A bit of interesting reading
Here's some interesting reading for you. As I read it I see a number of similarities to today's America AND to the America the extremeist left seems to be trying to create. I'm not going to tell you where it came from. You'll have to come back another day to learn that.(i) Limitation of private property through progressive taxation, heavy inheritance taxes, abolition of inheritance through collateral lines (brothers, nephews, etc.) forced loans, etc.
(ii) Gradual expropriation of landowners, industrialists, railroad magnates and shipowners, partly through competition by state industry, partly directly through compensation in the form of bonds.
(iii) Confiscation of the possessions of all emigrants and rebels against the majority of the people.
(iv) Organization of labor or employment of proletarians on publicly owned land, in factories and workshops, with competition among the workers being abolished and with the factory owners, in so far as they still exist, being obliged to pay the same high wages as those paid by the state.
(v) An equal obligation on all members of society to work until such time as private property has been completely abolished. Formation of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
(vi) Centralization of money and credit in the hands of the state through a national bank with state capital, and the suppression of all private banks and bankers.
(vii) Education of the number of national factories, workshops, railroads, ships; bringing new lands into cultivation and improvement of land already under cultivation -- all in proportion to the growth of the capital and labor force at the disposal of the nation.
(viii) Education of all children, from the moment they can leave their mother's care, in national establishments at national cost. Education and production together.
(ix) Construction, on public lands, of great palaces as communal dwellings for associated groups of citizens engaged in both industry and agriculture and combining in their way of life the advantages of urban and rural conditions while avoiding the one-sidedness and drawbacks of each.
(x) Destruction of all unhealthy and jerry-built dwellings in urban districts.
(xi) Equal inheritance rights for children born in and out of wedlock.
(xii) Concentration of all means of transportation in the hands of the nation.
Here's an idiot that thinks The US has lost the war in Iraq and is glad of it.
Typical America Hating Idiot
It took me three tries to come up with a text for that link. After reading his idiotic BS filled editorial my first ones were so vulgar they even surprised me.
Let's see what you think.
A Couple of Cowboys Riding Point.
A great hero has left us. Ronald Reagan, the man who defeated The Soviet Union and ended The Cold War without firing a shot has gone on. We'll miss him.
As I watch various tributes to his life I notice something. A lot of people called him a cowboy. They use it as a derogatory term, not truly understanding that it is among the greatest of compliments.
They called him a cowboy because to them a cowboy is someone who goes off half cocked, jumping into something he doesn't understand, they called him that because they thought he didn't understand about the Soviet Union. They called him that because they thought that his actions might upset the delicate balance of MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction). They were never so wrong, on all counts except one.
He WAS a cowboy.
When a cowboy sees a wrong being done he steps in and fixes it. It's just part of the cowboy way. Ronald Reagan saw the Soviet Union as what it was an, Evil Empire. An empire of subjugation. An empire that created a hideous lifestyle for it's citizens while a few political elites lived high and ate good. An empire where freedom was a lost hope.
Like a true cowboy Ronald Reagan set out to end this Evil Empire and he did. In the last few days even the the most liberal folks have given him credit for that, or lambasted him for it as is their wont.
A cowboy will to fight for right even when everyone else runs away or tries to tell him he shouldn't. That was Ronald Reagan.
Today the President of the United States is fighting another fight against Evil. This time it's an Axis of Evil. This time it's a group of people who want to take away your freedoms and force you to live by their religious beliefs or just kill you.
And again The President of The United States, George W Bush is being called a cowboy. And again they are right in that one thing. George W Bush IS a cowboy. A cowboy who understands right and wrong on a basic level that these elitist can't and is going to do what is necessary to see that right wins.
Belief in, those values, and a willingness to live by those values is the reason why the cowboy remains to meet the outlaw at "high noon", even if he must fight alone while everyone else runs, whines about how he might make the bad guy mad, or worries about how much money they will lose in illegal contracts the outlaw used to pay them. While everyone else is making excuses, the cowboy steps forward with one aim: to defeat the evil, for the good of the town.
Yes George W Bush is a cowboy. Yes Ronald Reagan was a cowboy. Those who try to use the term as an insult don't understand what a real cowboy is any more than they understand the true evil George Cowboy Bush is fighting against.
History will show that these two cowboys rode point, showing the rest of us where we should go, even though many of us (France, The UN, Liberals, peacenics) are too stupid to follow.
The world needs a lot more cowboys.
