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Shocking Poll on Socialism in America
Fox Nation ^ | 29 Dec 2011 | Bernie Becker,

Posted on 12/29/2011 3:53:07 PM PST by mandaladon

While capitalism received a largely favorable response, Pew also found that at least 25 percent of respondents across all age groups, races, income levels and ideologies were dismissive of capitalism.

Tea Party sympathizers, conservative Republicans and those making more than $75,000 a year were the most likely to respond positively, while slightly more than half of blacks and Hispanics took the opposite view.

Almost 50 percent of those aged 18 to 29, those making less than $30,000 a year and Occupy Wall Street backers also had an unfavorable reaction to capitalism.

A majority of blacks and liberal Democrats, meanwhile, reacted positively to socialism. But while reactions to capitalism were fairly consistent across all age groups, 18-to-29-year-olds were more than three times more likely (49 percent to 13 percent) to endorse socialism than those older than 65.

(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: socialism
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To: DJ Taylor

“Socialism works great until you run out of Chinese money.”

thanks for the new tag!


41 posted on 12/29/2011 7:03:56 PM PST by bitt (Socialism works great until you run out of Chinese money.)
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To: Mama Shawna

You did indeed read my mind! I too love The Kingston Trio! The lyrics of this song are fitting for any time in the Atomic Age History.


42 posted on 12/29/2011 7:39:16 PM PST by Graewoulf (( obama"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND is illegal by the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: Graewoulf

:) Grew up on the Kingston Trio. This song popped into my head a couple months ago...had to look it up to remember the title, then had to learn it on my guitar! Can’t remember what made me think of it, but it’s a great little tune, and like you said, always fitting!


43 posted on 12/29/2011 8:13:22 PM PST by Mama Shawna
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To: Noob1999
the Mexicans owning or working for a contracting firm are the hardest workers, and take great pride in their trade, much greater than the whites.

If you knowing hired Mexican NAtionals to work for you then you are a criminal.

If those were US citizens of Mexican decent then they were hard working AMERICANS. Your comments are totally racist.

44 posted on 12/29/2011 8:25:05 PM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: loveliberty2

Thank you for that. It’s great.


45 posted on 12/29/2011 9:05:01 PM PST by No One Special
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To: mandaladon
A majority of blacks and liberal Democrats, meanwhile, reacted positively to socialism.

It is telling to see the attempt to separate "blacks" as being something other than "liberal Democrats."

Soooooo, just how many blacks are running around being classified only as "conservatives?"

































Yeah, that's the answer I usually get...

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46 posted on 12/29/2011 9:20:59 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: M-cubed
I liked this comment...

Have not even one of these foolish kids figured out how badly they have been ripped off by these lame institutions of academia who are putting them into lifelong debt servitude for information dissemination that can literally be had for free on the internet.
47 posted on 12/29/2011 9:45:25 PM PST by JediJones (Newt-er Obama in 2012!)
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To: Scotsman will be Free
More proof that we need a divorce. I just wish that we could get on with it and get it over with.

Yeah, it is getting that way, either we break away from them or we fight them, soon we might have to make a choice.
48 posted on 12/29/2011 11:21:27 PM PST by Nowhere Man ("What if the US became the USSR and the USSR became the US?" - Me, September of 1983)
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To: JediJones

“Despite the college education, they are completely ignorant of the basic principles of economics.”
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Despite the colege DEGREE....they don’t have a college education, they don’t even have a REAL high school education, most of them could not pass an eighth grade final from sixty years ago.


49 posted on 12/30/2011 5:29:23 AM PST by RipSawyer (This does not end well!)
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To: mandaladon

Our language has been re-shaped to favor Socialism. “Capitalism” is itself a word coined by Karl Marx. Otherwise we would use the term “free enterprise” or something like that.

Satan has found a movement that works for him; his Socialism is breaking down the family, the government, education, religion and entertainment, and the media, using and abusing the very language that we use to try to communicate. He has stacked the deck.

However, he is not the one in charge. He is being watched and is moving according to God’s schedule as shown in The Revelation.

Come, Lord Jesus.


50 posted on 12/30/2011 5:44:50 AM PST by RoadTest (There is one god, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.)
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To: No One Special
Happy to know you appreciated my contribution to the thread. IMHO, polls, such as the one cited here, simply reflect decades of neglect and intentional disregard for teaching rising generations the essential ideas of liberty so well understood in 1776 and 1787.
51 posted on 12/30/2011 8:07:11 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: central_va

.................Your comments are totally racist. ............

Thanks for the kind comments, A-hole!

When I hire contractors, I only check to be sure they have Worker’s Comp, I don’t search their “papers”!


52 posted on 12/30/2011 2:23:19 PM PST by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: loveliberty2

I agree. Understanding our founding principles will really help in giving a sense of wonder for the American experiment which will help in turning around the situation we find ourselves in.


53 posted on 12/30/2011 2:25:55 PM PST by No One Special
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To: mandaladon

I think they are confusing the hippies from the sixties who are not socialists but social idiots.


54 posted on 12/30/2011 2:32:29 PM PST by jetson
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To: Noob1999

Criminal.


55 posted on 12/30/2011 5:50:00 PM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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