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> After all, it doesn't matter whether other countries can do it, it matters whether the US govt can do it. If they can do it, we can do it too. The reasons t
by gnaritas 17y ago
> After all, it doesn't matter whether other countries can do it, it matters whether the US govt can do it.
If they can do it, we can do it too. The reasons that we're so bad at it now are because we're doing it wrong because so many people are opposed to the very notion of socialism. But I understand your wanting them to prove it first by ramping up slowly.
- anamax 17y ago> If they can do it, we can do it too. Actually, no, not for useful values of "can do it". Consider Microsoft and Google. Microsoft has lots of smart people, but Google can do things that Microsoft can't. Yes, Microsoft is capable of doing those, but in some very real sense, it can't. It's sort of like Bill Gates' phone number. I know it in some sense (4 digits of area code, 3 digits of prefix, and then 4 more digitis), but not in any useful sense.