Posted on 07/03/2009 8:26:57 AM PDT by massmike
While the world was focused on the death of Michael Jackson, the U.S. House passed the largest tax increase in our history. The "Cap and Tax" bill passed on Friday has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with tax and control. In his speech about it, Obama pointed to California as the example to follow. The amazing thing is that he did it with a straight face.
While California lies in bankruptcy, we are now seeing a hostile government takeover of our banks, our finances and our car industry, and they are now aimed at our energy, our mobility and our health.
I thought we beat communism. I thought when the Berlin Wall came down so did its failed ideology. I was wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
http://www.rollye.net/CapTradeBlog.html
“Illogical is a word that can sum up the whole carbon/emissions market. I could have saved you the trouble of reading perhaps 20 pages of information if I would have just sent a blank email with the subject line “Emissions Market = Illogical.” But now I have proof. Lots and lots and lots of proof.... maybe illogical is not the word. Despicable will do.”
Don’t criticize the upper ranks and communist lies and fraud, it’s bad for the nation’s morale and stock market (sarc off)
Communism: It's baaarrrrack. There, fixed it.
Good article. And very relevant to our current situation.
After reading it, consider who among our current crop of politicians would be capable of playing the role that Reagan played back then. Not being another Reagan, but having the faith and staunchness to win the kind of victory he won.
Not Mitt Romney. Not any flip flopping RINO. Not the current leadership of the RNC. Frankly, the only one I see out there with that kind of faith and confidence in the right and the good is Sarah Palin. Nothing less than an unshakeable faith will do it, because like Reagan a new conservative president will be surrounded by people advising him to compromise and give in and just wait a little longer and so forth.
Not blind faith, but steadfast faith and determination to do the right thing. Yes, compromise and wait on some issues, but only if that really is the right thing to do.
Sarah has shown that strength of character and that ability to get things done. Some other candidate may suddenly appear on the scene, but I haven’t seen anyone else to match her yet. And she is strong on all three conservative legs of the stool: social conservatism, fiscal sanity, and patriotic defense of country.
This country of ours will never beat communism until we outlaw it. But the liberals say that communists have the right to voice their opinion. As far as I’m concerned, no they don’t. Communism totally goes against every thing this country stands for. It should be outlawed. We need someone strong enough to step into McCarthy’s shoes. Yes, some innocent people got hurt during the McCarthy era, but it set communism back 60 years. If we do it again, more innocent people will get hurt but that’s what happens when we don’t stand up to as needed.
Our pundits are still calling communism a failed ideology. I still differ. I don’t think it fails at all. Since the goals of communism are total control over the economy and the impoverishment and subjugation of the population, it is actually wildly successful.
There is always the hope that Russia will surpass the USA eventually if we continue on the road to socialism at teh same time tohey continue going to free enterprise. There has to be one major power that can provide a standard once the US is reduced to 3rd. world status.
Where is Paul Revere and folks like him in that moment in history when we need them today/now? The computer age certainly has not awakened many of these folks into reality.
Just wondering: In our population, what is the % of literate computer adult folks? I never thought about that until now. Among those who have computers, I suppose many of those just play games and/or e-mail.
Outlaw it? No, then we become the same as them.
What we must do is be unashamed of our own beliefs
in freedom and government. For too long our schools and
media have inculcated a feeling of distrust and misbelief
in our own form of government, as some how harmful and abusive. This must stop and the truth about socialism
and the massive cost in lives and fortune it has cost be told.
T.
Totalitarians just keep getting better and better tools of oppression (technological, sophisticated propaganda, etc.)
I always remember a quote from, of all people, Charles Fort, something to the effect that the steam engine will arrive "when it's steam engine time".
His thesis was that the idea of a steam engine existed (and theoretically existed forever). It was only when technology and the surrounding resources became available that the steam engine could be practically built and put to use.
Totatlitarianism hasn't gone away. It will keep coming back like kudzo, unless we weed it out.
“But the liberals say that communists have the right to voice their opinion”
Furthermore, the left quietly whispers that communism has not succeeded because it has never had the RIGHT kind of leadership and that communism won’t work due to the presence of capitalism.
By stating that communism won’t work due to capitalism is a backward way of saying that capitalism is superior and must be eliminated.
Just repeating what I’v heard....
Communism is not a philosophy but a barbaric howl dressed up as a philosophy. In my opinion, unfortunately, the widespread American Rationalist concept of freedom has a weakness with respect to this distinction. It considers all purported opinions to be geniune opinions and refuses to analyze them further, considering them all to be equally sacrosanct. This leaves room for Marxism to be construed as just one opinion within the universe of opinions, just as sacrosanct as the rest. A long time ago, America instinctively reacted against communism with events such as the Red Scare and the Smith Act prosecutions, but this was before the poison of propositional Unitarian secularism had completely paralyzed the body politic. Nowadays there isn’t much left to the popular concept of freedom besides a preoccupation with people’s ability to partake in escapist pleasure-seeking, which frankly isn’t saying much.
I don’t accept the idea that “We would be no differnt than them”. We aren’t like them. The goal of communism is the total distruction of the United States. That in itself is a decleration of war. Our fathers, grandfathers, our aunts and uncles, fought and died to kill nazism and communism. Could we do any less?
I agree totally. People want us to believe that they have the same rights that we do. When it comes to the goal of destroying the United States, I don’t believe communists have any rights at all in this country.
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