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Originally posted by sonofliberty1776
That is the problem. All people are created equal, but not all put out an equal amount of effort. If I work 6 days a week 50-70 hours a week to get the things I want, why should I be forced to donate part of my very life to support those who WILL NOT do the same? If I work all day, and you play video games all day, why should you benefit from my labor?
Originally posted by Unvarnished
reply to post by nightstalker46
If there is anything socialism promises, its the equality of every human being.
National Bolshevism is a political movement that claims to combine elements of nationalism and Bolshevism.[1] It is often anti-capitalist in tone, and sympathetic towards certain nationalist forms of communism and socialism. Nevertheless, National Bolshevism is separate and distinct from National Communism.
Today, Russia is considered to be the center of National Bolshevism, and almost all of the National Bolshevik parties and organizations in the world are connected to it. Amongst the leading practitioners and theorists of National Bolshevism are Aleksandr Dugin and Eduard Limonov, who leads the unregistered and banned National Bolshevik Party (NBP) in Russia.[2] Influenced heavily by the idea of geopolitics, current Russian National Bolshevik movements propose a merger between Russia, Europe and parts of Asia, in a union to be known as Eurasia.
The Franco-Belgian Parti Communautaire National-Européen shares National Bolshevism's desire for the creation of a united Europe, as well as many of the NBP's economic ideas. French political figure Christian Bouchet has also been influenced by the idea.
Originally posted by SprocketUK
reply to post by nightstalker46
There has been a systematic destruction of most social programs in Europe, and its true that the costs have spiralled...When you look into it a little more closely you can see why.
Since the mid 80s governments have been closing the state run programs and replacing them with privately funded ones, every arm of the NHS is now beholden in some form, to private enterprise, which means that the costs to the state rise (to increase profitability) while the conditions for the workers and the service to the users get worse.
That's just one example, but it goes right across the board, until we have something like 75p in every pound spent ending up in the hands of private companies who inevitably dodge their taxes.
There is a sneaky, hidden Friedmanite cabal trying to stop all government social care so that the very richest can pay even less tax, and if you can't see it, then I'm either utterly useless at explaining it or you choose not to see it.
Originally posted by ldyserenity
reply to post by ThirdEyeofHorus
I really don't care what it is it stinks to high heaven. As they say.
It sucks and there needs to be something done about it.
I have already decided as illegal as it is I am never ever sending one red cent to the government ever again. I will go to prison I really don't care! I am keeping every single dime of my income, I will never work at an on the books job ever again!
Originally posted by NWOPrimate
reply to post by ThirdEyeofHorus
K... you already pay taxes... only your government uses your tax money for other things. In the case of the US.. it's spying, creating war, intimidating smaller governments into taking american contracts, it's by creating a bureaucratic maze... Again, if your government managed it's money better... (i'm going to re-word here) you could pay the same amount of taxes as you do now, only they would provide you with more services.
Better yet, they could cut our taxes. That would be better.
Originally posted by NWOPrimate
reply to post by ThirdEyeofHorus
you could pay the same amount of taxes as you do now, only they would provide you with more services.
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by ldyserenity
Except fascism is socialism.
Originally posted by NWOPrimate
reply to post by ThirdEyeofHorus
K... you already pay taxes... only your government uses your tax money for other things. In the case of the US.. it's spying, creating war, intimidating smaller governments into taking american contracts, it's by creating a bureaucratic maze... Again, if your government managed it's money better... (i'm going to re-word here) you could pay the same amount of taxes as you do now, only they would provide you with more services.
Originally posted by daskakik
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by ldyserenity
Except fascism is socialism.
Except that it isn't. You might as well say christians are muslims or americans are mexican. Let's just change the definitions of things so that they fit our argument.
Hey accepting ignorance is denying ignorance.
The Nazis advocated a strong, central government under the Führer, for defending Germany and the Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans),
Hans J. Eysenck was an outspoken opponent of what he perceived as the authoritarian abuses of the left and right, and accordingly he believed that, with this T axis, he had found the link between nazism and communism: according to Eysenck's research findings, members of both ideologies were tough-minded. Central to Eysenck's thesis was the claim that tender-minded ideologies were democratic and friendly to human freedoms, while tough-minded ideologies were aggressive and authoritarian.
Although he was a longstanding opponent of nazism, having left Nazi Germany to live in Britain, Eysenck was not shy in attacking communism, noting the anti-Semitic prejudices of the Russian communist government, the luxurious lifestyles of the USSR's leaders despite their talk about equality and the poverty of their people, and the Orwellian "doublethink" of East Germany's naming itself the German Democratic Republic despite being "one of the most undemocratic regimes in the world today."[7] Accordingly, he carried out studies on nazism and communist groups, finding members of both groups to be more dominant, and more aggressive, than control groups.[6]
Originally posted by intrepid
Originally posted by Riposte
No, it is not compassionate to steal from someone, skim off 80% and then hand it out to poor people.
What are you talking about? I'm Canadian. That means one of the most heavily taxed people here and my taxes aren't 30%.
PRESIDENT'S PRIVATE SECTOR SURVEY ON COST CONTROL
A REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT
.....Resistance to additional income taxes would be even more widespread if people were aware that:
* One-third of all their taxes is consumed by waste and inefficiency in the Federal Government as we identified in our survey.
* Another one-third of all their taxes escapes collection from others as the underground economy blossoms in direct proportion to tax increases and places even more pressure on law abiding taxpayers, promoting still more underground economy-a vicious cycle that must be broken.
* With two-thirds of everyone's personal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100 percent of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal debt and by Federal Government contributions to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services which taxpayers expect from their Government.....
www.uhuh.com...
....over 40%, is owed to the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, and to other government accounts. The remaining 60% of the Debt is privately held by individuals, corporations, states, and foreign governments. As of November 2007, Japan ($580 billion), China ($390 billon) and the United Kingdom ($320 bilion) are the biggest foreign holders of our Debt.... www.brillig.com...
New money does not appear magically in equal percentages in all people's bank accounts or under their mattresses. Money spreads unevenly, and this process has varying effects on individuals, depending on whether they receive early or late access to the new money.
...One person does not benefit at the expense of another unless there has been fraud. The "pie of social value" has grown because there are two winners. The conceptual problem begins with a fixed social pie.
Mises argued that the losses of the late-coming losers are the source of income for the early arrival winners. This inescapably identifies the monetary system as a zero-sum game.... www.lewrockwell.com...
...Over the past several decades, those with huge amounts of money and power have been busy rigging the game so that the rest of the money and power slowly but surely funnels into their hands.... Today, the big banks, the big corporations and the federal government are all in bed with one another and it is average Americans that always lose out.....
[THIS IS THE SIGNIFICANT STATISTIC: cv]
#1 In the United States today, the richest one percent of all Americans have a greater net worth than the bottom 90 percent combined.....
Those pretty green slips of paper in your wallet commonly known as U.S. dollars are Federal Reserve Notes. Bank scrip. The Fed can print as much of it as it wants or needs to. With this in mind, consider that fully eighty percent (80%) of U.S. Treasuries (U.S. government debt) sold in 2009 were bought by the Fed because there were no other willing buyers. factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com...
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
Yes, it is!!!!!! Forget the denying ignorance slogan please when spouting disinformation like that. You bought into the leftist lie that nazism was far right. It isn't and never was.
Cheezus, how old are you?
The gvt doesnt "want" more money because "the poor people deserve is"....fact is that the poor people who are lacking employment, health insurance etc... AS A WHOLE are damaging to the society/economy.
A economy can not thrive and bloom if, say, 25% of people are ***ss poor and homeless. The poor people DO INDEED cost the society money....
Dumbing Down America
by Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld
I am often asked to name those educators responsible for the... decline of literacy in America....
After twenty-five years of research, I can state with complete confidence that the prime mover in all of teis was none other than John Dewey who is usually characterized as the father of progressive education. Yet the change of the teaching of reading is probably Dewey's greatest contribution to the tranformation of American education from an academically oriented process to a social one.
Dewey's philosophy had evolved from Hegelian idealism to socialist materialism, and the purpose of the school was to show how education could be changed to produce little socialists and collectivists instead of little capitalists and individualists. It was expected that these little socialists, when they became voting adults, would dutifully change the American economic system into a socialist one.
In order to do so he analyzed the traditional curriculum that sustained the capitalist, individualistic system and found what he believed was the sustaining linchpin -- that is, the key element that held the entire system together: high literacy. To Dewey, the greatest obstacle to socialism was the private mind that seeks knowledge in order to exercise its own private judgment and intellectual authority. High literacy gave the individual the means to seek knowledge independently. It gave individuals the means to stand on their own two feet and think for themselves. This was detrimental to the "social spirit" needed to bring about a collectivist society. Dewey wrote in Democracy and Education, published in 1916..... www.ordination.org...
Originally posted by daskakik
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
Yes, it is!!!!!! Forget the denying ignorance slogan please when spouting disinformation like that. You bought into the leftist lie that nazism was far right. It isn't and never was.
No, you bought into the rightist lie that nazism was far left. This is were we go back back and forth saying "yes it is" and "no it isn't". While governments keep doing what they have always done.
I say we go with what the ideals of each form of government are as their definition and not what leaders have done in their names since these have been known to be less than truthful.