You can't increase individual liberties and freedoms by increasing the power of government by creating more agencies led by unelected people
You can't increase individual liberties and freedoms by increasing the power of government by creating more agencies led by unelected people
donttread (06-17-2019)
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Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
Admiral Ackbar (06-19-2019)
To me the quote and article spells it out. Socialism is like cancer there is pre cancer and then there are dozens of varieties of cancer. Some treatable, some not.. but in the end it is all cancer. Cancer is never good and Socialism in all its shades is immoral.
A system that lets us make our own decisions about our own lives is more moral than one that transfers them to powerful strangers. Freedom is better than coercion. Prosperity is more uplifting than poverty. "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries," Winston Churchill said in 1945. Let's not cede the moral high ground to people who tout utopian ideas that usually result in misery.
https://reason.com/2019/03/22/free-m...the-lesser-of/
"Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining"----Fletcher in The Outlaw Josey Wales
MisterVeritis (06-19-2019)
Socialism is a philosophy of misery because it is based on the flawed idea that a men are inherently good and that a wise and educated few can benevolently rule over everyone. As it is implemented, it demands that government power be the final authority in life.
The Chairman smiles down!
Full disclosure this was posted on another thread, but as this is the place where we are documenting how bad socialism sucks. I thought it was appropriate to repost. My apologies to the Chairman
"Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining"----Fletcher in The Outlaw Josey Wales
How Socialism destroyed Africa. Lot of Socialism there, therefore there is a lot of misery and suffering. Funny how that always seems to be the case.
Equating capitalism with colonialism, Africa’s nationalist leaders rejected it and adopted socialism in the 1960s. Foreign companies were nationalized, a string of state-owned enterprises were established and a plethora of state controls on rent, prices, imports and foreign exchange were imposed to capture the commanding heights of the economy. But nowhere in Africa was the socialist experiment successful. It was a miserable fiasco in country after country including Angola (under dos Santos), Benin (under Kerekou), Ethiopia (under Mengistu), Ghana (under Nkrumah), Guinea (under Toure), Mali (under Keita), Mozambique (under Chissano), Tanzania (under Nyerere), and Zambia, among others.
Last edited by Admiral Ackbar; 06-29-2019 at 01:00 PM.
"Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining"----Fletcher in The Outlaw Josey Wales
To be clear. If you support Socialism, you support Death and Misery.
The debate is over on that.
"Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining"----Fletcher in The Outlaw Josey Wales