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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by arbfbe Also, big government does not equate communism. Look it up in the dictionary sometime before you bandy it about. "From each according to his abilities and to each according to his needs", does not at any point mention big government.[/quote] Interesting. Perhaps it is you who should look it up. com·mu·nism n. 1. A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members. 2. A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people. That pretty much says it all. A simplified version is that the large government entity takes the country's assets as a whole, and divides them up among the people. A trivial example would be if I made $200/week and you made $100/week, we would each receive $150/week under this type of system. It "levels the playing field" so to speak, which in my mind, is what a lot of social programs seek to do. We do not need the government to tell us how to live or spend our paychecks for us, that's not what it was built for. You are certainly entitled to your opinion, and I to mine on a great many things, including the funding...or lack therof...for Amtrak. However, in the future, refrain from advising me to look something up in the dictionary sometime before I banty about it. Much less when it's you who needed to look it up.
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