They sell all the right ideas: equality, health, and peace.
Sounds good to me.
What they mean, however, is “let the state worry about these issues."
Exactly, unless every individual is expected to become a country onto themselves. Bring produce home from the market and run tests on bacteria and chemical additives? Take diplomatic trips to foreign countries?
Of course the State is to look after those things.
You are to simply be a worker and contributor to the state.”
You are to contribute to the common good as others do. Change employers, open your own business, sell your body......just contribute.
To them,” equality” really means that you may not have more than your neighbor has,…..
Ah, the same old, tired nonsense.
An ill individual does not want a private room. They want a hospital bed. They do not want private nurses. They just want a nurse, any nurse. Nobody is asking for nor expecting the same as the wealthy. They are asking for and expecting the minimum a civilized society should offer.
…. “health” means that the state will determine what kind of medical attention you need (after all, they are paying for it),….
As opposed to insurance companies NOT determining what medical procedures will be allowed? Obviously the author missed last night’s “48 Hours”.
If the choice is between a government bureaucrat or a company bureaucrat deciding on what medical care will be given and the company bureaucrat will get a bonus and stock options, due to the company saving money if medical care is denied, who would you prefer to have making the decision? (That is not a trick question.)
….. and “peace” will be yours as long as you do as they say.
Gee, what a profound statement…NOT! As opposed to people now being permitted to do whatever they want? Considering the current prison population the author shouldn’t be talking.
The socialist “Think Tank” works well. They have successfully taken control of the Democratic Party and have changed its goals. They make promises to the masses for universal health-care and free welfare programs paid for by the hard working citizens whom they say “owe them” a free ride.
Free ride? Like people doing all sorts of crazy things hoping to break a leg so they can enjoy the “free ride” of medical care? People quitting their jobs and selling all their belongings so they can enjoy the coveted lifestyle of welfare?
The author must know some unusual people.
Of course, any letter such as this wouldn’t be complete without the mandatory “I have worked hard all my life.” Sort of a variation on the “Hard earned money” slogan.
Considering most people deal with others within their community how is it possible everyone suffers from hard earned money syndrome? The gas station owner buys his groceries from the local grocer and rents videos from the local video store. The local grocer buys gas from the gas station owner and rents videos from the local video store. Finally, the video store owner buys gas from the local station and groceries from the local grocer.
So, whose money is harder earned? Of course, the answer is the expression “hard earned money” is nothing but a brainwashing phrase. In order to justify not helping the less fortunate what better way than to instill the idea everyone is suffering? After all, we can’t expect people to share what they have scratched and scraped for, can we? The guy with the big house, the three cars and a boat at the marina is struggling the same as the single mother who is trying to find enough money to buy decent food for her children. His life is a struggle, as well. Or so we are to believe.
As for the author’s statement, “Today, Socialists who call themselves “Social Democrats” now control all of Europe. Do you ever wonder where all those National Socialists (Nazis) and SS men went?”
The kindest thing I can say about such ideas/implications is they are the musings brought on by senility.
While I’m sure the author has a history lesson worth telling he draws the wrong conclusion due to avoiding the big picture. When societies become unbalanced to such a degree that people like Wendell Potter fly on private jets, eating off gold rimmed plates, travel the country promoting insurance companies like Cigna while a young lady is denied a claim for a liver transplant until she passes beyond the critical point and then the claim is approved hours before her death, before the transplant can take place, violence and mayhem is a distinct possibility.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/profile.html
The French revolution was not due to people wanting to live in a castle, to have the same things as their “neighbour”. It was not about a classless society. It was not about everyone being equal.
It was about survival! It was about people dying and certain members of society not giving a damn.
Socialism, as a form of government, could be stopped immediately if the present system was fair. But as many either refuse to understand or are incapable of understanding, such as the author, the injustice continues until a drastic change takes place. Anarchy. Revolution. Socialism.
It doesn’t have to come to that but we know how long the medical care debate has gone on. More than 50 years. Now the general public is becoming aware of the senseless deaths. Deaths, like the fire fighter in Pembroke Pines, Florida, which was aired on 48 hours last night. He had a great medical plan, or so he thought, until he died due to lack of treatment.
Socialism. Government control. It's brought on by the very people who strenuously oppose it and the more access people have to information the quicker the change will happen.
It is the opponents who need to open their eyes.
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I posted this a few months back Bravo. I know this man and he said the same damned thing after WWII. He was in a concentration camp after the war. Here is what he wrote.
Originally Posted by Ice Dancer
A friend of mine's father is the author:
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I immigrated to America 45 years ago. Born in Bavaria, Germany in 1928, I was subject to Hitler’s National Socialistic education system as I grew up. My father was a farmer when the Gestapo arrested him in 1942. He was not Jewish but anti-Nazi. He suffered for three years in the concentration camp of Dachau and barely survived it. Fortunately, the American army rescued him in 1945. My fate was much different but equally as evil. At the age of 16, I was forced by those Nationalistic Socialists (Nazi’s) to fight a war I didn’t understand. I survived that war and two additional years as a POW in a Gulag in Siberia. During that time, I lived under Communism in Russia and was forced to attend regular socialistic brainwashing classes. The Communists tried to recruit young boys like me to become part of what they called “The Peoples Movement.” I will never forget the day a KGB man told us that in the next millennium we would have “world wide socialism”. He declared that communism and National Socialism do not work because these systems will always have other nations as an enemy. That is why he stated that we must have “global unity”, the only way to solve the problems of humanity. He declared that Socialists would infiltrate the capitalist countries through their news media, entertainment industries, educational system, and legal system. He predicted that all it will take is a few generations. My thought was “Hitler all over again!”
He said these things in 1947. I did not believe it could happen then, but with the way of the world today and the attitudes that are prevailing right here in America, I submit that these Socialists have indeed infiltrated America. There is a talk radio host that calls them the “enemy within” and I could not agree more.
When I use the term “enemy of our freedom”, I mean the approaching world socialism or “global unity” as its proponents call it now. This worldwide movement is the result of Socialists and former Communists and National Socialists (left over Nazis) who are working together towards world socialism. The largest obstacle has been the West and America in particular. With its free system of capitalism and rule as a Democratic Republic, it has remained too powerful for complete domination. In a true Democratic Republic, the government is dependent on its citizens. In socialism, people are dependent on their government. I know. I have lived both.
Previous to, but most obviously after the end of WWII, these “World Socialists” have succeeded in infiltrating capitalist nations and in so doing they have changed the governments of most European countries. They have also succeeded in many other nations around the globe such as China, South Africa, and North Korea. To a lesser degree, they have also affected America. Here, they do not call themselves Socialists because that might scare some people in this country. Instead, they call themselves “Liberals” and their movement “The New World Order”. While most Americans are comfortable with the term “Liberal”, my intimate familiarity with their language declares them to be World Socialists!
They sell all the right ideas: equality, health, and peace. What they mean, however, is “let the state worry about these issues. You are to simply be a worker and contributor to the state.” To them,” equality” really means that you may not have more than your neighbor has, “health” means that the state will determine what kind of medical attention you need (after all, they are paying for it), and “peace” will be yours as long as you do as they say. Is this freedom? No! This is slavery! Can they sell this type of propaganda to us in the open? No again! They must infiltrate and change the way our young people think. They must encourage our youth to challenge their cultural heritage, causing unrest and rebellion to the status quo of our nation’s morals and standards. They are succeeding, but we do not have to let them continue in their success. Our Constitution provides the weapons to stop them. Behind many that lead this movement is a deep contempt for America and her free system. They believe that Capitalism is the evil responsible for all wars and famine, and yet their own history of corruption and brutality that has been the cause of numerous wars, murder, suffering, and famines seems to escape them. If we had a news media that would have treated President Roosevelt the way we allow our media to treat President Bush, we would all be speaking German today and goose-stepping to Hitler and his successors. I am not asking that we gag the press, but as a people we should stop tolerating their sensationalizing and slanting of information and insist they simply report the news and let us make up our own minds! Of course, that is exactly what the socialists don’t want. They despise a free-minded, self-governing people who refuse to be recipients of their propaganda machines.
Many politicians today are not truly our representatives, but men and women with a Socialist agenda who are dictating what is “good” for the people instead of the other way around. The Socialists are trying more than ever to pitch their sell of a “better world” and are abusing our own democratic system to that end. The socialist “Think Tank” works well. They have successfully taken control of the Democratic Party and have changed its goals. They make promises to the masses for universal health-care and free welfare programs paid for by the hard working citizens whom they say “owe them” a free ride. Trust me, Socialists have never cared about the individual and history proves this point. It has always been the Democratic free systems (capitalist) of private ownership which has truly improved people’s lives. Today, when you listen to these Socialists (Liberals), they sound like they are the only true Democrats while everyone else is “Right Wing” or “Extremist.” This results from having learned well from their past failures and their skill in using language and emotion to sway the people.
I am often dismayed at how lethargic many Americans seem to be about what is going on, but then I remember that most Americans have not lived the real Socialist dream and like frogs being slowly boiled alive, the realization may come too late.
Many of these Global Socialists are also atheists and are convinced that to realize their goal of world socialism they must accomplish these changes:
1. Abolishment of all religions and cultures that are not in alignment with a socialistic world order. They think that religion and certain cultures are a “dumbing down of the people”. They believe that it keeps people in the dark ages and interferes with modernism. They contend that the best way to abolish religion is to incite wars between them. Consider the support that Islam is receiving from the Socialists at this time. Odd, to say the least, since Islam is dogmatically the most anti-socialistic religion of them all. 2. Removal of patriotism. The abolishment of American patriotism in particular is very important to the Globalists. They begin by labeling patriotic Americans as “extremists and inhumane capitalists” and go on to tell us that patriotism is counter-productive to world peace. They will hide the fact that their system has a Fascist component. That will be revealed when they force us to bow and scrape to their one-world order, or else! 3. Create a relative morality where the ideas of commitment and family are re-defined. In their system, there are no moral absolutes. After all, if God is dead, then who has the right to impinge a moral standard? The Liberals of infiltrated Hollywood have for years pushed an amoral standard and our youth and society are paying the price! 4. A classless society. To accomplish this, Socialists are working both sides of the aisle. They are telling the poor and often minority races that they are “entitled” to the wealth of the predominantly rich white because they have kept them in slavery. The more affluent who have worked hard and earned their money are being told to feel guilt for their “greediness” and that they must share the fruits of their labor with the poor. How many times have brutal revolutions been fed this meal so that those seeking to usurp the wealthy could employ the downtrodden to do their dirty work in order to then dominate the very poor they claimed to care about? Russia, France, and Italy are examples, and may we never forget how Hitler used the wealth of the Jews to incite their slaughter!
No, I am not an activist of any kind or a right-wing extremist as the Liberals call it. All I hope for is an America that remains sovereign and free for future generations. I am merely an old man, and maybe I don’t know how to communicate my experiences in a convincing way, but believe me, putting a picture of an American flag in the back of your car window is not enough. We need to vote responsibly and show our love of country. We need to vote for people who defend our constitution, and not interpret it for their own agendas.
I escaped Siberia in 1947 at the age of 19 and walked over 5000 miles through many countries including Iran and Iraq. I met poor Moslems in Kurdistan. They were not anti-Christian then, and they saved my life. I walked for a year to get home, hungering for a freedom that helped sustain me in prison, a freedom I could no longer find in my homeland. Today, Socialists who call themselves “Social Democrats” now control all of Europe. Do you ever wonder where all those National Socialists (Nazis) and SS men went?
I immigrated to America in 1959 because it was the only country in the world that had a constitution guaranteeing the freedom of an "individual”. I have worked hard all my life. I became a patriotic American citizen in 1965 and have lived the American Dream. I raise my flag every day out of love and respect for this great nation, gave up my native tongue for English and will forever defend the capitalist system of free enterprise through hard work! Our American constitution is a treasure worth fighting to defend. American patriotism is not just a mere fancy to those of us who have seen and lived the hopeless ideals of socialism, or lost a loved one because of it. Socialism, and its cousins Communism and Fascism, will always fail to deliver because they depend on the state instead of the individual. Ultimately, this leads the state to impose its will, even by force, upon the will of the individual.
Thomas Jefferson said “no other country could destroy America; it can only be done from within”. I say “This country has been successful and free for more than 200 years, let’s keep it that way”.
G.F.X.
