So sad that many on this tour would side with the Ceaușescu side of the argument.
Freedom costs a buck-oh-five.
Today, Bucharest’s streets were gridlocked thanks to an enormous protest by a mass of labor unions. They were protesting government austerity measures related to the national government’s cutting back on the handing out of free stuff.
Thanks, I follow him on X but hadn’t seen that.
If you are on X FReepers, follow @CynicalPublius. He’s good stuff, writes well.
It's a good truth to incorporate in one's mind, but very, very few have done so.
This author still seems to be grappling with it, "Do they really not understand?" he asks.
Yes, they DO understand. They are Communists.
Why? Because for the very rich and connected, Communism is better: more exclusive, better perks, more serfs kissing your butt.
More doing stuff that other people will never get to do.
My wife and I were in Romania for about a month in 1991 while the country was still dark, drab and deprived after the communism years. I was an Army Officer stationed in Germany and we were there to adopt a child. They were so proud of getting rid of their dictators (Elana especially) and loved talking about and showing us revolution stories and sites. Ronald Reagan was their hero at the time and the end of the Soviet Union about that same time was like a dream come true for them. Now we see signs of it returning not in Russia but here at home and we have to wonder how Americans can be so stupid. All we can do if remember to make our voices heard and never miss a vote. Stand up and be counted.
Thank you for tihs wonderful admonition story.
Let me add this to it, a speech by Samuel Adams made on August 1st 1776 at the Philadelphia State House:
” If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. “
I read where two-thirds of a group of people said they would not fight for America. To me, that is the result of the rot in the American education system. They are taught by Leftist that America is bad. If that’s the case, ask those Leftists why there are millions of people risking everything to get into America. If it’s that bad, perhaps those Leftists should leave.