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Recent content by RDKirk

  1. RDKirk

    Communism- Socialism

    But people do have to buy food, and for many people there aren't that many different food outlets available. My own neighborhood is about to become a technical food desert next month when the nearby Tom Thumb closes. The next closest grocery store will be a Whole Foods about five miles...
  2. RDKirk

    Communism- Socialism

    Whoa, that is totally an argument based on ignorance of the matter. It's totally untrue that "newer cars just about diagnose themselves." The basic lament for those who work on cars (including myself) is "Mechanics hate engineers." Modern cars are far, far, far more difficult to repair than...
  3. RDKirk

    Communism- Socialism

    So, what would be wrong with workers recuperating from the banging they also got under Covid. Yes, some areas got increased pay, but many didn't. And where pay was increased, it was only because workers staged what was effectively a strike in those areas. That is not attributable to an...
  4. RDKirk

    Communism- Socialism

    Price and value are often not the same. First, value is always a matter of worth to the buyer. But just because a think is worth less doesn't always mean the price goes down. The market for new cars, for instance, is plunging...but the prices aren't going down. And during the Covid...
  5. RDKirk

    Communism- Socialism

    Well, so is food. Something similar happens with food.
  6. RDKirk

    Communism- Socialism

    So, all those other enterprises (ahem, businesses) were already corrupted.
  7. RDKirk

    Communism- Socialism

    Shall I begin posting articles about corruption in just about everything?
  8. RDKirk

    Communism- Socialism

    Unions are the reason Communism did not invade the US...which is the reason Theodore Roosevelt supported them. Unions gave enough power to labor against the established power of the robber barons that fire-stopped Communist revolution. If you work a 40-hour week, get breaks during the day...
  9. RDKirk

    Communism- Socialism

    Heck, there is a lot of corruption in Congress. There's a lot of corruption on Wall Street. “If labor is to enter into the life of the Republic, it must organize; for organized capital is already entrenched.” -- Theodore Roosevelt
  10. RDKirk

    Communism- Socialism

    It would be a return to the 70s.
  11. RDKirk

    Communism- Socialism

    There are specific things that happened in the 1980s that made the current runaway aggregation of wealth possible. A wave of financial deregulation began in the 1980s and peaked with the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 (which, interestingly, was opposed by a single Congressman out of...
  12. RDKirk

    Should doctors be able to withold treatment for political affiliation or marital status?

    If this were a true "safe space" for...whomever...there would be no opposite opinions allowed whatsoever. You seemed to have a problem understanding "...no opposite opinions allowed whatsoever," so I repeated it.
  13. RDKirk

    Should doctors be able to withold treatment for political affiliation or marital status?

    If this were a true "safe space" for...whomever...there would be no opposite opinions allowed whatsoever.
  14. RDKirk

    Communism- Socialism

    That is a change that somehow happened in the early 1900s. The very wealthy changed their appearance from robber barons to social benefactors. I don't know why or how (and in many ways it was only a matter of appearance). But that went away during the 1980s, the "greed is good" era, the...
  15. RDKirk

    Communism- Socialism

    Jesus noted that specific problem even in His time. He literally cursed such people.
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