If you put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig. I’m not picking on pigs so don’t send me emails. However, I am not a fan of Socialists, however you dress them up.
“New Progressives,” “Progressive Centrists,” “Progressive,” “Progressive Democrat,” it’s still lipstick on a pig. A Socialist is still a pro-government hack who believes in the redistribution of wealth (except their own), promotes welfare programs and other free stuff, believes in the nationalization of business and industry, and mostly is about people who deal in ideas, not reality.
I have a friend at work who originates from Canada. He’s always hard-timing me about how great Canada’s socialized healthcare system is. He is most vociferous during our health insurance annual open enrollment, at which time I have to announce to our employees the inevitable increase of health care premiums.
This year he got me thinking. Maybe he’s right. Maybe you can put lipstick on a pig, and enjoy a piggy-kiss. Maybe we conservatives should stop working so hard, and just sit back and enjoy all of the free stuff we already pay for.
Think about it; every level in government has Socialists fighting to give away free stuff; from our Mayor to the two Democratic Presidential candidates – they all believe in Socialism. In fact, they are trying to give us more welfare programs and “free” health care. So what am I fighting?
Socialists have a history of great ideas. Look at how well busing worked to integrate public schools. Or how lovely public housing is, and the high quality of life the residents of the HUD Section 8 high rise apartments and project housing have. And don’t forget the superior health care the socialists provide. Why pay for health insurance when for free, you can see the same doctor I see, receive the same prescriptions, and get treated in the same hospitals. Affirmative action was a great idea as well – nothing like affirmative action to boost the ole’ self-esteem of minorities and women.
The coercive power of the state does not improve the human condition. French Revolutionary Gracchus Babeuf thought that one must take by force through the power of the state to implement socialism. Babeuf came up with the idea of outlawing private property so that all could be "equal." "Liberty, equality, fraternity," said the French revolutionaries. The German Socialist Freiderich Engels came up with the idea that all private property is theft and that competition and capital leads to a concentration of wealth, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
It is fitting that Karl Marx is the most famous socialist of all. Objective biographers detail how much of a deadbeat he really was and how he spent his entire life mooching off others, like many socialists. They don’t want to work, but work at mooching for a living. Further, he had virtually no contact with, nor did he want anything to do with, the poor working-man he claimed to want to help. Does this sound at all familiar? Hillary Clinton comes to mind. And on a local level, Mayor Fargo, Councilpersons Rob Fong, and Sandy Sheedy, as well as the rest of the City Council, don’t want anything to do with the working-man they claim to want to help. It’s all for show, it’s all for votes and reelection. The majority of residents of Land Park, and Curtis Park, East Sac, The Sacramento Bee Publishers and Editorial Board, and Limousine Liberals talk about social programs, and wanting to “help” the little people, but think attending black-tie fundraisers is how it is done.
Author Joshua Muravchik (Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism) estimates that more than 100 million people were murdered in the name of socialism since 1917. Does that mean anything to these self-proclaimed socialist libs? Or do they not follow history? That would be too much work, after all.
So, it’s not just about the free stuff. Free health care, food stamps, rent, and education, all come with a hefty price. Besides losing any respect you may have had for yourself, Socialism will put you will be on par with everyone else – except for the fat-cat leaders who live exceedingly well. The “level the playing field” concept is always from a liberal. That’s why liberals tell their kids that they are all winners; no one is a loser.
Washington D.C. Court of Appeals Judge Janice Rogers Brown wrote on Socialism: “Instead of celebrating capitalism’s virtues, we offer it grudging acceptance, contemptuous tolerance, but only for its capacity to feed the insatiable maw of socialism. We do not conclude that socialism suffers from a fundamental flaw. We conclude instead that its ends are worthy of any sacrifice – including our freedom.”
Our Liberal Democrat-dominated state legislature as well as our own liberal, democrat-dominated city, is chipping away at personal responsibility, accountability, and our freedom.
Government derives its power from the consent of the governed, not the other way around. No amount of free stuff is worth losing more control and more liberty to the socialists. Pay attention city leaders. Your citizens are growing weary of your excesses.
Socialism appears to be a wonderful panacea to the naïve, to the physically and intellectually lazy… until the bodies start piling up.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
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3 comments:
Bottom line it for you.
Welfare worked to alleviate horrific poverty in our nation. I'd rather not have my neighbors starve, thanks.
Public housing is not great, but it is a hell of a lot better than slums and tenement houses that my great grandparents lived in.
Affirmative action hurt someone's feelings? Well it also has helped lift barriers in industries that may never have been lifted. The actual outcomes for people who had been discriminated against for, uh, 200 years in this country far outweigh the perceived hard feelings of some losers.
There is a reason these things came to be in every industrialized country: THEY WORK! Take a stroll through the developing world and gander at our own past. it is full of wealth and prestige, and the lowest dregs of poverty and despair living right next door. Disease is rampant for right and poor and crime and corruption rule. We can go back to that hyper-capitalism or we can be progressive. I'd rather live my American dream without your ideology dragging me back to the 1900.
No Ben, your idea of the American dream is handouts. Your neighbors are not starving, people of all skin colors and national origins can get educated and get jobs in this country - without affirmative action.
My grandparents worked themselves out of the slums, and the "developing" nations you reference are doing so because America provides so much money and human assistance to them.
You live in a bubble even though that capitalism you seem to hate, has served you well.
They're bi-polar fetishists: the State is Hated yet Loved, Total Control is Desired yet Feared, The Community-Collective is Involuntary yet Mandatory - it's a colliding dream-state of the personal and private versus public and social.
Unending Welfare creates endemic poverty, public housing is reduced to tenements like Hunter's Point, and rather than "lift" barriers Affirmative Action reduced standards and lowered expectations - and the reason so many of these things came about in the West was because of the hard Left component of vaingloriously "progressive" Euro-Socialists and their pseudo-democracies of Parentalism.
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