Question:
Are Americans being feed Socialism but only focusing on the free corn?
2007-09-05 04:35:41 UTC
A close friend of mine had asked this question, and by mistake Y!A deleted it, so I am going to ask it.

For those in the United States, and this does not apply to anyone else, in particular in Europe or Australia, as we know most of you love your communism, are you enjoying your free government corn?

Enjoy the free stuff from Congress while you can, since it is not free and you are in fact paying for it with your constitutional freedoms.

"This is what I see happening in America today! People are being offered free corn by the government. People are being blind to the fences being built around them by the liberals - the socialists - and that is what frightens me! Just like it was happening in my homeland.

The American people do not learn from history. And history shows that socialism/communism does not work. Take note of Russia.

If you love America, read this article
http://www.illinoissmokersrights.com/how_to_catch_a_wild_hog.html
Fifteen answers:
tribeca_belle
2007-09-05 05:29:15 UTC
I agree that we have to learn from history. Our most serious problem right now is fighting the slide into fascism that has been perpetrated under the Bush administration. The Nazis turned a democratic country into a totalitarian regime under the guise of fighting communism. Then they were fighting the trade unionists, the liberals, the Jews, the homosexuals, the pacifists, and the list just went on and on.



In this country, each major constitutional freedom has been undermined under the guise of fighting terrorism. Our tax money is being diverted to make the war profiteering companies very rich.



The American people have gained absolutely nothing, except more terrorists, less security and much more debt. “Free corn” isn’t even an issue because the taxpayers pay for the corn just as we pay for the bombs and military weapons that are manufactured and used in our name.



I don’t know what European countries you are referring to as “communist” but several European countries have very high standards of living, less wealth disparity, better quality of life including longevity and they enjoy even more civil rights freedom than we do.



We’ve rejected unfettered capitalism because it didn’t work very well for most people and we are rejecting the current slide into fascism because it is against basic American principles. We can achieve a decent system that combines capitalism as the innovative basis of our economy and social programs that benefit Americans, and still preserves our basic constitutional rights. We can’t do anything if we live in fear and act like ignorant, purposely blind, obtuse, propaganda-fed sheep.
2007-09-05 04:54:34 UTC
Corn growers have gotten subsidies from the government for years. In fact Bush has increased the subsidies, particularly to corporate farms. It is a form of corporate welfare. So while corn is not exactly free, it is cheap.



There's no trend toward "socialism," which is government control and ownership of business. If you're equating social and welfare benefits with a "socialistic system" these benefits have been consistently cut since the 1980's. One major exception and the largest give-away ever, the prescription drug benefit devised by George W. Bush and passed by the Republican dominated Congress.



Now that we have 47 million Americans without health insurance, there is a call for national health care of some kind. Why? The free market has taken away people's insurance. This is an instance where the free market has not worked.



Consider whether we need a system which a hybrid of various ideologies and ideas. Laissez-faire capitalism cannot be the perfect cure-all when we have so many people who cannot afford to see a doctor.
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2016-10-10 03:59:11 UTC
Socialism - stable on Paper, no longer in actuality... An economics professor at Texas Tech reported he had failed very few scholars yet had, as quickly as, failed an entire type. That type had insisted that socialism worked and that no person could be poor and no person could be wealthy, a large equalizer. The professor then reported, "ok, we would have an test in this form on socialism." "All grades would be averaged and all of us might get carry of the comparable grade which ability, needless to say, no person will get carry of an A." all of them agreed to this. After the 1st attempt the grades have been averaged and all of us have been given a C. the scholars who studied tense have been dissatisfied and the scholars who studied little have been happy. yet, because of the fact the 2d attempt rolled around, the scholars who studied little had studied even much less and people who studied tense desperate they needed a loose journey too, so they studied little. the 2d attempt widespread replaced right into a D! no person replaced into happy. while the third attempt rolled around the common replaced into an F. The scores on no account greater as bickering, blame and contact calling all resulted in tense thoughts and no person might learn for the income of all of us else. To their large dismay the professor failed all of them. Then he despatched all of them this be conscious: "A socialistic government will additionally finally fail - because of the fact while the advantages is large, the attempt to prevail is large, yet while government takes all the advantages away, no person will attempt or decide for to prevail."
Ktcyan
2007-09-05 04:48:40 UTC
Check out zeitgeistmovie.com and you'll get the story, be sure to watch the whole thing for there are many different segments. Makes you think about things you've never thought possible and then start sorting out the truth all over again! It doesn't look like democracy is working too well in Russia either or is that just our news??? I'd be afraid of Putin.
rmagedon
2007-09-05 05:09:53 UTC
What a brilliant yet simple article, direct and straight to the point. Far too many Americans have succumbed to relying on the government to take care of them, rather than remain self-reliant, and that is unfortunate since the more dependent Americans become on the Congress, the more demanding Congress will be on our freedoms, and that of course the beginning of the end of a civilization.



The fact also shows clearly that those who want socialism are not going to let me speak out about it, having reported the question for deletion.



Why is it that communists, socialists and Democrats want to take your freedom of speech? Grabbing for peoples rights is dangerous, you never know what you might get your hands on.
2007-09-05 04:53:04 UTC
Building The Socialist Community One Child at a Time



Read this.



http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/165965/lego_lunacy.html
hottiecj *~♥~*~♥~*
2007-09-05 05:48:17 UTC
It breaks my heart the we Americans are not taught basic economics in school, and kept in ignorance. I had to actually go to my local library and study it on my own 10 years after highschool. As evident on this forum, a frightening amount of my fellow Americans simply do not accept the fact that NOTHING is free. There is no such thing as a handout, and government has no money of its own. It only has what we allow it to take from us. The more we allow it to take, the more control it has over us. What is packaged to us as "handouts and subsidies" is theft and enslavement.
2007-09-05 04:52:04 UTC
The Who said it best... meet the new boss, same as the old boss. We hold some of our Presidents in the highest regard, whether Democrat or Republican. Hoover and Roosevelt had started this mess we're living in now. Starting with the Federal Reserve and allowing a war machine to dictate our economy, to our modern day search for a boogey man in empty caves in the Middle East. Bush is no different than Clinton.. You call it communism or socialism..but the end result is to have the populace living in submission. This is the agenda of our current administration and all future administrations, whether Democrat or Republican. Their objectives are clear:



Create a New World Order.. Enforce the Real ID act complete with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips....Open borders with Mexico and Canada.. Commence the North American Union.. Establish the Amero...Centralized World Banking.. Continue the War in Iraq to redistribute wealth back to the wealthy...look for the boogey man in empty caves ..have the media distract you and entertain you so you don't notice what is going on... dominate the world
Enigma
2007-09-05 04:46:51 UTC
It seems to me that the right has been chipping away at constitutional freedoms as hard as they can go lately. That's like the pot calling the kettle black. Only thing is the right do it to advance the wealthiest and the left do it for the middle class and the poor who represent the larger portion of this country.......and no it's not free corn. Sure it comes out of taxpayers money but what better way to spend it. On wars in sovereign nations? This is a pitiful analogy. Last time I checked it was still We The People not We The Richest People.
Jacob W
2007-09-05 04:46:21 UTC
Yes, you are exactly right. Most people know very little of the horror of socialism and plenty about the Utopian dreams. They are taught that Capitalism causes unequal distribution of wealth and socialism produces equal distribution of wealth. What they don't know is that in reality, socialism lowers everyone to the lowest of all living standards and then equalizes the poverty. Everyone is equally miserable. You own nothing, you have no privacy, you have no liberty, even your children belong to the state, not to you. They really need to learn the reality of socialism not the theory.



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kathy059
2007-09-05 05:17:33 UTC
Our children are being indoctrinated into socialist thinking thanks to our public school system. As parents, we are responsible for breaking that mindset. The nice thing about it though is that the public schools are cranking out more conservatives than liberals. By the time the kids are teens, they're sick of socialism within those walls.



What they go on to do about it is a different story though.
2007-09-05 04:48:55 UTC
FREE CORN??? Yeah, just like $$$FREE$$$ public education, ha ha, ha! With the republocratic party we even have to pay for the habanero sauce they use as a lubricant before they bury it to us! Play it safe & vote Ron Paul & support our Libertarian party to take back OUR country & YOUR personal freedoms!
2007-09-05 04:58:56 UTC
Well stated.
cantcu
2007-09-05 04:42:59 UTC
That is interesting as the socialist and liberals have Hardly been in power for forty years.



I guess you are calling Reagan, Bush and Bush socialists! They were in power.



It isn't liberals you need to fear as they aren't the ones taking away freedoms. That is George Bush and he is no liberal! He is great for corporate welfare. Is that what you consider corn?



Please look at this and tell me where the money went and who spent it! COMMIES! I don't think so. Fascists maybe!



http://www.uuforum.org/deficit.htm
2007-09-05 06:28:19 UTC
Thank you for the link

I and many others here try to open the eyes and minds of those that can be. I work with people who came from a former Soviet country and the stories would spin your mind. And know a few Holocaust saviors and Armenian genocide we all have to learn from history but we in the USA being fed cheap goods from China and the left here are in for a very bad awakening that will be to late if we do not wake up now while we can.

Like dieing in your sleep we must wake up before our heart gives out. and can never wake up.

We have many things to deal with.

1. Boarders and illegals we need to fix immigration for the good to come here.

2. Islamic terrorism and we must win all all cost our be dead.

3. Communism from with in with the left and the former and still serving country's like Russia, China and our Democrats.

4. Welfare or free corn and the hand out pork programs like Corn fuel where it cost more to make and the farmers get hand outs from the Government. People not working for their way in life and consuming more than they can pay for and expecting others to do it for them.



The fence is around us and it is time to run from it.

I will post this 1963 Communist gaols again for all to read.

Also in the words of a famous Dem. Lady bird Johnson she said to Barbra Walters " the great society is the worst thing to happen to the USA" Welfare.



1963 Communist Goals

The following was entered into the Congressional record by Albert Herlong, Jr. (a Floridian who served in Congress from 1949-69) in 1963.



1) US acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war

2) US willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war

3) Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the US would be a demonstration of "moral strength"

4) Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5) Extension of long term loans to Russia and Soviet Satellites

6) Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination

7) Grant recognition of Red China, and admission of Red China to the UN.

8) Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the Germany question by free elections under supervision of the UN

9) Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the US has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress

10) Allow all Soviet Satellites individual representation in the UN

11) Promote the UN as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the UN as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo)

12) Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party

13) Do away with loyalty oaths

14) Continue giving Russia access to the US Patent Office

15) Capture one or both of the political parties in the US

16) Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17) Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism, and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in text books.

18) Gain control of all student newspapers

19) Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20) Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

21) Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.

22) Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings", substitute shapeless, awkward, and meaningless forms.

23) Control art critics and directors of art museums. " Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art".

24) Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25) Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography, and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.

26) Present Homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as "normal, natural, and healthy".

27) Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch"

28) Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state"

29) Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30) Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man".

31) Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big picture:" Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32) Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture - - education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33) Eliminate all laws or procedures, which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34) Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35) Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI

36) Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37) Infiltrate and gain control of big business

38) Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand or treat.

39) Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40) Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41) Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42) Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special interest groups should rise up and make a "united force" to solve economic, political, or social problems.

43) Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44) Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45) Repeal the Connally Reservation so the US can not prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.

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Check http://www.glennbeck.com for more


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