Posted on 01/04/2014 4:15:35 PM PST by mandaladon
The next time you wonder just how far to the left Rolling Stone magazine is, consider that in its first issue of the new year, it actually published an article calling for capitalism to be totally abolished in America and replaced with a socialist structure wherein people didn't need to work, all assets were taken over by the government, and redistributed to the masses.
Fasten your seatbelts before continuing further:
1. Guaranteed Work for Everybody
Unemployment blows. The easiest and most direct solution is for the government to guarantee that everyone who wants to contribute productively to society is able to earn a decent living in the public sector...A job guarantee that paid a living wage would anchor prices, drive up conditions for workers at megacorporations like Walmart and McDonald's, and target employment for the poor and long-term unemployed – people to whom conventional stimulus money rarely trickles all the way down...Imagine a world where people could contribute the skills that inspire them – teaching, tutoring, urban farming, cleaning up the environment, painting murals – rather than telemarketing or whatever other stupid tasks bosses need done to supplement their millions. Sounds nice, doesn't it? Sounds nice? And where would the money come from? And what would the goods and services produced by so many people requiring higher wages cost? How would people afford them?
Keep your seatbelts on, because the author has an answer:
2. Social Security for All But let's think even bigger. Because as much as unemployment blows, so do jobs. What if people didn't have to work to survive? Enter the jaw-droppingly simple idea of a universal basic income, in which the government would just add a sum sufficient for subsistence to everyone's bank account every month...
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Rolling Stone still exists? Who knew?
Speaking of how biased they are, was reading about the rock group Kansas - back when lead guitarist and songwriter Kerry Livgren got saved and became a Christian, their next album had a few songs with an evangelical theme. Not only did RS trash the album, they trashed Livgren personally, calling him “Kerry Liver”. Just goes to show, when those who (usually unwittingly) follow Satan encounter something of God, they usually respond with anger and hatred. It’s the easiest way to spot them.
Ok, let the government take away Jann Wenner’s money, take away his magazine, and turn it all over to conservative propagandists after the right-wing conservative takeover of the federal government. Isn’t that, in some ways, what they want, except for the specifics of WHO is doing the expropriation?
It’s funny how conservatives and libs want to alternately denigrate or accept bearded men in strange clothes, depending upon their beliefs? (Duck Dynasty bearded men in strange clothes versus bearded hippies in strange clothes.)
Sure, we’ll listen to Rolling Stone. After they showed their unmatchable sophistication by putting a terrorist on their cover.
Leftists also want to bury old dead white men and their wisdom and achievments.
But of course not Marx or Trotsky or Stalin or even (near-dead) Castro with his boot on the neck of millions of blacks.
That’s a screen cap from STALKER: Call of Pripyat, right?
The BEM (Booger Eating Moron) who wrote the article referred to FDR's NRA as a great idea. It did put a lot of people to work. People who were desperate to work, because they had no notion of "welfare," "food stamps," "unemployment insurance," and hundreds of other state and federal support programs, that for all intents and purposes, rewards long term joblessness.
To put it bluntly, they didn't have 60+ years of training NOT to work for their grandparents and parents. A great number of the unemployed have no will to work, work ethic, nor the patience to work hard to achieve what they want. Not all, but a high number. A few years back, an incredibly busy BBQ restaurant in Olathe, KS has to close, because they couldn't find enough employees in a city teaming with teens and twenty-somethings from middle class and affluent neighborhood. They were offering starting wages over $10/hr, and they couldn't find enough workers. They even went so far as to set up transportation, driving people from the KCMO "inner city" the 25 or so miles, each way, to the jobs, but after the first or second paycheck, they stopped working. They had to close the restaurant.
Of course the author misses the point that when someone doesn’t want to contribute to society, they will be FORCED to contribute, and not necessarily in the work of their choice, OR the location of their choice. Do they think they can just pack up and move anywhere?Sorry not allowed.
You make a very good point here. And even if they did want to pack up and move, where would they go?
Mark
So burger flippers would make the same wages as a neurosurgeon? This BEM ("Booger Eating Moron") doesn't realize that his perfect view of communism has been implemented and can be viewed quire easily, since those societies are incredibly successful. All you have to do is find a bee hive or an ant colony. These societies have a strict cast system, and their entire lives are dedicated to the hive, with no self interest.
That's where the idea of communism fails: Human Nature, and wishing to improve one's life is a part of humanity. With total equality, why would anyone sacrifice to do a really difficult job, when there's incentive. Why would medical students go through residency for years of long hours and low dollars if there's no financial incentive to do so. Which is why communist governments do all they can take away peoples' humanity. Of course, as with the insect hive, there's a strict cast system, but rather than being imposed by biology, the government imposes the cast system on the population, usually at a terrible human cost, for example, Stalin's oppression of the Ukraine, where between 4 and 10 million Ukrainians were methodically starved to death in less than 3 years, a rate even faster than Hitler's genocide against the Jews.
Mark
After many "revolutions," the people who helped tip the balance for the "new boss" are quite often "eliminated," for the simple reason that if they could help bring down a government once, what would stop them from doing it again..."
Mark
I retired at 62 years old because the actuary tables said I would get more money from the government via social security than if I waited until I was 66 and eligible for full retirement social security benefits. The government is betting that you die early.
At my income level I was paying the max to social security every year. The government actually lost money by my early retirement. If I was allowed to work full time and also draw social security at 62 years of age I would have. I know how to add and subtract, thus I retired.
That is true; but the dictator can just be mad at you too or in Hillary’s case for example think many people except her, of course, are useless.
Yo, Rolling Stone, creeping socialism has been replacing capitalism which is precisely why the economy is heading for the crapper just like every other socialist state, you friggin’ morons.
They should let the homeless live in their mansions...and by all means, share their colossal wealth...the hypocrites. I don’t even listen to “rock” anymore...it’s almost 100% classical music for me now.
The actual rolling stone magazine is only fit for catching the droppings of a parakeet.
I believe the rag should be sold with the proceeds going to the “less fortunate”. That would be just.
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