[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Thank you for the large quote. Very helpful.

There are two kinds of deals — good and bad.

‘one of the biggest criticisms of today’s Congressional Republicans’

— BAD deals. That is the very point of the Trump campaign. They are horrible deal makers. Fifth-columnist-bad. So that’s actually a trick on Sowell’s part.

[Thought I’d never accuse Sowell of that.]

“politically successful deall than that which Neville Chamberlain ...”

Also a trick. Chamberlain was an appeaser. How can ANYONE say that Trump is appeasing muslims?

Goofy trick. He jumped the shark twice.

“Barack Obama just make a deal with Iran ...”

Doubling down on Jump the Shark 2.

“Kelo v. City of New London”

Finally, he scores!

Did Sowell hire someone else to write this? Very beneath him.

I admire Thomas Sowell and can forgive him for this in an instant, but he’s getting silly. Kelo was the only effective argument he made, and he buried it.

[dsc]

“BAD deals. That is the very point of the Trump campaign. They are horrible deal makers. Fifth-columnist-bad. So that’s actually a trick on Sowell’s part.”

No, Sowell’s point is that a bad deal is worse than no deal, and that it is not always possible to get a good deal. Sometimes you really don’t want a deal.

“Goofy trick. He jumped the shark twice.”

He was saying something I was thinking about just this morning.

Bipartisanship is when the Stupid Party and the Evil Party get together and do something that is both stupid and evil.

Should better deals be the goal? I say no. Any deal gives the Evil Party something they want, and, as everything they want is evil (whether in the goal or the execution), no deal is acceptable. Our goal should be to give them nothing, ever. More than this, we must strive to undo all the evil things they have done in the last century or so.

Some demonrat years ago accused us of being the party of no, no, no. no, no, no, no. He was lying, but that’s really all they ought to hear from the rest of us, until we are able to drive them completely out of public life.

All that said, we have had nothing but humiliating surrender since Ronaldus Magnus, and the better deals that Trump promises would have to be an improvement on that. Not good enough to be called a solution, but better.

What I think will happen is that Trump will try to make a couple of deals, the demonrats will stab him in the back, and from that point forward he will see them for what they are and act accordingly.

[Yosemitest]

Verify the definition yourself !

Definition: Socialism is a political term applied to an economic system in which property is held in common and not individually, and relationships are governed by a political hierarchy.
Common ownership doesn't mean decisions are made collectively, however.
Instead, individuals in positions of authority make decisions in the name of the collective group.
Regardless of the picture painted of socialism by its proponents, it ultimately removes group decision making in favor of the choices of one all-important individual.

Socialism originally involved the replacement of private property with a market exchange, but history has proven this ineffective.
Socialism cannot prevent people from competing for what is scarce.
Socialism as we know it today, most commonly refers to "market socialism,"
which involves individual market exchanges organized by collective planning.

People often confuse "socialism" with the concept of "communism."
While the two ideologies share much in common -- in in fact communism encompasses socialism -- the primary difference between the two is that "socialism" applies to economic systems,
whereas "communism" applies to both economic and political systems.

Another difference between socialism and communism is that communists directly oppose the concept of capitalism, an economic system in which production is controlled by private interests.
Socialists, on the other hand, believe socialism can exist within a capitalist society.

Pronunciation: soeshoolizim

Also Known As: Bolshevism, Fabianism, Leninism, Maoism, Marxism, collective ownership, collectivism, communism, state ownerhsip

Alternate Spellings: none

Common Misspellings: none

Examples: "Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality.
But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."
-- French historian and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville

"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents."
-- author George Orwell

So how would YOU define someone who LOVES and USES "EMINENT DOMAIN" to acquire property to build his Hotels ?

Think about this:

Comparison chart

	Communism	Socialism
Philosophy	From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. Free-access to the articles of consumption is made possible by advances in technology that allow for super-abundance.	From each according to his ability, to each according to his contribution. Emphasis on profit being distributed among the society or workforce to complement individual wages/salaries.
Ideas	All people are the same and therefore classes make no sense. The government should own all means of production and land and also everything else. People should work for the government and the collective output should be redistributed equally.	All individuals should have access to basic articles of consumption and public goods to allow for self-actualization. Large-scale industries are collective efforts and thus the returns from these industries must benefit society as a whole.
Key Proponents	Karl Marx, Fredrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky.	Robert Owen, Pierre Leroux, Karl Marx, Fredrick Engels, John Stuart Mill, Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw, Thorstein Veblen, Emma Goldman.
Key Elements	Centralized government, planned economy, dictatorship of the "proletariat", common ownership of the tools of production, no private property. equality between genders and all people, international focus. Usually anti-democratic with a 1-party system.	Economic activity and production especially are adjusted by the State to meet human needs and economic demands. "Production for use": useful goods and services are produced specifically for their usefulness.
Political System	A communist society is stateless, classless and is governed directly by the people. This however has never been practised.	Can coexist with different political systems. Most socialists advocate participatory democracy, some (Social Democrats) advocate parliamentary democracy, and Marxist-Leninists advocate "Democratic centralism."
Political Movements	Leninism, Trotskyism, Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, Left-Communism, Stalinism.	Democratic socialism, communism, libertarian socialism, social anarchism, and syndicalism.
Private Property	Abolished. The concept of property is negated and replaced with the concept of commons and ownership with "usership".	Two kinds of property: Personal property, such as houses, clothing, etc. owned by the individual. Public property includes factories, and means of production owned by the State but with worker control.
Economic Coordination	Economic planning coordinates all decisions regarding investment, production and resource allocation. Planning is done in terms of physical units instead of money.	Planned-socialism relies principally on planning to determine investment and production decisions. Planning may be centralized or decentralized. Market-socialism relies on markets for allocating capital to different socially-owned enterprises.
Definition	International theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, with actual ownership ascribed to the community or state. Rejection of free markets and extreme distrust of Capitalism in any form.	A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of most property in common, with actual ownership ascribed to the workers.
Religion	Abolished - all religious and metaphysics is rejected.	Freedom of religion, but usually promotes secularism.
Ownership Structure	The means of production are commonly-owned, meaning no entity or individual owns productive property. Importance is ascribed to "usership" over "ownership".	The means of production are socially-owned with the surplus value produced accruing to either all of society (in Public-ownership models) or to all the employee-members of the enterprise (in Cooperative-ownership models).
Social Structure	All class distinctions are eliminated.	Class distinctions are diminished. Status derived more from political distinctions than class distinctions. Some mobility.
Economic System	The means of production are held in common, negating the concept of ownership in capital goods. Production is organized to provide for human needs directly without any use for money. Communism is predicated upon a condition of material abundance.	The means of production are owned by public enterprises or cooperatives, and individuals are compensated based on the principle of individual contribution. Production may variously be coordinated through either economic planning or markets.
Free Choice	Either the collective "vote" or the state's rulers make economic and political decisions for everyone else. In practice, rallies, force, propaganda etc. are used by the rulers to control the populace.	Religion, jobs, & marriage are up to the individual. Compulsory education. Free, equal access to healthcare & education provided through a socialized system funded by taxation. Production decisions driven more by State decision than consumer demand.
Discrimination	In theory, all members of the state are considered equal.	The people are considered equal; laws are made when necessary to protect people from discrimination. Immigration is often tightly controlled.
Way of Change	Government in a Communist-state is the agent of change rather than any market or desire on the part of consumers. Change by government can be swift or slow, depending on change in ideology or even whim.	Workers in a socialist state are the nominal agent of change rather than any market or desire on the part of consumers. Change by the State on behalf of workers can be swift or slow, depending on change in ideology or even whim.
Examples	Ideally, there is no leader; the people govern directly. This has never been actually practiced, and has just used a one-party system. Examples 0f Communist states are the erstwhile Soviet Union, Cuba and North Korea.	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR): although the actual categorization of the USSR's economic system is in dispute, it is often considered to be a form of centrally-planned socialism.
Earliest Remnants	Theorized by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in the mid-19th century as an alternative to capitalism and feudalism, communism was not tried out until after the revolution in Russia in the early 1910s.	In 1516, Thomas More write in "Utopia" about a society based around common ownership of property. In 1776, Adam Smith advocated the labor theory of value, ignoring the previous Cantillonian view that prices are derived from supply and demand.

[Yosemitest]

If you're backing SOCIALIST Trump for President, ponder this .

Donald Trump and Eminent Domain, August 22nd, 2015

... More, Trump has publicly defended the confiscation of private property for eminent domain, even when the use for which the property is confiscated is purely private in nature:

Trump consistently defended the use of eminent domain.
Interviewed by John Stossel on ABC News, he said:
"Cities have the right to condemn for the good of the city.
Everybody coming into Atlantic City sees this terrible house instead of staring at beautiful fountains and beautiful other things that would be good."
Challenged by Stossel, he said
that eminent domain was necessary to build schools and roads.
But of course he just wanted to build a limousine parking lot.

Once again, this is Donald Trump's vision of private property rights when he was just another private citizen.
Imagine how much more damage he could do as the leader of the Federal executive branch.

Thomas Sowell called it CORRECTLY !

...Trump boasts that he can make deals, among his many other boasts.
But is a deal-maker what this country needs at this crucial time?
Is not one of the biggest criticisms of today's Congressional Republicans
that they have made all too many deals with Democrats,
betraying the principles on which they ran for office?

Bipartisan deals -- so beloved by media pundits -- have produced some of the great disasters in American history.

Contrary to the widespread view
that the Great Depression of the 1930s was caused by the stock market crash of 1929,
unemployment never reached double digits in any of the 12 months that followed the stock market crash in October, 1929.

Unemployment was 6.3 percent in June 1930 when a Democratic Congress and a Republican president made a bipartisan deal that produced the Smoot-Hawley tariffs.
Within 6 months, unemployment hit double digits --
and stayed in double digits throughout the entire decade of the 1930s.

You want deals?
There was never a more politically successful deall than that which Neville Chamberlain made in Munich in 1938.
He was hailed as a hero, not only by his own party but even by opposition parties, when he returned with a deal that Chamberlain said meant "peace for our time."
But, just one year later, the biggest, bloodiest and most ghastly war in history began.

If deal-making is your standard,
didn't Barack Obama just make a deal with Iran --
one that may have bigger and worse consequences than Chamberlain's deal?

What kind of deals would Donald Trump make?
He has already praised the Supreme Court's decision in "Kelo v. City of New London" which said
that the government can seize private property to turn it over to another private party.

That kind of decision is good for an operator like Donald Trump.
Doubtless other decisions that he would make as president would also be good for Donald Trump,
even if for nobody else.