Socialists Have No Faith in People's Ability to Take Care of Themselves!
When I was just a kid I found out that, in order to have any money, I had to, first, use my head and figure out a way to earn the money, and second, to work hard. I pushed non-motorized lawn mowers in the summer to make a little spending money. I shoveled sidewalks in the winter. In the fall I picked fruit and berries. I carried newspapers all year long. I worked to earn the money I got. There were a number of kids in my neighborhood who refused to work. They believed that the world owed them as much as I was earning. Therein lies the problem with socialism. "From each according to his abilities and hard work, to each according to his lazy bum good for nothing needs!"
Thomas Jefferson said:
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
He also said:
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government."
This long before the idiots, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels invented a system where the capable are forced to work to take care of those who refuse to use their capabilities. Who, in your mind is the greater man, Thomas Jefferson or Karl Marx? If you answered Karl Marx then I have no use for you and despise your attempts to take from the productive people to give to those who do not produce! I despise socialism and despise Communism most of all!
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3 Comments
Post a CommentJefferson was one of the greatest humanists of all time. He gave new meaning to "social responsibility". This blog distorts Jefferson and his positions on many things. Context...please!
JEHOVAH - please don't use the term "anarchist." Please use the term "Libertarian." Anarchy is a system of rule by brute force of the strongest, Libertarianism is a sytem with strict limits on the rulers of what they can and can't do while ruling!
Actually, I've heard hard-line Marxist-Leninists and Stalinists say the same thing that some conservatives say: "Those who do not work, do not eat." What was practiced in Stalin's forced-labor camps is a great example of this. Communism and corporatism both view people as products and units of production, and nothing more. Pure capitalism only exists on paper, and big business and big government have been on the same side most of the time.