Posted on 09/19/2016 7:53:40 PM PDT by MtnClimber
“[T]he government has to take resources from someone before it can dole them out to others. This act of taking destroys an economy. The more you take from the productive members of society, the less productive they become. That’s the primary lesson of the history of socialism.”
The above quote is from Porter Stansberry – from his book, America 2020: The Survival Blueprint. It states a concept I’ve described for years, but Porter states it more succinctly than I ever have. In particular, it negates the argument by many “progressives” that, even if they don’t recommend full-on socialism, they believe in getting “just the right mix” of socialism and capitalism to create the ideal system.
Unfortunately, as viable as this concept may sound, even moderate socialistic national policies result in moderate deterioration of the system. It’s not unlike being “just a little” addicted to heroin.
It may be argued that, “That’s different. With heroin, the addict will always end up wanting more and he’ll become even more dependent.” Exactly so – and that’s unquestionably true for socialism as well. Once the concept of “free stuff” is part of a nation’s governing system, the desire for morefree stuff will inexorably rise.
And, of course, historically, we have seen that governments always step up to the plate whenever the demand for more free stuff is suggested. But why should this be so? Wouldn’t a more conservative government be less likely to proffer entitlements than a more liberal government?
To believe this is to misunderstand the very nature of governance. Those who are governed like to believe that their government exists to serve them, and all political leaders are quick to encourage this perception. However, amongst themselves, political leaders fully understand that they exist primarily to feed off of and dominate the electorate.
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This is why we call politicians parasites. They are like having a 50 pound tick attached to your jugular vein.
"Socialism is like a zombie. If you kill it, it always comes back to life."
No it’s not. This will break down and fall apart, in a very ugly manor. Next year pension’s will be one of the major crises . Obama tried to get these, but could not get through state barriers. Trillions in pensions, most if not all state or local pensions will fail. Private pensions inside of the US will be seized, may take a couple of years.
States cannot go bankrupt, thus they will default, just like in the early to mid 1800’s.
The Gov will continue to add excessive taxes and fees to businesses and citizens, creating more dissent.
Social security, Medicare and a whole lot of other programs are soon to be broke. Everyone believed the socialist fairy tale, while the politicians spent all the money.
Our government is and has been preparing to go to war with its citizens, stupid at best. This will destroy confidence in any Federal government that the country will break apart in a non-pretty manor. Same thing happened with Rome. Socialism was cast out after this as a complete failure.
We need to turn this around pronto.
Is there anyone who will? (Very few.)
Just the right mix of socialism and capitalism?
Big business subsumed by big government.
IOW, fascism.
Doesn’t matter if 100% of a nation’s voters vote for socialism. It is an unsustainable social organizing system which always fails. Always.
Until such time as the root basics of human nature change, it will never work.
bmp
“Private pensions inside of the US will be seized, may take a couple of years.”
Private pensions are hooked into stocks and bonds and other assets. How do you seize these pensions without crashing the bond and stock markets? Banks, brokerages, insurance companies and hedge funds would probably also collapse. Do you think the uber wealthy would stand for that?
The Fed Gov gets to print money, but states and local jurisdictions do not.
Cities, counties are currently watching their pension fund obligations come up short, and at some future time will need to either ask tax payers for more taxes to support retired workers, or to cut the pensions.
In California many govt. workers retire in their early 50s with nearly full pay, medical insurance, etc.
Private sector workers never retire, so public sector workers retire by age 55.
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