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You aren't saying that it is not a army of unemployed because it doesn't have a general?
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Because they are not a fighting force by any stretch of the imagination.
Now, if you want to claim that you are not using the literal meaning, then your numbers go straight to hell. When most people use the loose interpretation, they generally mean an overwhelming number. <2 million isn't overwhelm ing anything. Especially when you are trying to imply that this is somehow proof that the US is in an economic collapse.
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If it is the same people in charge, why would things get worse or better?
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Because, a lot of the people in charge now ran the KGB or Soviet military units. When communism fell, they were the only ones with any real muscle and capitol (thanks to some out of country bank accounts and a black market that was made profitable by the old system).
Unfortunatly, these men were able to aquire more wealth and power, not through contributing to society like a capitalistic system dictates, but through bullying tactics and brute force. They made their own perverted form of capitalism just as they did with Marxism.
Seriously, its not capitalism that failed Russia, its the Russians.
Just look at it. How many other capitalist countries have collapsed so horribly as Russia? Then again, its not like she was on her feet prior to that.
Now, if you want a more drawn out, verbose answer, tough. I'm very curt and direct. Long posts with large words that don't actually fit the context aren't my modus operandi.
Its not that I wouldn't like to write a long, deeply researched thesis to counter every point and article you scrounge up. I was very good at it in college. Its just that with work and such taking up most of my time, I tend to just shoot from the hip and break down arguments based on logic, candid observations and Occum's Razor (did I spell that right?).
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