Re: [tlug] The Death of Socialism

[Graham Iphone <grbriggs@example.com>]

On 2009/08/11, at 11:44, Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com> wrote:

> On 2009-08-10 14:22 +0900 (Mon), Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:
>
> > George Reismann has written responses....
>
> Now claiming that every socialist country has collapsed is one thing,
> and I'm used to that at this point. (Americans just don't like Canada,
> and appear still to be annoyed by us burning down the White House back
> in 1812. What the've got against all those European countries I'm  
> not so
> sure.)
>
> But to promote this idea in a forum full of Americans who have
> voluntarially moved to a socialist country that at this point owns a
> fairly sizable chunk of America[1] is a pretty impressive display of,
> well, I'm not sure I have a word for this, actually. And never mind  
> that
> the central bank of an actual communist country owns even more....

Don't know about derivations of socialist states, but I heard that the  
US govt. is big on state ownership ?