Obama: Just do What Works

[Newt]

Until the money runs out.

President Obama told a group of young people in Argentina not to worry about the differences between capitalism and communism and “just choose from what works.”

“So often in the past there’s been a sharp division between left and right, between capitalist and communist or socialist,” the president said Wednesday during a Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative town hall meeting in Buenos Aires. “And especially in the Americas, that’s been a big debate, right? Oh, you know, you’re a capitalist Yankee dog, and oh, you know, you’re some crazy communist that’s going to take away everybody’s property.

“And I mean, those are interesting intellectual arguments, but I think for your generation, you should be practical and just choose from what works. You don’t have to worry about whether it neatly fits into socialist theory or capitalist theory — you should just decide what works,” Mr. Obama continued. “And I said this to President Castro in Cuba. I said, look, you’ve made great progress in educating young people. Every child in Cuba gets a basic education — that’s a huge improvement from where it was. Medical care — the life expectancy of Cubans is equivalent to the United States, despite it being a very poor country, because they have access to health care. That’s a huge achievement. They should be congratulated.”

The president admitted that while those policies are working in Cuba, the economy there is still failing, “and so you have to be practical in asking yourself how can you achieve the goals of equality and inclusion, but also recognize that the market system produces a lot of wealth and goods and services.”

Mr. Obama argued that most successful economies are rooted in a market-based system, but “a market does not work by itself.”

“It has to have a social and moral and ethical and community basis, and there has to be inclusion. Otherwise it’s not stable,” he said. “And it’s up to you — whether you’re in business or in academia or the nonprofit sector, whatever you’re doing — to create new forms that are adapted to the new conditions that we live in today.”


Who would bet that Cuba will soon have an illegal immigration problem. Who believes that once Obama's Presidency expires that he will make his home in Cuba. Great medical care, all inclusion. Communism, what a wonderful system. Still driving 1950 model vehicles.

[Pine Mt Beagles]

He did give a very good speech with very good advice,

And you will probably move to Cuba before President Obama,in fact I think all Republicans should move to another Country and see how fast they can destroy it.

[bluemouse]

I sure since you think your liberal Dems do such a great job you can buy you a second home in Detroit cheap clown.

[Newt]

He did give a very good speech with very good advice,

And you will probably move to Cuba before President Obama,.

You can bet your bippy on that. The only way a liberal democrat will move to Progressive Utopia is with a government grant. They create Detroits, Cuba, and Venezuela, they don't live there. They just fly across in chartered aircraft on their way to Paris, Hawaii, and Buenos Aires.