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Socialism is really cannibalism
American Thinker ^ | April 18, 2009 | Carol Negro

Posted on 04/18/2009 2:00:04 PM PDT by george76

Apparently in our current political climate "socialism" has become a word that does not convey the horror it actually represents. It has become common and thus meaningless beyond the virtuous idea of "sharing" and "taking care of the poor".

People, especially among the ignorant -- particularly the college educated -- seem proud to call themselves "Socialists" today. And the supremely ignorant -- our politicians -- go a step further, and celebrate the word "Progressive" as though it had a glorious and honorable history.

I refuse to allow "Socialism" and "Progressivism" to be understood as benign, helpful, caring, sharing- as another way of saying "The Brotherhood of Man".

Socialism and Progressivism are cannibalism.

When I work, I use up hours of my life... my limited, mortal, human, physical life. The money I am paid represents the life I expended to earn it. My pay-my wealth-is my labor. It is the expenditure of some of my body's short, precious life on earth.

So when someone takes my money, they steal my hours of labor. They consume not only the fruits of my labor, but my labor itself, that labor which is the very expenditure of my life.

When someone loots and consumes the money I have earned, they consume the part of my life devoted to producing what they have taken.

What is that but cannibalism? A selfishness so profound, so inhuman, so greedy, so barbaric that it encourages and celebrates-and seeks to legally require- the consuming of the life's blood of one human by another.

That is the vicious reality of Socialism.

Don't let the bastards call it anything else.


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KEYWORDS: cannibalism; carolnegro; progressivism; socialism
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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is im-possible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and jus-tice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.

A regulation which obliges all those of the same trade in a particular town to enter their names and places of abode in a public register, facilitates such assemblies...

A regulation which enables those of the same trade to tax themselves in order to provide for their poor, their sick, their widows, and orphans, by giving them a common interest to manage, renders such assemblies necessary.

An incorporation not only renders them necessary, but makes the act of the majority binding upon the whole. The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter X


21 posted on 04/19/2009 7:21:52 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The conceit of journalistic objectivity is profoundly subversive of democratic principle.)
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To: ChicagahAl
250,000 "right-wing extremist, redneck racists", who attended the Tea Parties on April 15th.
Pajamas Media puts participation at more than 623,000 while World Net Daily estimates 1 million Americans participated in at least 1,000 tea parties
22 posted on 04/19/2009 9:06:24 AM PDT by Milhous (Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.)
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One more thing regarding "racist" and "right wing" canards hurled at tea parties. "My" tea party included "people of color", a self identified liberal Democrat speaker, and another speaker irked at Obama for breaking his campaign promise to bring the troops home from Iraq. (Tea party organizers hosted an open microphone and issued an invitation to the crowd of 1,000 for people to come up and speak their mind.)
23 posted on 04/19/2009 9:11:41 AM PDT by Milhous (Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion; george76

Great thread and posts! Thanks for the ping, cIc.


24 posted on 04/19/2009 10:12:13 AM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: george76

Worth another BTTT!


25 posted on 04/19/2009 12:53:56 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion; george76

This is next on my reading list...thanks to both of you for the reminder!


26 posted on 04/19/2009 2:05:51 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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People cannot be taxed into prosperity. It doesn’t work that way. Government cannot create wealth. What government can do is provide for a stable and unobtrusive environment so that good jobs can be created and money can be invested. In that sense, it’s not about the government actually doing anything to create prosperity, it’s government staying out of the way.

What it all boils down to is we want what you should want for yourself, your children and their children. We want opportunity, liberty and the ability to own our lives. We don’t care about the color or gender of whoever sits in the Oval Office. We don’t want to overthrow the government or march on the White House with pitchforks and torches. All we want is for government to be our servant, not the other way around. As Lincoln reminded us at Gettysburg, Government should be OF the people, by the people and FOR the people, not a bunch of career corruptocraticans whose only real interest is keeping their cushy job.

http://www.violenceworker.com/my_weblog/2009/04/an-open-letter-to-our-liberal-friends.html


27 posted on 04/19/2009 3:25:26 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76; PureSolace; netmilsmom; StarCMC; narses; fanfan; murphE; Mjaye; GodGunsGuts; ...
Ping

FReepmail me if you would like to be added to the low volume, conservative Digg ping list.

28 posted on 04/19/2009 4:40:40 PM PDT by jan in Colorado (In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me? Psalm 56:11)
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"...All we want is for government to be our servant, not the other way around..."

Geezo Crow. What a concept! This "New Learning" amazes me!

With comments like yours, no wonder liberals are annoyed with us!

29 posted on 04/19/2009 5:10:51 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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To: george76; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
thanks geo.
I refuse to allow "Socialism" and "Progressivism" to be understood as benign, helpful, caring, sharing... Socialism and Progressivism are cannibalism.

30 posted on 04/19/2009 6:20:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: george76

Thanks for #27! WORTH ANOTHER BUMP!


31 posted on 04/19/2009 6:34:55 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: jan in Colorado
Dugg.

Socialists are parasites, feeding off the freedom-loving producers.

32 posted on 04/20/2009 4:32:43 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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