Posted: 3/27/2011 12:34:23 PM EDT
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"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 |
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Basically the entire Wikiquote page on Jeane Kirkpatrick "Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors" "As I read the utopian socialists, the scientific socialists, the German Social Democrats and revolutionary socialists — whatever I could in either English or French — I came to the conclusion that almost all of them, including my grandfather, were engaged in an effort to change human nature. The more I thought about it, the more I thought this was not likely to be a successful effort. So I turned my attention more and more to political philosophy and less and less to socialist activism of any kind." |
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From each based on ability, to each based on need.- Atlas Shrugged To me, that quote is the exact philosophy of socialism/communism. Try Karl Marx. My favorite I heard from a family friend, Alexi, on Thanksgiving. He is a former KGB agent during the heyday of the USSR. My mother and father had he, his wife and 26 year old son over for the meal. The political discussions were interesting and quite illuminating. The guy knew my AK74 in a way that a WWII veteran knows a Garand. He said: "Why would you elect this Barack Obama? He is coward, a fool and a socialist! Socialism... heh... You're not going to like socialism..." The last part was said while shaking his head disgustedly. |
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"Go make your own fucking way in life, and for Christ's sake buy some soap." - wunbadweel I like! 
Please do bear in mind: this does not affect the standing offer of refuge for you and CBF when you finally apply for political asylum to our Free State. We can share our soap, but you'll still need to cart your own ammo, dammit. 
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My favorite (And oldest ) one comes from someone who saw what a shitty idea it (Socialism) was from the very
beginning. His father, Robert Owen more or less coined the term to describe his "experiment" at "New harmony" Indiana in the early 19th century. They managed to take a thriving township (One of the largest and most productive at that time) and in two years completely run it into the ground (after multiple reorganizations and 6-7 different constitutions). The founder of new Harmony, Robert Owen claimed later that his experiment failed because he started it with "poor human capital" (Isn't that what they ALWAYS say?). His son, Robert Dale Owen, who watched the whole fiasco unfold was a little more prophetic (And hit the nail right on the Mf'ng head). HE said of Socialism: "All cooperative schemes which provide equal remuneration to the skilled and industrious and the ignorant and idle must work their own downfall. For by this unjust plan, they must of necessity eliminate the valuable members and retain only the improvident, unskilled and vicious" Here's a link to a pretty good documentary on socialism that covers the New Harmony disaster early on. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=heaven+on+earth+the+rise+and+fall+of+socialism&aq=0 |
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"The experience that was had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato's and other ancients applauded by some of later times; that the taking away of property and bringing in community into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God. For this community (so far as it was) was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For the young men, that were most able and fit for labour and service, did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without any recompense." William Bradford, first Governor of Massachusetts (isn't it ironic? Doncha think?) |
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From each based on ability, to each based on need.- Atlas Shrugged To me, that quote is the exact philosophy of socialism/communism. Wrong!! Kark Marx. Here is the rest of the story... The complete paragraph containing Marx's statement of the creed in the 'Critique of the Gotha Program' is as follows: In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs |
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Says it all!!! 
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I'll Start: "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 Cool some new Facebook status' for me 
"Socialism is great until the rich runs out of money" (not sure who said it) |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: "Go make your own fucking way in life, and for Christ's sake buy some soap." - wunbadweel I like! Please do bear in mind: this does not affect the standing offer of refuge for you and CBF when you finally apply for political asylum to our Free State. We can share our soap, but you'll still need to cart your own ammo, dammit. Cart my ammo? No no... I'll need a separate U-Haul for that stuff. |
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"All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all guns, that way no guns can ever be used to command the party." –– Mao Tse Tung "Selected Works of Mao Zedong," 1965 "Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." –– Mao Tse Tung |
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"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level."
–– Norman Mailer "You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money." –– P. J. O'Rourke "Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." –– Thomas Sowell "A government policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul." –– George Bernard Shaw "Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries." –– Douglas Casey "Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good." –– Ayn Rand |