Posted on 02/23/2016 10:35:26 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
The main reason Socialism doesn't work and what the "Berniacs" seem to ignore is that it’s a system designed to work against human nature. Socialism is built on the theory that not only are all people created equal, but that equality must be enforced by the State. That the merits and abilities of individuals are second to the ultimate value and control of the whole. Socialists claim to work against "stratification," the idea that some people have a higher social status in society than others. Doctors, lawyers and college professors have a higher social status. Sometimes it's through pay and sometimes it's merely the esteem that's granted on the position itself. Stratification gives different levels of "status" to different positions. It's something that Socialists reject. Why should a McDonald's burger flipper make less than a physician, they argue. Both jobs require labor, both jobs are work and both jobs have value.
But this is a warped view of how society works. Stratification is a "functional necessity," as two prominent sociologists demonstrated 70 years ago. Because jobs that are the most difficult in society, or require the most training, or are the most important require a compensation higher than the rest of the population, you have a difference in status, or what's called "stratification." Socialists think that this is nonsense. They think that work and merit are meaningless when balanced against the needs of the "group."
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalistpapers.org ...
In 1976 former communist prisoner and Christian Pastor, Richard Wurmbrand, wrote a compelling book arguing that Karl Marx was a Satanist who used the Utopian idea of socialism as a ruse to plunge the world into global Satanism. Wurmbrand's book, "Was Marx a Satanist?" presented evidence that Karl Marx fully understood that human nature was at odds with Socialism. It also presented that Marx understood that it was the Judeo-Christian God that advocated free markets with "thou shalt not steal" and "thou shalt not covet". Marx used the lure of Socialism's equality as a bait-and-switch to bring the world under global Satanism. The diabolical genius of Marx continues today in Bernie Sanders, President Obama, the United Nations, and many world leaders...
Lenin was a Satanist, too. His concept of “New Soviet Man” was built on this ideal, also against human nature. It’s no surprise New Soviet Man turned out to be a drunken wifebeater who didn’t give a damn about anything.
Socialism was tried at the Jamestown colony with a communal garden as a Colony food source. However, many wouldnt work in it and left the work to those willing to do it. But, just as with socialist programs now, they wanted their fair ‘share’ of the output from those who worked regardless of no effort involved by the takers. Human nature never changes. It was quickly and wisely abandoned. Socialism was a failure from the beginning here.
Of course it will fail if implemented. History, being driven by human nature, suggests it will be implemented nonetheless.
What happens when you run out of peoples money? -ht Maggie Thatcher
Not only does socialism and statism penalize merit and achievement and reward mediocrity, it is anti-freedom, requires violation of natural rights, and is incompatible with all the rational virtues and principles required for self preservation and life proper to a rational being.
First time I heard this about Jamestown. Rush Limbaugh did a fine presentation years ago on how it was tried 13 years later in Plymouth Colony but failed.
As mentioned in related threads, and with all due respect to Sen. Sanders, low-information Sanders is an excellent example why the ill-conceived 17th Amendment should never have been ratified.
More specifically, Sanders is evidently clueless that Founding States did not give the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend for social spending programs.
In fact, regardless of PC interpretations of the Constitutions General Welfare Clause (GWC; 1.8.1), a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
From a related thread, here is an explanation why low-information federal lawmakers have been taxing and spending way beyond their constitutional authority to do so for many generations.
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Unconstitutional federal social spending went into high gear when state sovereignty-ignoring FDR was president. This is because FDRs thug justices wrongly ignored that the Constitutions GWC, which the 74th Congress used to justify programs like Social Security, was not intended to be a delegation of specific power to Congress. This observation concerning the GWC is evidenced by the excerpt from the writings of James Madison below, Madison generally regarded as the father of the Constitution.
The excerpt below is actually from the constitutionally required veto explanation (1.7.2) which Madison wrote to the House of Representatives (House) when the 14th Congress tried to use the GWC to justify its federal public works bill of 1817.
In his veto letter Madison explained that the GWC is not a delegation of specific power to Congress, but only an introductory clause for the clauses which follow it in Section 8 which are specific delegations of power.
”To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and consistent rules of interpretation, as rendering the special and careful enumeration of powers which follow the clause nugatory and improper. Such a view of the Constitution would have the effect of giving to Congress a general power of legislation instead of the defined and limited one hitherto understood to belong to them, the terms "common defense and general welfare" embracing every object and act within the purview of a legislative trust.” - Veto of federal public works bill, 1817
The post-17th Amendment ratification 74th Congress made the same mistake with the GWC when it used that clause as its excuse to establish Social Security, the 111th Congress likewise walking in the misguided footsteps of the 14th and 74th Congresss when it established unconstitutional Obamacare.
And not only did FDRs activist justices ignore Madisons clarification of the GWC when it declared Social Security to be constitutional in Helvering v. Davis, but state sovereignty-ignoring justices likewise wrongly gave the green light to unconstitutional Obamacare.
Based on the Courts clarification of Congress limited power to appropriate taxes, here is a rough approximation of how much taxpayers should be paying Congress annually to perform its Section 8-limited power duties.
Given that the plurality of clauses in Section 8 deal with defense, and given that the Department of Defense budget for 2015 was $500+ billion, I will generously round up the $500+ billion figure to $1 trillion (but probably much less) as the annual price tag of the federal government to the taxpayers.
In other words, the corrupt media, including Obama guard dog Fx Noise, should not be reporting multi-trillion dollar annual federal budgets without mentioning the Supreme Courts clarification of Congresss limited power to appropriate taxes in budget discussions.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, but also protect the states from unconstitutional federal government overreach.
Also, consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
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