http://www.sovietstory.com/

Ahh… these youngsters …

http://www.spike.com/video/der-fuehrers-face/2722387

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08akOt2kuo

I think it’s not really due to any ill motive, but it’s just the human tendency towards the comic. If you constantly remembered and held all the crimes of Communism, you probably wouldn’t get out of bed in the morning. Humor is a release valve for dealing with tragedy.

And I just do not understand why you all continue to ignore the fact that the GOP screwed up not because of conservative principles, but because it abandonded those same principles. Yes, there were Republicans running the fiscal show, but they were not conservatives. I am a conservative, not a party man. So, in essence, you are absolutely right. And the GOP deserved the trouncing they got.

China whose history goes back thousands of years (and in which Mao was only a blip really in this context) is and always has been a great nation. And Mao was and always will be a mass murderer.
And Rbottoms…you are assuming that the shirt was made in China #1. And #2 what exactly is your point? (You don’t know yourself even do you?)

“Communism Killed 100 Million People And I Bought This Stupid T-Shirt Courtesy Chinese Communists Slave Labor At Walmart.”

“IFC…to me the unthinking man’s solution is. Hmm deficit? Raise taxes. Bigger deficit? Raise taxes more. Knee–JERK.”

……Why don’t you lay out a few buck on the conservative economist Bruce Bartlett’s book and he’ll explain it to you:

http://capitalgainsandgames.com/blog/bruce-bartlett/1168/supply-side-economics-rip

“(I know efficiency is a hard concept for liberals to understand so I forgive you).”

………You’d never think we’d just had eight years of one of the most incompetent and inefficient govt’s in US history……..and it was Republican

“First of all. It was Obama’s own communications director and also Ron Bloom, one of his many “czars” who stated that they “admired” and “agreed with” respectively Mao Tse-tung.”

……..So why did President Nixon laud the guy to the skies…….your world view has all the sophistication of a 13 year old………for better or worse he’s the founder of modern China which is currently kicking our ass.

…….One wonders why Richard Nixon made nice with him……..you are so juvenile

The one thing that must be understood about entitlements is that they are still a net positive when calculating budget deficit (a fact that irks the ever lovin’ s*** out of me). Take George W’s annual deficits and add about $300 billion of Social Security surpluses per year to them to get a more accurate budget accounting.

So cutting Social Security is just diverting more payroll taxes to the general fund, while putting off repayment for a couple of decades. I say that this is NOT conservative, but rather a game of “Hide the Deficit”.

I’ve also read multiple viewpoints that Social Security is not really in that much trouble. Small adjustments like raising the tax cap, increasing the tax rate marginally, indexing smaller annual benefit increases more closely to CPI, etc. would handle most of it without crushing anybody. Even if none of that was implemented, it is projected that 2/3 of benefits could be paid just from payroll taxes in the future, without dipping into the IOUs we’ve built up. Projections also depend upon dropping population growth. Business won’t let that happen. When they need workers and can’t find them, they’ll be screaming for increased immigration.

Medicare, on the other hand, IS running a deficit today and that will increase. It needs to be tackled now, probably from both from the expense side and the tax side.