otterinbham 0 Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 From CNN this morning... WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) -- A 65-year-old railwayman who fell into a coma following an accident in communist Poland regained consciousness 19 years later to find democracy and a market economy, Polish media reported on Saturday. Wheelchair-bound Jan Grzebski, whom doctors had given only two or three years to live following his 1988 accident, credited his caring wife Gertruda with his revival. "It was Gertruda that saved me, and I'll never forget it," Grzebski told news channel TVN24. "For 19 years Mrs Grzebska did the job of an experienced intensive care team, changing her comatose husband's position every hour to prevent bed-sore infections," Super Express reported Dr Boguslaw Poniatowski as saying. "When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol lines were everywhere," Grzebski told TVN24, describing his recollections of the communist system's economic collapse. "Now I see people on the streets with cell phones and there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin." Grzebski awoke to find his four children had all married and produced 11 grandchildren during his years in hospital. He said he vaguely recalled the family gatherings he was taken to while in a coma and his wife and children trying to communicate with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinCrimson 61 Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 How many Americans are Marxists? Or, better yet, Marxists with any amout of power? This is the biggest non-issue ever. Okay, we get it. Communism is bad. Got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger in Spain 0 Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 More people than you realize would like nothing more than to see the US become a pseudo-communist/socialist nation. Vote wisely, young man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
otterinbham 0 Posted June 2, 2007 Author Share Posted June 2, 2007 How many Americans are Marxists? Or, better yet, Marxists with any amout of power? This is the biggest non-issue ever. Okay, we get it. Communism is bad. Got it. Ah. You're young. A scant 20-25 years ago, I remember having vigorous discussions with classmates on the very subject. Plenty felt that Marx had the right idea, if you can actually believe that childish nonsense. Even as we speak, Michael Moore is releasing yet another "documentary," this time actually noting how much better people are off in Cuba than in the United States. He's already getting the enthusiastic head nods from the left coast. On an earlier post, I noted how Hillary is letting slip in her stump speeches how she feels the rich should pay higher taxes...Note that, in her world, the rich are anybody with a household income over 200K. For it is a critical element of her philosophy that the purpose of government is to redistribute money from the wealthy to the poor, without any concept of how that utopian scheme actually results in impoverishment of more people. And, if you had actually read my original comments, you would note that I included Keynsianism. Heck, I'll throw in Galbraith for good measure. These economists just represented a milder form of Marxism with their childlike belief in a statist economy, an idea that has been utterly discredited everywhere but in the inner sanctum of the Democratic party. So this story is a useful reminder to everybody how inefficient government is in providing material happiness, as memory fades of what a pure statist economy was like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GalensGhost 0 Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 How many Americans are Marxists? Or, better yet, Marxists with any amout of power? This is the biggest non-issue ever. Okay, we get it. Communism is bad. Got it. Uhhh... No Marxists? Hillary Edwards Barak Bo Bobba John Kerry Pretty much every national democrat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTiger 13,017 Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 How many Americans are Marxists? Or, better yet, Marxists with any amout of power? This is the biggest non-issue ever. Okay, we get it. Communism is bad. Got it. Uhhh... No Marxists? Hillary Edwards Barak Bo Bobba John Kerry Pretty much every national democrat Can you tell that Galen prefers sensationalist, no fact journalism to rational, fact-based journalism? He's a walking contradiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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