Posted on 09/09/2009 1:13:19 PM PDT by RolandTignor
FAIL................
Google ad:
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ahhh my picture is to small. bahhh
I’ll reupload it.
<img height=400 src=http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll276/rolandtignor/merriamwebstersocialismwithobamaad.jpg>
Don't know how to adjust the focus...
nope. photobucket is killing me.
LMAO! Good catch!
That is funny. Apparently enough people have searched Google using search terms like “Obama health plan socialism,” so that the Google ad software automatically assigned this ad to the dictionary entry for socialism. I wonder how long that will stay there. I predict it will be gone by the end of the day.
In the meanwhile, make them pay, click the link often.
Much more importantly, however, the idea already has been tried in America--and it failed, according to the diary of Governor William Bradford. America's Founders rejected it soundly in their Constitution for a free society.
The Miracle of America
from
axes and hoes to high technology;
log cabins to air-conditioned condos;
horsedrawn wagons to autos, planes, and rockets;
scarcity to abundance; &
from tyrannical government rule to individual liberty
HOW DID IT ALL BEGIN?
Most of our history books don’t tell us that, in the beginning, the pilgrims established a communal economic system. Each was to produce according to his ability and contribute his production to a common storehouse from which each was to draw according to his need.
The assurance that they would be fed from the common store, regardless of their contribution to it, had a peculiarly disabling effect on the colonists. Taking property away from some and giving it to others bred discontent and retarded employment. Human nature was the same then as now, and before long, there were more consumers than there were producers, and the pilgrims were near starvation. Governor Bradford, his advisors, and the colonists agreed that in order to increase their crops, each family would be allowed to do as it pleased with whatever it produced. In other words, a free market system was established. In Governor Bradford’s own words:
“This had very good success; for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corne was planted than other waise would have bene by any means ye Governor or any other could use, and saved him a great deall of trouble, and gave farr better contente. The women now wente willingly into ye field, and tooke their little-ons with them to set corne, which before would aledg weaknes, and inabilitie; whom to have compelled would have bene though great tiranie and oppression. . . . By this time harvest was come, and instead of famine, now God gave them plenty, and the face of things was changed. . . . and some of ye abler sort and more industrious had to spare, and sell to others, so as any generall wante or famine hath not been amongst them since this day . . . .” (Wm. Bradford, “Of Plimoth Plantation,” original manuscript, Wright & Potter, Boston, 1901)
Those who, today, favor central government planning, common ownership and redistribution of the earnings of others are advocating a system that Americans tried and rejected over 350 years ago. Their wisdom gave birth to the great American miracle!
Are we as wise today?
You Can Do Something About This!
(This message originally published in the mid-1980’s by Stedman Corporation’s Government Affairs & Free Enterprise Education Program – a former NC textile firm. For more essays in this series, visit www.ouragelessconstitution.com )
Good post loveliberty2!!!
I punched in "communism" and got this google ad in the sidebar:
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Just noticed it looking up socialism. I got this guy on Facebook that tells me that I don’t know about socialism so I had to look at the definition again so I didn’t think I was crazy.
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