One recent post is pretty funny, but somewhat ironic in that the humor is not so funny, when you think about the reality of the situation. When you get a moment, read this piece called Contradictions of Socialism (I saw the future & ran away).
The six dialectical contradictions of socialism in the USSR:
* There is full employment - yet no one is working.
* No one is working - yet the factory quotas are fulfilled.
* The factory quotas are fulfilled - yet the stores have nothing to sell.
* The stores have nothing to sell - yet people got all the stuff at home.
* People got all the stuff at home - yet everyone is complaining.
* Everyone is complaining - yet the voting is always unanimous.
If you are a social progressive and fail to see the reality of this, you might want to undergo some self-reflection in a monastery for a couple of months. Maybe you could take some time to read without distraction, books that accurately describe and analyze the Soviet Union and her Eastern European Satellites.
But let's not stop there, There are more incongruencies listed. I recommend you read the entire article.
Then.....
In addition to the People's Cube piece, WitNit has one that is an excellent companion piece. He breaks this down into easy-to-understand biological terms which are not hard to follow.
Think about this: The government cannot create wealth. If it could, it would have no need for taxes.
This is a simplification, of course. (Governments can support activities that create wealth.) But the main thing to keep in mind is that politicians and bureaucrats through their taxing power consume wealth that is created by others.
This is only the tip of the iceberg, wait until you read the rest.
These two posts carefully illustrate much of why I am such a critic of socialist policies, and why I believe that socialism (as it has been presented in history) has been an overt failure as a viable socio-economic political model.
As WitNit clearly explains the parasite/host relationship, we would be wise to consider the government as the ultimate parasite, with the people they govern as the host. Socialists are seeking to reverse this completely. They want the government to be the host, and the people to be the parasites. They want to abolish the rich and work toward a classless society. (Well, lets just say two classes, government and subjects.)
Another way to broaden your thinking would be to carefully consider what Europe, Russia, China, Middle East nations, and third world countries would like to accomplish. Up until now, the US has been the host of the free world, while others have been parasites. There are enough nations that have long been envious of America and they are actively seeking to reverse the host/parasite relationship, as well. Obama is helping by sending a bumbling fool around the world to speak for the US, Madame Secretary Of State Clinton.
Reid and Pelosi are helping too. With the help of social progressives in America and abroad, the Left is doing whatever damage can be done. Meanwhile, the nation weakens little by little. It's so subtle, very few have caught onto it. They see it as change for improvement.
The globalists abroad are not particularly helpful and are seeking to destabilize us on their end, because these people really believe it is time for another entity to become the host and the US to become the parasite. We may be the last stronghold of strength, not to mention the last to be desirous of a national identity, individual rights, and a real liberty to pursue true happiness, free from unwanted and unneeded government intervention. But that hasn't stopped them.
Want to know why I rail so much against this ideology and philosophy that many believe will save people from themselves? Just read these two articles. They break it down, as good as any. They leave little else to say.
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Hello LAS and All !
When push comes to shove …
/// In his speech to a joint session of Congress late last month, President Obama said that we must begin a conversation about how to strengthen Social Security “while creating tax-free universal savings accounts for all Americans.”
The notion of a “universal” savings account is tantalizing. It suggests two possibilities: Giving everyone, no matter how large their employer, an easy way to save some money when they receive a paycheck, and eliminating the alphabet soup of 401(k)’s, I.R.A.’s, 529s and other accounts that we all have strewn about our financial lives. …/… /// http://tinyurl.com/cncm85
/// …/… The state plans to nationalise private pension funds
In fact, things have now got so bad that the state has decided to take over $29bn of the country's privately managed pension funds to get its hands on some cash. This is being presented as an emergency move to meet financing costs that have soared as commodity prices have tumbled.
In a breathtaking piece of bravado, President Cristina Kirchner said the proposal would "protect" retirees from the global financial crisis, according to Bloomberg, while denying she was trying to "grab the cash" to pay off debt or to finance new programmes or projects. Pull the other one. The last time Argentina sought to tap into workers' savings was just before that 2001 default.
For now, the funds being targeted are 'just' retirement accounts, but the entire $97bn pool of private pensions contains a lot of juicy and much-needed hard currency. Understandably, this hasn't gone down at all well in the money markets. …/… http://tinyurl.com/6am8gf
Amerloque had immediately wondered if an Argentine maneuver will be attempted by Nobama, as described above. (This has been rumored in the City of London and among certain American expatriates – guess which ones ! - for some time, by the way … Some Dems here think that pension funds should be ‘simplified’ …)
Best,
L’Amerloque
Amerloque,
If these bastards try something like this, they will rue the day they did. Remember, there is a baby-boomer generation that is quite radical when you irritate them. They will be making noise and it will seal the fate of the Democrats for decades to come.
With the help of social progressives in America and abroad, the Left is doing whatever damage can be done. Meanwhile, the nation weakens little by little. It's so subtle, very few have caught onto it. They see it as change for improvement.
Yes, I agree; there is no question the Obama team believes it is on the right track. They are committed socialists. Both Obama and Clinton are graduates of the Saul Alinsky School for Destroying America. Both individuals were trained how to take advantage of a crisis. Both understand that if you do not have a crisis, then it is a good idea to create one. So the problem here isn’t that Obama and company are committed socialists, and are therefore doing what socialists do; the problem is that Americans are so pathetically gullible that they elected Obama. And as harsh as this may sound it is nevertheless true: now the American people have to live with what they’ve done. It is clearly a self-inflicted wound.
I do think the Obama phenomena are amazing, though. Can you imagine spending so much money in a mere fifty or so days, particularly when the expenditure doesn’t do anything for our economy, or the American people? Meanwhile, Obama criticized Bush for doubling the nation’s debt—and the truth is that compared to Mr. Obama, Mr. Bush was a lightweight in the spending department. Don’t get me wrong . . . it isn’t the spending; it is the wasteful spending. And all those people out there who are the product of the American education system—you’ll be paying for this hope and change for the next ninety years. Have fun with it.
//And all those people out there who are the product of the American education system—you’ll be paying for this hope and change for the next ninety years. Have fun with it.//
They broke it, now they have to buy it.
Like the six contradictions of socialism.
The one question is why has there never been a successful socialistic government if it is so great?
Yet countries keep trying. This is Einstein's definition of insanity, "...doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"
//"...doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"//
Pretty much sums up the majority of the American psyche, doesn't it? Maybe it's a cultural thing?
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