Every economy type dictates a certain type of social mobility. Capitalism is supposed to create the greatest social mobility.

10/24/2008 4:31:51 PM

What? So if we had classical Socialist economy he couldn't have become president? It's not like he was part of the poor who rose up through hard work. He came from an upper middle class family, his mother was a 60's "hate the man" liberal anthropologists, his grandparents gave him a great education and he attended great schools, he had the advantages of being white and the advantages of not being white.

Most of our presidents have come from middle class roots, many even poorer than Obamas. (Clinton, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Eisenhower, Truman... )

Anyway, Capitalism/Free Market economics created more social mobility in conjunction with a democratic system, but it is only an improvement over past aristocratic/mercantile societies...

10/24/2008 4:47:43 PM

I have been pwnt, good sir. Back to Bonestorm.

10/24/2008 5:42:14 PM

bttt

11/5/2008 1:21:25 AM

bttt

1/20/2009 3:58:48 PM

great geography, or greatest geography?

10/11/2025 11:53:30 AM

Thanks for sharing. Too bad we now have the "enemy within"

10/11/2025 12:10:32 PM

Deep cut!

10/11/2025 12:51:26 PM

This sandwich throwing trial is hilarious

Quote :

"Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground. The officer, defense says, was given and kept "not one but two gag gifts," including a plush sandwich and a "Felony Footlong" badge on his lunchbox. "

https://bsky.app/profile/ryanjreilly.com/post/3m4vq5ckhcs24

11/5/2025 8:21:20 PM

Greatest

11/6/2025 12:50:53 AM