Posted on 05/04/2017 11:26:45 AM PDT by davikkm
They have been since at least 1945 when they pitched out Churchill in favor of Clement Attlee and the Communists.
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The Government wants the British people to be wards of the state. They want the public to avoid any form of “revolutionary behavior” by threatening the people with a loss of benefits. It is quite simply a case of “support us, or starve”.
In 2014/15, £258 Billion was spent on the Welfare budget; this is around 35% of the whole year’s budget. And of that figure, the Government tries to placate us by saying that 42% (£108 Billion), was spent on pensions. And who could argue with paying pensions for old people who have long paid into the system? But it is a con job. In the UK, we pay National Insurance Contributions directly from out wages (through the Pay As You Earn, PAYE Scheme) as our pension contributions. This money has been spent by the government when it should have been kept aside to actually give back to the people who have been paying in their entire life. The pension contributions are not monies to be spent on pet projects, the money has been paid in so that it can be taken out at a later date). So why is it coming from the tax budget?
The UK Government wants the British people to rely on the State for their well-being. They want them to be financially dependent on the system that ensures their own slavery. A new way of living is enquired, and the only way to achieve this is through a political revolution.
* I use the term Socialist in the title to refer to “English Socialism” as opposed to the regular definition (for a solid description, please read Orwell’s 1984 appendix)
Curiously, you may have the answer. If the “system” is irreparably broken, the sooner it can be “tagged out” and discarded, the better.
For decades already... not even close.
Socialist: one who believes in and wants to implement the ideas of Karl Marx.
Welfare programs, government banks, open borders - these things are all called for in “The Communist Manifesto”.
Blame the real problem Free Trade.
So corporate profits are sky high and half the customer base is unemployed.
Yep.
Socialism makes you soft. Once you start depending on the government for your needs, you lose the desire to better yourself because it ceases to be a necessity.
Socialism ruins the individual and therefore ruins civilization.
Marx promoted Free Trade also.
I thought Britain was a Social-Sharia country.
WOW! Britain is already a socialist country? How long have you been sitting on this information?
Socialism and communism can only grow in fertile ground. Free Trade and de industrialization were and still are great fertilizers.
Give me the exact quote and where I can find it.
Because I’m pretty sure he didn’t.
Marx hated Capitalism. He actually says in ‘The Communist Manifesto’ that one of his goals was to destroy it.
-- Karl Marx
Have you actually read "Atlas Shrugged" or do you just think like a Randian hero? ;^)
LOL. I actually read it twice. The whole thing. Because I forgot what a bore the last 400 pages are. And watched the movie. Both parts. The movie, at least, was not boring for the last half.
I like Rand in spite of her atheism or agnosticism or whatever. I think she may have been smart enough to realize that economics cannot address spiritual matters. How we behave is all that is important and why we behave in a certain way is so personal, so subjective, it can’t be quantized. Since it can’t be quantized it has to be ignored. For those of us with Faith we understand it to be the foundation of our acts but for those without it is like trying to explain “Red” to a blind man. It is why she called it “Objectivism”.
Simple, yet powerful statement why socialism is deadly for civilization. Thanks.
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