Posted on 04/26/2020 4:18:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
Are you enjoying your first taste of socialism? Life in America today is a sneak preview of life in Cuba or Venezuela. Democrats love it. This is the future they plan for you. The current economic catastrophe is exactly what America will look like if we institute the Green New Deal.
The goal is to defeat climate change by killing your job, taking away your car, closing your business and turning America into Cuba or Venezuela.
It's a progressive Democrat's rainy dream.
And isn't it great? You don't need to go to work. Money magically appears in your bank account. Hopefully, you can live on $1,200 every six weeks for the rest of your life.
You get to spend long days watching daytime talk shows and movies on Netflix -- you know, the things Democrats call a "typical day" for their voters.
And think of the money you can save on gas by not going anywhere. Soon all those nasty, polluting, carbon-emitting vehicles will be just a memory of the past. How wonderful will it be to have time to "just think" as you wait hours for those new energy-efficient buses and subways?
And, with all those nasty "nonessential" businesses closed, you'll have plenty of time to converse with your neighbors as you wait in line to see if anything is available for you to buy. It's socialist nirvana.
So, please be honest with me: Are you enjoying your small taste of life in a socialist country? Are all these great benefits of socialism what you expected? You know, being told the business you spent your life building is nonessential and being forced to close; being stuck at home and not allowed to hold a job; having only the money your benevolent government decides you need; waiting in long supermarket lines only to see empty shelves; finding out toilet paper is now a valuable commodity; being told where you're allowed to go; being banned (in some states such as Michigan) from traveling to your second home; not being allowed to go to church; and having all your movements monitored and recorded.
Having fun yet? Welcome to a test drive of socialist America.
Democrats are just getting started. Soon they'll tell you whether you're allowed to enjoy yourself anymore. No more golf, bars, nightclubs, liquor stores, spas, movie theaters, bowling alleys. Oh, wait, that's already happened.
But of course, marijuana stores are open. They're "essential." This is what Democrats like Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been pushing for years. This is their rainy dream.
In a truly socialist country, it is much worse. In a truly socialist country, your internet is tightly monitored; television is controlled by government; and all media is propaganda -- even a step worse than it is in America today. Although, The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are all trying hard to give socialist banana republics a run for their money.
In a socialist country, as envisioned by today's Democratic Party, you will not have a car. Those will be reserved for party bosses like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Chuck Schumer and AOC. You will have to work in a state-assigned job. Doctors and janitors will make the same salary.
There will be huge "advantages," according to the crazy socialists of the Democratic Party. Stores will be much smaller. And with the closure of all those greedy corporations, buying decisions will be much less confusing. The shelves will be empty anyway, so who will need all that space?
And, to achieve a small carbon footprint, you will live in a tiny apartment and travel to work only on public transportation. But isn't that precisely why New York City is the worst coronavirus-infected area in the country? Half the country's dead are in one city. Oops, liberals forgot to mention that little problem.
And toilet paper? There will never again be a shortage. The soft kind will only go to socialist politicians and government bureaucrats. The rest of us will do our part to save the planet by using biodegradable corn husks.
I've saved the best for last. One hundred and ten percent of you will vote -- just like in many Democratic inner cities in the past few elections. There will always be more votes than registered voters. That's the way socialists like it. And, your ballot will show up in the mail. Don't worry if you don't receive it. The person sent by the government to pick it up will have extras. He or she will even help you fill it out. In a couple of years, it will get even easier, as there will be only one box to check.
My husbands favorite line to me and others who complain about all the injustices mentioned in the article, he pauses for effect and says, “What are you going to do about it, Vote?
I’ve got a job that allows me to work from home.
Millions of people don’t/can’t.
How long do we give the “good people working day and night to solve the problem” to solve the problem?
What happens when we tell all those involved in the production of food to stay home, because a lot of them are COVID-infected? Or do we tell them to take a side of beef or pork home to butcher in their bathrooms, and then bring it back to the plant for distribution?
Just curious....what job have you “adapted” to, from home, during this shut down and economic obliteration?
I’m sure many out-of-work people, here, would appreciate your sharing this.
I am a mechanical engineer and have a 3-D CAD design computer. I send my drawings to protyping companies, assemble my assemblies, test them and send them in to my company.
My wife teaches 2nd grade using Zoom live sessions with her students.
We have adapted.
As long as we can - but we have to be willing to hang in there, to endure what we have to, to give them time.
Know anything about the 1918 epidemic? This one may be that big, soon.
I can’t help being irritated at “conservatives” who haven’t got the intelligence to see that 50,000 dead Americans in one month is a serious problem.
These are the same kind of “conservatives” I knew in my generation who sat out our war for whatever excuses they could come up with.
We have adapted.
= =
Yes.
With two very basic types of jobs that the majority of those who’ve lost their jobs can adapt to, as well.
(No /sarc tag needed.)
Look, I get that there are a minority of good income producing jobs that can be done from home.
As well as a lot of Americans who are retired from good paying careers that pay them a decent pension, or retirement benefits.
But, for the rest of the American workers, their jobs cannot “adapt” to be performed at home.
They’ve stayed at home for FIVE weeks, going on SIX weeks, now.
We were told, by the “GOOD” and “smart” people advising POTUS to give them TWO weeks, to flatten the curve.
Then, it became an additional week. Now, we’re going on SIX weeks.
We flattened the curve and have killed the economy.
Yet, the leftist goalposts keep moving.
Anyone in support of continued lockdowns for all, is working against this country.
And anyone pushing to open everything back up now is saying "we're fine with thousands more dying".
Take your pick.
“I am a mechanical engineer and have a 3-D CAD design computer. I send my drawings to protyping companies, assemble my assemblies, test them and send them in to my company.
My wife teaches 2nd grade using Zoom live sessions with her students.
We have adapted.”
In other words, you and yours have jobs and also you and yours have no idea what it takes to build, run, and sustain a small business. Got it.
You expect millions of Americans to be sacrificial lambs on the altar of a crashed economy while you have absolutely no skin in the game.
OMG this no more of an emergency than the Hong Kong flu was look up the stats of that flu YET we all worked our businesses were NOT run into bankruptcy the country was NOT locked down, with that flu women, children, men ALL ages died this virus is ONLY dangerous to those with obesity, diabetes, pre diabetes, hypertension and elderly this is NOT AN EMERGENCY!!!!
You are a complete idiot, it is just great that you and your wife can adapt how wonderful for you how in the HELL to restaurants adapt, the thousands of cooks and servers the restaurant owners you are BEYOND SELFISH so glad YOUR life is OK!!!
One way our country survives. The other way it doesn't.
"Anyone in support of continued lockdowns for all, is working against this country."
And anyone pushing to open everything back up now is saying "we're fine with thousands more dying".
Take your pick.
Take your pick.
Did we shut-down the entire country for 18 months for the Spanish flu?
I seriously doubt it. We were fighting a war, needing to build rifles and ammunition and ships and airplanes.
Considering that to the best of my knowledge, there has NEVER been a safe and effective vaccine developed for ANY strain of coronavirus, you’re advocating shutting-down the country for decades.
That’s daft.
The elderly, the obese, those with diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. need to stay isolated.
Those who regularly interact with those people need to stay isolated.
Everyone else needs to get back to work.
ESPECIALLY those involved in getting food from the ground to the grocery stores.
Everyone in this country has complied to flatten the curve.
Again...it’s flat.
How many people do you suggest stay at home, and how many businesses are you suggesting stay closed....and, for each, how long, exactly?
The historic job creation, that Pres Trump did for hispanics and blacks....highest employment numbers for them, EVER, have been completely erased.
How and when do you, oh expert on this subject, get THOSE jobs back??
Bump
No longer willing.
When our Rulers call for "sacrificing", they mean yours, not theirs.
“...50,000 dead Americans in one month is a serious problem.”
Your information is faulty. The numbers we are looking at started being tallied in January. Even if we count from the end of January, we are looking at 50,000 deaths in THREE months, *half* of which are from NYS and NJ alone, and the other half from the entire rest of the country.
This coronavirus has a widespread infection rate, very limited death rate, and 92-98% of people recover from it completely. Of those who die, 90-some-odd percent have underlying comorbidities. It is very similar to the flu, which routinely takes the lives of 50,000+ per year.
It is apparent that you are married to an NEA liberal who is influencing your thinking.
Are YOU "fine" with thousands (and more) dying from suicide, domestic abuse, substance abuse, neglect--including neglected health screenings, testings, and procedures--for the sake of a minority of folks, mostly already confined like prisoners in "nursing homes"? This "cure" will prove equal or worse than the disease.
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