Posted on 01/26/2019 6:53:29 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Home Depot billionaire co-founder Bernie Marcus said Friday that the growing appeal to socialism in America comes out of the universities.
Marcus, during an interview with Fox News' Neil Cavuto, discussed the deterioration of socialist Venezuela and Cuba, comparing the situations in those countries today with the realities there decades ago, pre-socialist rule. Marcus called the economic downturns in each of those countries, Cuba, in particular, a "perfect example of socialism gone wrong."
"almost 50 percent of students coming out of universities today believe that socialism is the answer. That's frightening to me..." "They [Cuba] took a great country. They put it right down the drain in every way possible," Marcus said. "People are starving to death. Medical [care] is not available for them. And we have a group of people in Washington today, new representatives especially, that look at socialism as the way to go and if you don't think that's dangerous, I do."
Marcus further addressed where he believes the growing socialist sentiment among Americans is coming from.
"It comes right out of the universities. You see students graduating today and a very high percentage...almost 50 percent of students coming out of universities today believe that socialism is the answer," Marcus said. "That's frightening to me because the things that made this country great, that created the wealth of this country, and I mean the wealth of every single person right down the line, the best medical care in the world, the best housing in the world, that's why people want to come here, is because of the system, and that's the free enterprise system."
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Most universities nowadays are the equivalent to enemy camps.
Well, a LOT of American jobs have been sent elsewhere, especially to China.
China is not socialist, China is communist.
We cannot de-industrialize and think it won’t impact America.
Socialism is just Communism Lite.
They call themselves comunists but they technically are socialists.
Communism is acheved when even the state dissolves and now that everyone can self monitor themselves and each other, and all think and work for everyone, and no one/everyone owns nothing/everything.
Socialism is where the state controls the progress of moving from the intermediary state of socialism, to communism.
Would this be the very same Home Depot that allows Illegal immigrant day laborers to beg for work in front of their stores?
But Democrats said we would all be fine, and have jobs in the service industry. Unfortunately, those service industry jobs got taken over by people in India, Mexico, Philippines, etc. What jobs were left are taken by illegal aliens. The negative impact on America is tremendous. President Trump has quite the challenge to turn it around for our benefit.
We won the battles but it looks like we lost the war when Obama became President and helped our enemies.
More and more I think the smart play is that for ANYTHING outside of a hard science, IT and maybe business:
You’re simply better off just NOT going to college at all.
More and more Unis are indoctrination centers, EXPENSIVE ones, at that.
It is actually coming out of High Schools now.
“Nowadays?”
Pal I graduated from UC Berkeley in Mechanical Engineering in 1965 and the “Free Speech Movement” was in full swing. At Berkeley, Engineering was isolated in the northeast corner of the campus and we stayed completely out of the “rabble in Sproul Plaza! Today’s human $hit still hangs out at Sather Gate and dribbles down Telegraph Avenue like it did nearly 60 years ago. It’s always been like that.
Well yeah, it’s Berkeley...lol...My post read, “Most” the universities nowadays have become enemy camps”, not just the leftist stronghold of Berkeley.
And, btw, let’s stop beating around the bush.
Anybody that is democrat nowadays, is a socialist. Whatever it meant to be a democrat 100 years ago, or even a few decades ago, does not mean the same today. The ‘democratic party’ has kept the name, but, reality is that, it’s nowhere close to ‘democratic’. Democrats are now about government control over every facet of American life.
Any time democrats take control of any kind of government, whether district or country or city or state or even the federal government, they will implement more government control over the people and industries and over our personal lives. NEVER FAILS. And, they know that they have to fully implement socialism in order to prevent the retraction of any programs and laws and control they’ve implemented. It’s why California and NY have gone full-socialist: they control everything; there is no going back.
Not saying it doesn't happen, but not at my store.
Don’t forget to do your In Focus.
Don’t forget to do your In Focus.
Yep. And Trump mentioned the other day, “The Democrat party has become radicalized.”
He ain’t whistlin’ Dixie.
I always do, and it’s always a joke. Right now I have to renew my EPJ license.
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