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Climate Scientist Jump ship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Y9EZDdpUwHide the decline, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrd3HYU80Dk
Costa Rica is expensive, even more so than the states. In South Carolina you can get acreage, a beautiful home and taxes under $1000
http://www.oldhouses.com/8366?searchlist=10620,24583,24591,24696,24702,24499,24685,8366,24877,24293,15418,9426,24483&searchname=Listings%20In%20South%20Carolina&searchdest=%2Fcf%2Flistinglist%2Ecfm%3Fq_listingstate%3DSC%26searchname%3DListings%2BIn%2BSouth%2520CarolinaIn CR many homes are for sale, but the majority of buyer who can afford them are not ticos; this results in a huge rental market one of the only goods deals besides mangos. The end result of Socialism is you eventually run out of other peoples money.
I could not find a Bali style model or any product built with termite resistant wood. If you know of such a product at that price please let me know.
Progressives do not have any libertarian bones in their bodies. Their god is equality. That which serves their god is tolerated. That which offends their god is ruthlessly stamped out, just look around(Venezuela, Cuba)
In the United States being liberal means advocating a totalitarian state
where only liberal” ideas are valid. If American liberals support a totalitarian state based only upon their ideas, then they cannot be liberal in the classical sense. American liberals are hardly independent-minded. They must follow the strict party line of the Democrat Party, much as communists had to follow the strict communist party line, and Nazis had to follow the Nazi party line. American liberals do not think for themselves; they have been told what to think and how to think. Almost all American liberals have been psychologically conditioned and programmed to act this way by the American public school system, where independent thought is not allowed. In the United States students must believe what their teachers believe. To express ideas contrary to their teachers’ beliefs risks getting a failing grade, or worse. It is an atmosphere much like one would have found in a school in Nazi Germany or in the former Soviet Union. Straying from the Democrat party line is not tolerated. Tolerance is always trumpeted by Liberals but only if you are in lock-step with their ideology.[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”rfs1975″]Of course, if you are subscribing to left-wing journals like Mother Jones or Salon, I can then understand how you are confused[/quote]
And if I’m not? (Which happens to be the case)So picking up on that thought I left earlier, the American Nazi Party is a bunch of arch liberals? Huh.[/quote]
The difference of Nazism from other brands of socialism and communism was not so much that it included more aspects from the political right . What distinguished Nazism was that it included a worldview we now associate almost completely with the political left: identity politics. This was what distinguished Nazism from communism, and it seems hard to argue the marriage of one leftist vision to another can somehow produce right-wing progeny. If this was how the world worked, we would have to label nationalist-socialist organizations like the PLO and Cuban Communist Party right-wing. Of course, if you are subscribing to left-wing journals like Mother Jones or Salon, I can then understand how you are confused.
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”rfs1975″]The major flaw in all of this is that fascism, properly understood, is not a phenomenon of the right at all. Instead, it is, and always has been, a phenomenon of the left.[/quote]
I guess Hitler, Mussolini and Franco were really confused then because they imprisoned all the leftists and allied themselves with the right wing power centers – the Catholic Church, the military and the corporate plutocrats.[/quote]
I have to disagree with Sprite’s assessment.
Modern day Liberal logic seems to be that multiculturalism, the Peace Corps, and such are good things, things that liberals approve of, and of course good things can’t be fascist by simple virtue of the fact that liberals approve of them. The major flaw in all of this is that fascism, properly understood, is not a phenomenon of the right at all. Instead, it is, and always has been, a phenomenon of the left. This fact an inconvenient truth (nothing to do with that blow-hard Al Gore) if there ever was one is obscured in our time by the equally mistaken belief that fascism and communism are opposites. In reality, they are closely related, historical competitors for the same constituents.[quote=”sprite”]Not that it matters too terribly much, but fascism has always been favored by the right and opposed by the socialist left as in World War Two. It was the leftist communist Soviet Union which brought down the rightist Nazi Germany.
The a Spanish Revolution pitted leftist socialists against right wing fascist Franco.
It sounds like you have been given a bizarre perspective of history from a right wing source…propaganda. In other words.
[/quote]The Leftists are the Socialists and fascists – which is exactly what the Nazis were: fascists of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, a.k.a. Nazis. The Left then adopted/corrupted the word “Liberal”, twisting Classical Liberalism into a pretzel: Classical liberalism is a political ideology that advocates limited government, constitutionalism, rule of law, due process, individual liberties including freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and free markets.
I wish the general public was more aware, but it’s hard enough getting most people to understand Left vs. Right.[quote=”sprite”]There are many varieties of socialism and “there is no single definition encapsulating all of them” (Wikipedia)
There is absolutely enough state involvement in labor and public health to qualify Costa Rica as, at the very least, quasi socialist.
But to call the US a socialist country is absurd. It most definitely is NOT. So for all you right wing neo capitalist/ libertarian, neo fascist neo-…whatever… out there…Costa Rica has a form of government and a way of looking at social issues which are probably in direct opposition to many of your core beliefs.[/quote]
