Posted on 02/25/2019 11:00:35 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Yes, we know what it does. How do we stop it? Dictatorship?
Bernie just wants a yacht to go with his three houses.
How is socialism enforced? By dictatorship.
The remedy is to create a high demand market for Socialist Ratatouille that we can sell to the starving North Koreans./S
“Breadline Bernie.” The nickname writes itself.
Cue Dennis Moore.......
Halt! Halt!
Gentlemen, ladies, bring out your valuables please. Come along sir, come along. Come along, madam, come along. Oh, is that all you’ve got ... well, he’s got much more than you ... so you’d better have some of his ... (transfers money from one passenger to another, dropping some)... sorry... pick them up in a moment... there’s about oh, what, nine down there... so you must have about... oh, he’s still got lots... oh you’ve got what? ... you’ve got more than he started with... so if I give you some of those (transferring more coins) ... well now, look ... have you got a bit of jewelry? If I give you that one and you have some of his coins ... is that another box? Were you trying to hide it? Well, that’s nice! Right! Now. I’ve got a tiara ... you’ve got one... you’ve got one of the boxes... you’ve got one... anyone else got a tiara? Take your hat off! (passenger does so to reveal a tiara)... Oh, honestly, it’s absolutely pointless trying to do this if you’re going to cheat. It really is awful of you;..
Socialism is envy disguised as altruism.
The title is not helpful.
All taxation could be said to take bread out of the mouths of those that earned it. But that’s not all bad, since government provides and enforces the rules of the marketplace, provides protection, implements societal programs deemed necessary by our representatives. All of which could be said to provide the enviornment in which that bread can be earned.
Socialism doesn’t just take bread out of the mouth of the earners, it takes control of the bread making process and gives it to government. Which inevitably makes the bread producing process excessively bureacratic, reducing or eliminating the incentive to produce bread efficiently and stifling innovation.
Thus socialism reduces the amount of bread made. And then takes much more of the bread that is made out of the mouth of the earners to support the huge government required.
My Son actually learned the truth about socialism.....
In a college class.
He had to do a group project.
I asked him how it went. He said,
I worked my ass off while the other three people did a lot of talking but no work.
I asked him about the grades. He said,
We all got As
Now you understand socialism, I said. One person busts his behind because hes worried while three people sit around doing nothing. Did those other three learn anything?
No.
But the party official, the professor, was paid some big bucks wasnt he?
Yeah.
So you got screwed, three people did nothing, and the party official got big bucks for keeping all of you in line. Thats socialism for you.
LOL..that’s great.
It certainly is promoted by envy & resentment: Blame & Envy Cocktail.
But, while its promoters may claim to be altruistic; they are the exact opposite of what they claim:
Nothing could be more destructive of a healthy social order.
Breadline Bernie on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJBjjP8WSbc
+1.
Unfortunately for our current high school students who tend to be misinformed, the author understates the issue:
Socialist Democrats, like their Russian counterparts, want to take the bread from the mouths of those who earned it and use it for their own gain. The masses will be left standing in bread lines...
The author could have been more informative:
In Russia masses not only stood in breadlines, masses by the millions mostly in its farming industry, were intentionally starved to death in order to feed the larger population. Stalin brutally reduced the number of mouths to feed while greatly reducing certain disfavored ethnic groups.
SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
The State forces you to give one to your neighbor, shoots the neighbor and forces you to milk them both, giving all milk back to the state.
The State gives you a cup of sour milk.
MARXISM
You have two cows.
The government takes both and shoots you.
COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you nothing.
They shoot your family and put you in a gulag.
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, promises more free cows, lets you vote and gives you sour milk.
FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.
NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots your wife and kids.
BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away.
GUAMISM
You have two cows.
You never milk them, they just eat the grass, so you dont have to mow the lawn.
You live on welfare and get food stamps, so you dont need the milk. (H/T Fai Mao)
LBJ GREAT SOCIETISM
You have two cows.
The president realizes that neighbor wants their own cow, slaughters your calf every year preventing you from having a cow to sell.
The president takes the slaughtered cow and turns it into hamburger, has a cook-out so neighbor stops trying to own a cow themselves.
The neighbor spends next 50 years going to presidents cook out and never gets his own cow. (H/T PCPOET7)
LAISSEZ-FAIRE CAPITALISM
You have two cows. So what? (H/T Celtic Conservative)
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.
CONTEMPORARY WALL STREETISM
You have two cows.
You sell one, bundle the other with a goat, a mule, and two dry cows.
You pile into the derivatives market, buy a Gulfstream and when it all comes down around your ears...
You go to the government for a bailout.
“...How do we stop it?...”
That’s easy.
By introducing each one of them advocating it and attempting to enforce it to their own up close and personal Ceacescu Protocol moment.
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Taxation is legal forced confiscation, no matter how good the intention.
Try not paying taxes.
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