Socialism

Posted by Kaeaea 11 years, 3 months ago to Government
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Socialism works until you run out of other people's money....short and sweet.


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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    okay... and the other 6 to 9 million who died in the camps? Car accidents?
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  • Posted by jimjamesjames 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There is nothing wrong with altruism as long as it it voluntary The problem arises when one person's altruism involves the theft of some other person's property with which to be altruistic.
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  • Posted by dcwilcox 11 years, 3 months ago
    Socialism’s advance in America continues because altruism has never been rejected. Rather, it has been embraced by our culture, such as it is. Consider all of the news stories praising the “selfless” acts of people who help others. Such acts are never associated with a person’s good will toward his fellow man who might actually say “it’s so little for me and so much for him – and he shares my values – perhaps a hand up will help him achieve the success I have.” I had several people who gave me a hand up after my turbulent teen years – and they were all “greedy” Republicans, one a prominent member of the duPont family. But, they all did it AFTER I made important progress in salvaging my own life. They knew I would achieve the success I sought and they helped me get there faster. They were not altruists.

    Socialism is the politician’s siren song. Thanks to society’s embrace of altruism, politicians appeal to our “better selves” to accept their socialist schemes. Ayn Rand noted that altruism took hold in America after the Second World War. Today, we see the devastation altruism has brought to us.
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  • Posted by hoghead44 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    As a son of Holocaust survivors the official figure is 6 million of us and 6 million gypsies and other undesirable individuals that were not Arian. However, as Zenphamy said, it is still too many. Hold on though, we might be misfortunate to experience it here
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  • Posted by RonC 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When your economic model requires that a large fraction of your population must cease to exist to afford minimum needs to the people, you have a lousy model. From the beginning of the American Progressive movement, proponents like George Bernard Shaw have admitted or even insisted that those who will not go along must be dealt with.

    They say it can't happen here, whoever they are. Even without an organized Army, when we get hungry or pressed beyond our limit, how many of our own can we kill?

    Conspiracy theorists point to those plastic coffins in Texas as a harbinger of what's coming. In the history of genocide no unwanted population has ever been laid to rest in a coffin. A trench is all the unwanted receive. Those coffins ore for the anticipated losses on the government side.
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 11 years, 3 months ago
    “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That's 6-10 million Jews. The total deaths in the camps was between 18-21 million.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Add Mao's 65 million, Stalin's 25 million, Hitler's 6 to 10 million, before you know it you're talking some big numbers.
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  • Posted by rlewellen 11 years, 3 months ago
    It limits solutions and therefore problem solving.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 11 years, 3 months ago
    And how many lose everything they have and or starve in the process?
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