Posted on 04/09/2016 8:26:57 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
Last night, in a parking lot in South Carolina, a car drove by with the following message on a bumper sticker, or should it be bummer sticker:
Socialism: Because People Matter More Than Profits
When I was growing up, miscreants and mal contents used to have to hide their socialist/communist tendencies. Have we come down to this?
Please discuss this bumper sticker. I really want to know if it is now ok to be a socialist and to want to empower government to steal other,s property and productivity.
Everything elese is now out in the open. Has socialism become mainstream?
Please discuss this bumper sticker. I really want to know if it is now ok to be a socialist and to want to empower government to steal other,s property and productivity.
Everything else is now out in the open. Has socialism become mainstream?
It’s worked in North Korea and Cuba... who can argue with success?
I wish the occupants of the car could travel to North Korea to live there for a year. And, maybe carry around some protest signs there.....
>>It’s worked in North Korea and Cuba... who can argue with success?<<
Don’t forget the paradise that is Venezuela. It is a happy place. It has flowery meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children dance and laugh and play with gumdrop smiles.
What is really says:
Socialism: Because Government Matters More Than People.
The only antidote to this nonsense is to point out how suppressing the free market is what hurts people. Crony capitalism is what hurts people.
The dismal record of socialism is a matter of record and the fruits of socialism (which leads to communism) are easily pointed out.
Problem is these people have to listen. And think. A tall order for a lefty.
The insurmountable problem “redistributionists” face is that capitalism produces ALL the things they wish to “redistribute.”
Once they kill capitalism, they rapidly run out of things to “redistribute.”
Just ask that idiot running Venezuela where he gets his toilet paper.
As to the asinine bumper sticker- without profits there is no economic growth to generate the money for the people's government hand-outs. As Alvin Lee said, "Tax the rich, feed the poor, 'til there are no rich no more."
Venezuela is communism not socialism. I am teasing you but these people will actually argue there is a difference. There actually is but it is slight. the end result is largely the same.
Find them 40 hours of work, even if it’s picking cotton by hand. Pay them the minimum wage and THEN come to me with your issues. At least they’ll be too tired to kill each other or bang someone else’s wife.
Nothing new here. Socialism is a natural bu product of de industrialization. Blame the Free Traitors™. Karl Marx figured this road to socialism out 160 years ago.
As the socialists state, the only reason that socialism doesn’t work is because the wrong people are in charge. Get the right people in charge and execute the wrong subjects who object to socialism and you will, of course, have paradise.
Your nic "The_Media_never_lie" is a sarcastic reference to the exact problem.
The media steer public opinion, and they are all Liberal. None of them know how to do anything real, they are mostly the byproducts of "silver spoon" wealth, and wealthy class upbringing.
All the entertainment, and all the news, promote the message that socialism is superior.
Over the years I have come to a realization; That "socialism" is merely a vehicle to re-create the age old "Monarchy/Aristocracy" form of government.
The King always ends up being the Premier, or head of the ruling party, and the "Aristocracy" always ends up being the Party apparat.
Who are the peasants? Why that would be we fools who continue to work for a living.
Without profits, what source of funding would they have for their lifestyles?
Without profits, nobody starts a business. Without business, nobody has a job. Without jobs, nobody has an income. Without income, everyone is dependent on the government. If everyone depends on the government, call it what it is in the end.....communism.
May be a little long for a bumper sticker though....
And the dentists are always busy.
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