Berlin Wall would have been 50 years old (pictures)

[chadbag]

http://mediagallery.usatoday.com/Berlin+Wall,+then+and+now/G2603?csp=ftsmpg

[QuietShootr]

http://www.berlin-brigade.de/ab-ssi/abz49.jpg

[SteyrAUG]

While I'm glad it's down and East Germany is free, it is also regrettable in the sense that there were few better examples of the severe difference between capitalism and communism.

[Belmont31R]

While I'm glad it's down and East Germany is free, it is also regrettable in the sense that there were few better examples of the severe difference between capitalism and communism.



There still is just they are not front page news anymore.

China, to this day, is just as brutal to ethnic minorities such as the Uighur's which 99/100 people would not even know about. Yeah I made that figure up but Ive never met a single person who has even heard the word.

Not to mention the SLAVE factories Chinese made goods are produced in.


Its also BLARING in our faces with multiple European countries facing default and needing bail outs. Our own "Fed" spent 16,000,000,000,000 dollars on bail outs around the world.


Things are still the same. We may not be facing MAD anymore...but communism is still alive and well. Its infiltrated the Oval Office here, and we've all seen what its done for our economy. Our own country spends well over a trillion dollars a year on welfare programs, schools, take overs of businesses and handing control over to the workers, ect. We have a modified version of it...21st century communism where those at the top have realized with the rule of law the government can be still be in charge of the means of production. I mean Stalin would be outright jealous at the lavish lifestyle our presidents lead....why go through the trouble of land reforms when you just have a few big companies running it all, and you let their top guys live in luxury and do the work for you. No need to go around executing people.


The world has changed a lot in the past 20 years.



http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4081/4924169009_67a34ef527.jpg



Thats the Texas state budget. Its here.....

[Belmont31R]

I should also say it was HERE before the Berlin wall ever went up, and before the Cold War ever started....



It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth—is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.
This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights—among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty.
As our nation has grown in size and stature, however—as our industrial economy expanded—these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.
We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.”[2] People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.
Among these are:
The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
The right of every family to a decent home;
The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
The right to a good education.
All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.
America's own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for all our citizens.
For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.



http://youtu.be/G7L3xpElK0Y



Its still here.

[Moose-Knuckle]

A peek behind the curtain will show the same wizards pulling their puppet's strings on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

The Cold War was an experiment to see what "system" the global elitists would implement. Now, you see that we have a blend of both.

Belmont is correct, it is here and it's been here longer than most realize.

Redistribution of wealth, The War on Poverty, et al. . .

[Belmont31R]

21st Century Communism won't be like 20th Century Communism.


They are like the Borg. Yes I like Sci-Fi to an extent.




No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao's words in Tahrir Square.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/sites/all/files/imagecache/teaser-large/images/teasers/Obama_bowing_to_Hu-Jintao.jpg

[Moose-Knuckle]

21st Century Communism won't be like 20th Century Communism.

Communism is a mere vessel of Social Engineering. We haven't seen anything yet!



They are like the Borg.

Not to far from the truth friend.

"Resistance is Futile"

"You will be assimilated"