posted February 09, 2009 11:39 AM            

The idea of Socialism is a fraud, a con, a canard and Socialism destroys every nation which goes down that path.

Socialism is nothing more than a thirst for unbridled power by society elitists and serfdom for everyone else in that society. The idea of Socialism cannot stand even the most cursory examination...nor can the elitists who claim to be intellectually, morally and spiritually superior stand any examination. For those reasons, Socialists must shut everyone up who disagrees with them lest their intellectual, moral and spiritual inferiority be exposed for all to see.

I always have a good laugh when someone says.."What's wrong with Socialism"? Obviously, the questioner has never lived in a Socialist nation. But the answer to "What's wrong with Socialism" along with the reasons, examples and footnotes would fill every shelf in a public library; the reasons Socialism doesn't work and destroys nations and it's people are legion.

February 09, 2009
Cooking American Frogs
Otis A. Glazebrook IV

“We Are All Socialists Now” is a Newsweek article co-authored by Evan Thomas and Jon Meacham. Evan Thomas is the grandson of six-time Socialist Party of America presidential candidate Norman Thomas.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/183663/output/print

Could it be that socialism is taking a premature victory lap?

One of Norman Thomas’s more memorable quotes is:

The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under
the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist
program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without
knowing how it happened.

This, in a nutshell has been the progressive left’s blueprint for the “socialization” of America.

Many have compared this strategy to: boiling frogs. The strategy is to start the cooking process by placing the frogs (us) in cold water and slowly turning up the heat up. The complacent frogs enjoy the warmer water at first. By the time the frogs realize what has happened, it is too late. They are cooked.

Elections have consequences. The 2006 election gave the Democrats control of Congress. Both bailouts have occurred with Democrats in control of the legislative branch. Under our Constitution, the congress, not the president, passes laws and writes budgets.

Predictably the Thomas/Meacham article states:

The architect of this new era of big government? History has a sense of humor, for the man who laid the foundations for the world Obama now rules is George W. Bush, who moved to bail out the financial sector last autumn with $700 billion.

Bush brought the Age of Reagan to a close; now Obama has gone further, reversing Bill Clinton's end of big government. The story, as always, is complicated. Polls show that Americans don't trust government and still don't want big government. They do, however, want what government delivers, like health care and national defense and, now, protections from banking and housing failure. During the roughly three decades since Reagan made big government the enemy and "liberal" an epithet, government did not shrink. It grew. But the economy grew just as fast, so government as a percentage of GDP remained about the same.

Try this for a thought experiment: Could it be that G.W. Bush allowed the Democrats to throw us frogs into the already boiling pot of water? Did Bush knowingly expose the socialist strategy to an overwhelming number of Americans who will realize, in the very near future, that we are the ones being cooked?

posted February 09, 2009 12:00 PM            

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Did Bush knowingly expose the socialist strategy to an overwhelming number of Americans who will realize, in the very near future, that we are the ones being cooked?

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posted February 09, 2009 12:55 PM            

Perhaps Bush knew, that like Carter, O'Bomber was going to destroy his administration in short order with his Socialist policies, his hectoring, lecturing and posturing...and set American's teeth on edge against Socialism.

O'Bomber has made a good start already with only 37% of Americans approving of his Porkulus wasteful spending so called stimulus bill to benefit Socialist demoscats and Socialist demoscat interest groups. O'Bomber's personal approval with Americans stood at 80% immediately after he was elected. That's now fallen into the 60s approval range

posted February 09, 2009 03:49 PM            

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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

posted February 09, 2009 04:04 PM            

"God is dead!" --Nietzsche

"Nietzsche is dead!" -- God

If GOD is dead when Nietzsche was alive and vice versa...

posted February 09, 2009 04:13 PM            

Hmmm acoustic, I thought you were suggesting that Bush wasn't concerned about turning the nation over to the Socialist O'Bomber...and therefore, we shouldn't be either.

posted February 11, 2009 03:05 PM            

When this same Socialist system must depend on one capitalist nation to defend them...that can't be considered the "success" of Socialism.

When this same Socialist system must support their industries with infusions of cash from their treasuries and joint ventures between government and industry...to compete with industries in the capitalist nation...that can't be considered the "success" of Socialism.

When citizens of Socialism are pulling their own teeth because they can't get an appointment with a dentist in their Socialist system...that can't be considered the "success" of Socialism.

posted February 11, 2009 05:18 PM            

Eat more fish.

posted February 11, 2009 09:08 PM            

americans like to look at statistics and figures and tell themselves how much better off we are than anyone else. well apart from having more natural resources than most of those (much smaller) places we are not necessarily better off. even using just statistics, norway is among the top economies in the world.

they have private insurance companies in those countries, too, so pulling your own teeth is not necessary. and longevity comes from a saner lifestyle, not just eating fish. had any alligator lately?