Posts Tagged ‘Socialism’
(From Bear Witness)
By Juan F. Garcia MD
I am motivated to write this document early in the communist takeover of my country so I won’t have the same regrets that I had in my old country, Cuba, 50 years ago by not explaining to my friends what the big Communist plan was all about.
I decided to write this after I had a conversation with a great, old friend of mine born and raised in the USA.
When I told my friend that we were moving fast into communism, he laughed his head off telling me that this was impossible. I think it is worth mentioning that this friend of mine is a well educated, intelligent member of our society which I always admire.
(From Conservative Crusader)
by: Nancy Morgan
When a word comes too close to actually identifying an inconvenient reality, secular progressives spring into action. The offending word is either redefined or reduced its first letter, thereby signifying that polite society will no longer accept it. You’ve heard of the N word, the B word (think Hillary) and now comes the S word.
By its abbreviation, the S word, formerly known as socialism, infers a negative connotation. A negative connotation richly deserved due to the incontrovertible fact that socialism has failed every where it has been tried.
In a nutshell, socialism is an economic system where property is held in common, not individually, and its ideal is a centrally directed economy. Socialism entails the substitution of group decision making for individual choice. In this case, the ‘group’ making the decisions are the 32 (and counting) unelected and unaccountable czars Obama is anointing.
(From American Thinker)
By Bruce Walker
The slow, ugly death of health care reform reflects the left’s deep crush with crises. Government, of course, is a necessary evil. Even Marxists dream of a distant future in which the state will “whither away.” Global Warming is a crisis, even though there is a profound disagreement among scientists about which direction the climate is changing and whether people can have any significant impact upon any change that is taking place.
Periodically we are informed that there is an infrastructure crisis — roads, bridges, water lines, school buildings, etc. are wearing out because they are getting older. The largely mythical “Hunger in America” in the 1960s was a crisis which produced the Food Stamp Program, and now — with a straight face! — Leftists’ planners warn us that obesity is the most serious health problem of the poor. Monumental levels of government “stimulus” spending was supposed to end the economic crisis (which could never — of course — be the consequent of monumental levels of government spending in the first place!) And now, of course, we face (whether we are deemed “smart” enough to see it or not) a health care crisis.
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class.
That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”.
All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.
As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
Could it be any simpler than that ??
(Please pass this on.)
NOTE: This was emailed by Scott on behalf of Tip of Texas Tea Party.
