Avoid socialism

[Peter1469]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/10/rich-worried-and-buying-ad-time/

The left continues to tell normal people that there is no socialism in America. We too often we here from people who grew up under it say that there is a creeping socialism in America.

"I grew up in a socialist country and I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom, no pride in achievement," he says with a soft Hungarian accent in the ad. "The nation became poorer and poorer, and that's what I see happening here."

The left tells the rich that they aren't paying their fair share, yet the top 20% pays over 80% of the federal income taxes.

"I’ve paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime, now I am being told that I am not contributing my fair share?" he said in an interview.

The left is not just loony, it is dangerous.

[patrickt]

The left tells people to vote their own self interest and most people are sponging off the taxpayers. That means the minority are getting screwed. The left is big on "pay your fair share" which means you pay a lot and they pay nothing but what about "pull your own weight?" Oh, no, none of that.

I do not consider taking care of people who through no fault of their own cannot take care of themselves. No, I do not want to take care of junkies, drunks, and deadbeats.

Liberals have only one solution for every real or imagined problem. Raise taxes on a few, spend more on many. For liberals, it's income redistribution by the government or nothing. They have no other strategy. That's it. Total story.

[Chris]

Here's the ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnX7TNFIELg

[Chris]

There was a recent thread extolling the virtues of the victory of Chavez an out and out socialist. Here is the reaction of a citizen of Venezuela:

Como dije, no me interesan partidos politicos, solo mi realidad.
Que puedo decirte? Mucha propaganda politica?
El nivel de resentimiento aca de las clases bajas hacia cualquiera que perciban como clase mas alta, es absurdo. Chavez <Oops, English...>

A translation to English. Sorry for any typos and poetic license I took. I did it quickly:
"Like I said, party politics don't interest me, only my reality.
What can I tell you? Lots of political propaganda?
The level of resentment here of the lower classes toward anyone perceived as higher class, is absurd. Chavez has propagated a way of thinking that having money is bad, having your own business is bad, and having success in the sense of having people work for you, is bad. It's capitalist, it's bourgeois, oligarchy, pitiyanki (yankee pity) (I don't know what the fuck this is supposed to mean, but for the chavistas it's an insult).
What is good is working for the state. A good minimum salary. To be on a "mission." All subsized by the government. Everything regulated.
Would you vote for a president that mandates price through law? When you can't afford something, and he makes a law that says now the products cost X, and all of a sudden, you can afford it?
Chicken costs X, the French bread costs X, the coffee costs X, it can't cost any more.
Wonderful! How ingenious, this man does know how to govern, this president does have our interests in mind! Not like the opposition, which is white, which comes from a millionaire family, that has money and doesn't know what we go through. Yes, Chavez brought racism back to Venezuela, and anyone that says otherwise come here on bus or on the metro and you will see the looks you get. People have told me to go back to my country for being white and having straight black hair. I've lived in Venezuela my entire life, but "I have to go back to where I came from."
And from where do they get these prices? I don't know. From out of their asses...

It gets worse.

@ Hola desde México, tengo una pregunta, ¿Hay sospecha de fraude electoral? (http://www.reddit.com/r/vzla/comments/115g7t/hola_desde_m%C3%A9xico_tengo_una_pregunta_hay_sosp echa/c6jp60q)