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Old 05-09-2008, 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by JavaBlack View Post
I guess the problem is that democracy is not the opposite of socialism...
We've never been 100% democracy. And we've always had something short of 100% capitalism.
100% of either wouldn't really be a good idea.
I disagree with this statement. At some point each of the founding fathers signed that piece of papar called "THE CONSTITUTION".
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