Gipper
Well-Known Member
well...explained for dummies. I think these three quotes do a good job of explaining socialism.
Why is it that some Americans can't comprehend its ineffectiveness and tyrannical nature? Are they dumb? Or, could it be they have been brainwashed by leftist elite? Or, is it just that they are just lazy and weak? Which is it? Could be all the above?
Why is it that some Americans can't comprehend its ineffectiveness and tyrannical nature? Are they dumb? Or, could it be they have been brainwashed by leftist elite? Or, is it just that they are just lazy and weak? Which is it? Could be all the above?
"[W]e can either have an economy that puts the private citizen at the center -- the consumer, the worker, the entrepreneur -- and lets each individual be the judge of what to buy or sell, where to work, where to invest, and what to create. Or we can put the government at the center of the economy and let the bureaucrats and politicians call the balls and strikes and decide who's out of business, or who will get the big contract and be home free." --Ronald Reagan
"This perversion of rights is killing the Western world. ... All the free stuff is free in the sense of those offers that begin 'You pay nothing now!' But you will eventually. No nation is rich enough to give you all this 'free' stuff year in, year out. ... According to the Senate Budget Committee, U.S. government debt is currently $44,215 per person. Going by the official Obama budget numbers, it will rise over the next 10 years to $75,000. As I say, that's per person: 75 grand in debt for every man, woman and child, not to mention every one of the ever swelling ranks of retirees and disabled Social Security recipients -- or about $200,000 per household. ... [A]t some point, no matter how painless the seductions of statism, you run up against the hard math: As those debt per capita numbers make plain, all this 'free' stuff is doing is mortgaging your liberty and lining up a future of serfdom." --columnist Mark Steyn
"The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The greatest achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way. In the only cases in which the masses have escaped from ... grinding poverty ... the only cases in recorded history are where they have had capitalism and largely free trade. If you want to know where the masses are worst off, it's exactly in the kind of societies that depart from that." --economist Milton Friedman