Comments on: A few thoughts http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/02/26/a-few-thoughts/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:19:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: 1Lulu http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/02/26/a-few-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-43609 1Lulu Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:17:19 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=5558#comment-43609 The problem with Zimbabwe's thriving economy was that it was based on the old colonial system. When I was there 18 years ago you saw unpaved roads and real poverty. But the system was racially based with minority white plantation owners and their majority poorly paid black workers. So, while robust in a sense, it was different than our economic system. But of course, instead of improving things, Zimbabwe was dragged down by foolish social and economic engineering. We will need to speak out again and again to defend our country from Obama's experiments. Why the rush, Barack? The problem with Zimbabwe’s thriving economy was that it was based on the old colonial system. When I was there 18 years ago you saw unpaved roads and real poverty. But the system was racially based with minority white plantation owners and their majority poorly paid black workers. So, while robust in a sense, it was different than our economic system. But of course, instead of improving things, Zimbabwe was dragged down by foolish social and economic engineering.

We will need to speak out again and again to defend our country from Obama’s experiments. Why the rush, Barack?

]]> By: David Foster http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/02/26/a-few-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-43596 David Foster Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:31:19 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=5558#comment-43596 Even in the Soviet Union, there wasn't always full employment. I read a very interesting book by a young American idealist, a welder, who went to Stalin-era Russia to work on a huge steel-factory construction project. He described hundreds of people jostlilng for a limited number of subsistence-level jobs unloading boxcars. Even in the Soviet Union, there wasn’t always full employment. I read a very interesting book by a young American idealist, a welder, who went to Stalin-era Russia to work on a huge steel-factory construction project. He described hundreds of people jostlilng for a limited number of subsistence-level jobs unloading boxcars.

]]> By: 11B40 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/02/26/a-few-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-43594 11B40 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:31:59 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=5558#comment-43594 Greetings: My all-time favorite bit of Soviet Russian folk wisdom, "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us." Greetings:

My all-time favorite bit of Soviet Russian folk wisdom, “We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.”

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