[Rhodes22-list] Pointy end is the stern?

[Tootle]

Stan,

Your intructions never said the pointy end is the stern, ...

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and
independence.”  Abraham Lincoln





Tootle wrote:
> 
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Have you ever studied what Marxism is?  How socialism kills individual
> initiative?  
> 
> Go back and read some history.  Read the Communists Manifesto.  Then look
> at how well socialism has helped Eastern Europe and Western Europe for
> that matter.  The idea of socialism sounds good until ordinary people wait
> for the dole.  Until those that create wealth let the government do it. 
> Tell us how well National Socialism did in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy,
> and communism in the Soviet Union.
> 
> Hillary and Barack espouse socialism, which is not change, but forcing
> their views on others.  Coercion is what they advocate.  It is amazing for
> me to see people of Jewish ancestry tout socialism after what happened to
> their relatives in Germany and the Soviet Union. 
> 
> How can any person of Jewish ancestry believe that any form of Socialism
> will treat Jews differently that what has been demonstrated in the past
> 100 years?  Under capitalism as practiced in America, they have made
> substantial achievements.  They even build sailboats!
> 
> Study what goes on in Maine, where a city government disregards its
> citizens in general for a rock quarry.  This example is typical of
> government abusing its citizens.  Yet the 'citizen' complaining of the
> injustice is a proponent of more government.  He believes that government
> health care will be better run.  The truth is that it will not and more
> injustice will ensue.  I guarantee that more government means more
> bureaucratic decisions which screw ordinary citizens, in fact it screw
> everybody.
> 
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
> "It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that
> grip the imagination of others.  Rather, it is the values upon which our
> system is built."  J. William Fulbright
> 
> 
> 

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