism and education. In the Everglades, calling the place “The Socialist Swamp” is an understatement.

PS Your assumption I am a gentile would surprise the Rabbi who oversaw my Bar Mitzvah

59 posted on 03/19/2012 4:19:57 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
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To: GladesGuru; Yehuda
Please note that the same socialism of 70 years ago is alive and well in most synagogues today.

Socialism works fine in small societies where every member willingly accepts the rules. The tragedy of commons strikes when some members start subverting the rules.

As an example, most families live by communist principles: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." This is possible only because the society in question is very small; also, it fails in many families - as soon as one member decides that he doesn't want to work and doesn't care about others.

62 posted on 03/19/2012 5:47:33 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: GladesGuru

You claim you are a self hating Jew?..... Not too original. I’m not impressed.


64 posted on 03/19/2012 8:03:56 PM PDT by dennisw (A nation of sheep breeds a government of Democrat wolves!)
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