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suston96 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 03:48 PM
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9. Not "privatizing".
Republicans changed their minds about "privatizing". Too easy to make it into "piratizing".

This 100% capitalism, as it is called by Newt Gingrich, where every American is a stockholder in the American dream. Good idea?

Flash back to 1929.

Every American and all their relatives were in the stockmarket. The shoeshine boy, the newspaper stand guy, the street cleaner - all owned stocks. It was a mania. Compare today to lottery ticket players.

So what happened in October, 1929?

Crrrrrrrash!

And all those dreams went out the window along with a lot of those stockholders and brokers.

Neat idea, Mr. Gingrich! Sell your dream to these modern day capitalist wannabes!

Hold your breath, sir. They ain't gonna buy.
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