Dec

7

Commie Keynes

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Ilana Mercer writes on John Maynard Keynes and his disciples, the contemptible lot that they are.

The commie who controls the economy from the grave

“Why do people still fail to get Keynes, after all these years?” carped an impatient and uppity Paul Krugman, columnist for the New York Times.

Krugman, an avowed Keynesian – and the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics – replied robotically:

“For – though no one will believe it – economics is a technical and difficult subject.”

In other words, leave it to the experts.

Diminishing ordinary people, like demonizing private enterprise, is essential Keynesianism. Ditto “semantic obscurity.” Keynes “clothed the simplest proposition in the most complicated phraseology,” writes the author of “Keynes At Harvard: Economic Deception as a Political Credo.”

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Nov

27

Have we become a communist country yet? Part II

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Below is Chapter 3 of the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS.
The Constitution of the United States in comparison grants none of these delegated powers to the federal government. Strangely enough our federal government has over the years adopted practically all of these responsibilities and powers that the Soviet government gave to itself to mold social development and culture. Even though most Americans despised communism and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and would consider these powers to be tyrannical and un-American, how many people have noticed that the federal government through its many laws and the alphabet soup agencies they created over the decades have adopted parts of the Soviet Constitution? Not many I would guess. I don’t think most Americans have a clue about what powers are delegated to their federal government in the constitution and why, but I would guess confidently though that many Americans would defend the federal government having these Soviet-like responsibilities and powers anyway—they would even consider it American as apple pie if only because they don’t know any better! Is there any wonder why this country is headed down the crapper like the late Soviet Union? Our forefathers must be turning in their graves.

Chapter 3: SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURE

Article 19. The social basis of the USSR is the unbreakable alliance of the workers, peasants, and intelligentsia.
The state helps enhance the social homogeneity of society, namely the elimination of class differences and of the essential distinctions between town and country and between mental and physical labour, and the all-round development and drawing together of all the nations and nationalities of the USSR.

Article 20. In accordance with the communist ideal–”The free development of each is the condition of the free development of all”–the state pursues the aim of giving citizens more and more real opportunities to apply their creative energies, abilities, and talents, and to develop their personalities in every way.

Article 21. The state concerns itself with improving working conditions, safety and labour protection and the scientific organisation of work, and with reducing and ultimately eliminating all arduous physical labour through comprehensive mechanisation and automation of production processes in all branches of the economy.

Article 22. A programme is being consistently implemented in the USSR to convert agricultural work into a variety of industrial work, to extend the network of educational, cultural, and medical institutions, and of trade, public catering, service and public utility facilities in rural localities, and transform hamlets and villages into well-planned and well-appointed settlements.

Article 23. The state pursues a steady policy of raising people’s pay levels and real incomes through increase in productivity.
In order to satisfy the needs of Soviet people more fully social consumption funds are created. The state, with the broad participation of public organisations and work collectives, ensures the growth and just distribution of these funds.

Article 24. In the USSR, state systems of health protection, social security, trade and public catering, communal services and amenities, and public utilities, operate and are being extended.
The state encourages co-operatives and other public organisations to provide all types of services for the population. It encourages the development of mass physical culture and sport.

Article 25. In the USSR there is a uniform system of public education, which is being constantly improved, that provides general education and vocational training for citizens, serves the communist education and intellectual and physical development of the youth, and trains them for work and social activity.

Article 26. In accordance with society’s needs, the state provides for planned development of science and the training of scientific personnel and organises introduction of the results of research in the economy and other spheres of life.

Article 27. The state concerns itself with protecting, augmenting and making extensive use of society’s cultural wealth for the moral and aesthetic education of the Soviet people, for raising their cultural level.

In the USSR development of the professional, amateur and folk arts is encouraged in every way.

Aug

27

Ron Paul on socialism as the enemy of liberty

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Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk Column
August 25, 2008

Freedom is Golden

As the Olympics wind down, I am amazed at how things change every four years. Many Americans were glued to their televisions to watch the excitement from Beijing, and also heard announcers wax nostalgic with memories of times when the Soviet Union was the USA’s biggest competitor for Olympic gold. There was a time when it was unthinkable that a government as powerful as that of the Soviet Union’s could possibly crumble, yet crumble it did. The irony is that the strength of the Soviet government was also its weakness, as no country, no economic system can remain strong under the crushing burden that is central planning.

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Mar

27

Chavez Collectivizes, Hillary Takes Notes

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As Venezuelan’s are starving for staple food items, El Presidente Hugo Chavez continues to squander his country’s oil wealth and bloviate about his new socialist reforms, promising to replace the evil old capitalist concept of private property with the good old Communist concept of collective property.
Under the new system, workers will share the profits from state-financed cooperatives. Chavez says, “It’s property that belongs to everyone and it’s going to benefit everyone.”
Obviously Chavez hasn’t heard that the Pilgrims tried that for awhile way back when in North America and everybody starved, but hey, take a Utopian idea that’s failed in every country since forever and put a new guy in charge and it’ll work this time. Right?

The International Herald Tribune says, “Chavez — a leftist former paratrooper popularly known as “El Comandante” — said his government fully respects private property, but pledged to replace capitalist ideals with socialist principles on cooperatives such as cattle ranches and farms.”, and Chavez is going to “expropriate large ranches and farms spanning more than 300,000 hectares (740,000 acres) and redistribute lands deemed “idle” to the poor under a nationwide agrarian reform.”

Does anyone detect a bit of hypocrisy in those statements? How do you respect private property and at the same time vow to expropriate (steal) private property? Sadly it sounds similar to what we call eminent domain in the United States, which has been turned into a scheme to steal private property and redistribute it for political purposes.
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Mar

24

Speaking of Communism…

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Thomas DiLorenzo reports on LRC that the Maryland State Legislature (Nanny Commies) is about to pass a statewide ban on smoking in all bars and restaurants.

“One of the local news channels this morning reported from an American Legion hall (which wants to be exempted) and came up with this great quote from a crusty old Korean War veteran with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other: “This is communism. It’s what they did in Russia. I didn’t fight for my country to come home and live under communism!”"

Mar

24

Commie Quote of the Week

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From this Newsday article on Feb 22nd:

“Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton slammed private-school voucher proposals yesterday, predicting that vouchers would eventually lead to the creation of taxpayer-financed white supremacist academies - or even a government-funded “School of the Jihad.””

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“First family that comes and says ‘I want to send my daughter to St. Peter’s Roman Catholic School’ and you say ‘Great, wonderful school, here’s your voucher,’” Clinton said. “Next parent that comes and says, ‘I want to send my child to the school of the Church of the White Supremacist …’ The parent says, ‘The way that I read Genesis, Cain was marked, therefore I believe in white supremacy. … You gave it to a Catholic parent, you gave it to a Jewish parent, under the Constitution, you can’t discriminate against me.”

“So what if the next parent comes and says, ‘I want to send my child to the School of the Jihad? … I won’t stand for it.”

After all, how is Hillary going to run her communal village and raise good little socialists if she doesn’t own your money and your children’s minds. Yes, I can see her wisdom, give parents a choice where they want to send their kids to school and before you know it, White Supremacist and Jihadist schools will be popping up all over the place to meet the demand. And you know what that means, there goes the workers paradise neighborhood.

Here’s a better idea for education, no Hillary and no government schools:

HT Mike Rebmann