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It Takes a Socialist Village
Townhall.com ^
| 31 May 2007
| Cal Thomas
Posted on 05/31/2007 12:49:58 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has unveiled her economic vision. Should she be given the power to implement it, we can say goodbye to the prosperity and opportunity we have enjoyed since the Reagan years.
In a speech at Manchester School of Technology in New Hampshire, Clinton said it's time to replace President Bush's "ownership society," which she called an "on your own" society, with one based on shared responsibility and prosperity.
Clinton said she prefers a "we're all in it together" society: "I believe our government can once again work for all Americans. It can promote the great American tradition of opportunity for all and special privileges for none."
Doesn't such a society already exist elsewhere? It's called socialism, where government has sought to make all things economically equal and the only equality is that all are equally poor. Wasn't defeating such a society precisely why we fought and won the Cold War? Why does Senator Clinton wish to embrace the principles of the losing side?
Clinton has merely updated the old and discredited (except among socialist dictators) Karl Marx saying: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; communism; hillary; hitlery; marines; mrsbj; rats; socialism
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To: mozarky2
"it worked with smokers."
Not exactly.
I think the smoking issue is more like the last straw. People are starting to open their eyes and think, "Whats next? My choice of car? My cooking oil? Gambling?
Time will tell.
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posted on
05/31/2007 3:28:12 AM PDT
by
WorkerbeeCitizen
(I Relieve Myself In Islam's General Direction While I Deny Global Warming.)
To: Aussie Dasher
She can’t take credit for this!!! Karl Marx should sue for plagarism.
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posted on
05/31/2007 3:39:35 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I didn't see it in my rear view mirror.)
To: Aussie Dasher
They are feeling their oats. They believe that merica loves them and they can now finally speak honestly about what they really want to do.
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posted on
05/31/2007 4:02:10 AM PDT
by
jmaroneps37
(The Islamists plan to kill us and the Democrats are helping them. Ft Dix proves it!)
To: Aussie Dasher
I’m checking out properties in and around Brisbane as I write...
And as a back up, I’m also looking between Albany and Warkworth in EnZed.
If Hillary or Hussein Obama is in, I’m out.
To: WorkerbeeCitizen
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posted on
05/31/2007 4:13:21 AM PDT
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: metesky
Thank you for the links.
Funny how history repeats itself.
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posted on
05/31/2007 4:15:42 AM PDT
by
WorkerbeeCitizen
(I Relieve Myself In Islam's General Direction While I Deny Global Warming.)
To: Aussie Dasher
Clinton's remarks came before students at a school whose purpose is to train high school kids for careers in the construction, automotive, graphic arts and other industries. She told them, "We have sent a message to our young people that if you don't go to college . . . that you're thought less of in America. We have to stop this." Many of who will most likely be of voting age come next year
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posted on
05/31/2007 4:27:53 AM PDT
by
Mo1
( http://www.gohunter08.com)
To: Aussie Dasher
Hillary hates the military and that feeling is reciprocated by that same military. It could be an interesting time for her six or seven months in the presidency.
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posted on
05/31/2007 4:29:21 AM PDT
by
sergeantdave
(Give Hillary a 50¢ coupon for Betty Crocker's devils food mix & tell her to go home and bake a cake)
To: Leisler
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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posted on
05/31/2007 4:33:30 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Aussie Dasher
hildebeast is a communist... she espouses communism with a socialist slant! komrade hildebeast is a communist party loyalist. I am surprised Cal can’t see the difference!
LLS
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posted on
05/31/2007 4:33:44 AM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
To: Aussie Dasher
Hillary is only the megaphone for this dangerous group of people among us.
If Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were alive today, they be saying, "LOCK n' LOAD!"
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posted on
05/31/2007 4:40:46 AM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: John Valentine
Bugger Brisbane! Come down to Melbourne!!!
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posted on
05/31/2007 4:51:41 AM PDT
by
Aussie Dasher
(The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
To: Aussie Dasher
This is 1984. George Bush is the Democrats Emmanuel Goldstein.
Now we know why the RATS want to rid us of the second amendment. It is the only thing standing in the way of their utopian society.
Term Limits Now!!!
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posted on
05/31/2007 5:00:22 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(If your representative will not vote for Term Limits, vote for the candidate who will.)
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posted on
05/31/2007 5:06:48 AM PDT
by
true_blue_texican
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
To: 383rr
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posted on
05/31/2007 5:11:10 AM PDT
by
383rr
(Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither- GUN CONTROL=SLAVERY)
To: oldenuff2no
Are you saying that the “Hour of the Gun” is approaching?
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posted on
05/31/2007 5:26:26 AM PDT
by
cb
To: metesky
Every Man a King
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posted on
05/31/2007 5:59:18 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: WorkerbeeCitizen
I never thought I would live long enough to see the day when a socialist campaigns on an openly socialist platform in America.
I think it was back in the 30's during the hight of the depression that the Communist/Socialists openly ran a candidate.He failed miserably largely due to the fact that an acceptable Socialist by the name of Roosevelt was already at the helm.
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posted on
05/31/2007 6:41:59 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: Aussie Dasher
Hillary: your village called. They’re missing their idiot.
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posted on
05/31/2007 6:46:04 AM PDT
by
LantzALot
(Yes, it’s my opinion. No, it’s not humble.)
To: Aussie Dasher
I’d move to Australia in a heartbeat. :) I’ve been there 3 times and love it.
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