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Why are Americans becoming Americommunisms?

Has Obama fooled them so much they can't see it?

Update:

Bigvossman is correct. He who does not remember history, is doomed to live it again. When parents do not teach their children the truth, then everything falls down. Good bye America until parents start to teach the American way again.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    I guess since most people do not know American history they are doomed to repeat the lesson of Jamestown

    As Carole E Scott wrote in her book (America's Colonial Period) “Initially, in Virginia and Massachusetts, communist-like systems were installed, however, they were soon abandoned. Single men objected to working to support the families of married men. Married women objected to working to support other women's children. Because the opportunity to own land was a way to attract immigrants, who were hard to attract, the abandonment of communal economic systems probably increased immigration.”

    Both colonies were communal in nature during their first few years. Because of lack of productivity among those who could live off the hard work of others. William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth wrote in his journal:

    "For this community (so far as it was) was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without [being paid] that was thought injustice.”

    Both Plymouth and Jamestown soon turned away from a socialist form of government, dividing land up among residents, each being responsible for their own survival, as well as that of their family. The result was immediate and impressive.

    “This [free enterprise] had very good success, for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.” (William Bradford’s Journal).

  • Syd
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    I think your made up word should be Americommunists.

    and, no. America is probably the most rabidly capitalist country in the world. Other nations take trade and markets as a fact of life, yanks worship it. They think it's the answer to everything.

  • 9 years ago

    Obama is a right-wing political operative who has done everything his gangster-capitalist benefactors have asked and more -- from trillions in bankster bailouts to imperialist wars to tax cuts for the super-rich to attacking workers' wages, etc. The capitalist financial markets have responded with glee, rising almost 100% since Obama took the reins of power. Corporate profits are at record levels. So where's the communism?

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    It is because they do not worship Allah and burn holy books of Allah! His excellency Barrack Obama was chosen by Allah to punish Americans for blasphemy!

    Source(s): Allah
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  • 9 years ago

    We aren't. America is never going to become communist despite what brainwashed idiots like you think.

  • 9 years ago

    Na, we want to be socialists

  • 9 years ago

    Our English teachers have failed us again.

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