Socialism is Slavery
If the State sent individuals with manacles every week to seize you, your wife or husband to toil unpaid for 12 or more hours, depending upon what you make, would you be content?
Your work will consist of serving non-working capable adults in their daily habits such as shopping for them or taking them shopping, driving them in your vehicle to the park, pools day care and doctor visits. See that they get to the cable company to order more channels, to get high speed Internet service and take them wherever else they wish to go. Additionally, cleaning off sidewalks of snow, maintaining common living areas, painting their rentals and picking up their garbage is also your job,
If fact anyone that obtains social services of any kind, you will work for them throughout your allotted work time. Every week 52 weeks a year, you, your husband or wife and working kids if any will do this under consequence without surcease.
You take it every payday when the Government decrees that you pay for non-working capable adults to sit on their bums, ride in taxis to shop, watch cable TV, use the Internet, live in paid housing and get health care you cannot afford. All those services in Vermont are worth about $40 to 45K a year. Are you making that much AFTER taxes?
Socialism is slavery. It takes by force leaving no choice. We fought a war over this very idea, did we not?
Archived in: Liberalism, Progressives, Socialism, Taxes, WelfareJanuary 31, 2009 at 10:10 pm | Trackback
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If the life of the working is so bad and the life of the welfare recipient so great, why aren’t more glad to give up their jobs? Your relatively childish understanding of social forces is causing you to overlook such obvious flaws in your analysis.
And before you go throwing around words like “slavery” please recall that slaves don’t have things like a bill of rights, separation of powers, or a vote. Acting like the mere act of paying taxes makes you a slave not only insults anyone touched by the brutal practice of actual slavery, it also insults the intelligence of your readers and makes you seem like you think only with your emotions.
PS - a little proofreading of your posts would go a long way.
Maybe more people don’t give up their jobs and go on welfare because they have PRIDE and would rather earn their own ways than depend on the government.
Separation of powers? I think that’s a fiction in these times. Obama dictates what he wants, the Democrat-controlled house approves it — at least so far. The Senate has approved his nominations, even a tax cheat for Secy of the Treasury — that sends such a positive and INSPIRATIONAL message. The Supreme Court seems to be securely in Obama’s pocket, dismissing case after case that questions his eligibility, on techicalities like standing. The citizens of this country have no standing? I thought we had “government of the people, by the people, for the people” — no more, I guess.
And the bill of rights. Obama wants restrictions on guns ownership — limiting 2nd amendment right. He wants to control who we listen to, telling the Republicans not to listen to Rush Limbaugh — 1st amendment. Freedom of the press — uh, given the behavior of the MSM during the campaign, I think that’s a moot question. Give him time, he’ll take care of the rest.
We may not be slaves of the government yet, but the day may be coming.
Welcome to Maine, CaliGirl!
Childish understanding of social forces, Zieg?
Your understanding of of social forces is comatose. When did blacks get the vote and how long afterwards came an organized civil rights movement that made a difference? What was their condition in the intervening years?
What were conditions like for the voters in steel mills and meat packing industries before an organized labor movement?
What’s a wage slave? In fact, discuss the social, emotional and mental “forces” that keep people shackled to their ways of life and status because of perceived risks and powerlessness.
You’re clueless. Go lecture someone else.
Great stuff Zeig, what do you think Obama is doing with the “tax cuts” for the middle class? Putting them on the dole, of course.
Economic slavery is the same set of chains as the real ones. Liberals are simply to dense to realize this fact.
Hotspur,
All I can say from my point of view is that Union activity were I work has been beneficial (over time) in terms of:
(a) providing proper decent ‘welfare facilities’ like areas to wash and change.
(b) continually putting pressure on the Company to uphold a fair and honest Health & Safety policy and plan.
(c) preventing where ever possible the unfair treatment of employees within the disciplinary system.
(d) encouraging employees to go and persue educational opportunities.
Obviously I have not counted obvious areas such as pay improvements or monitoring the performance of the Company pension fund in its role as a trustee.
I think, again from my personal experience, the senior Trades Union officials and Senior Management aren’t quite so old now and I think this in turn is leading to a weakening of the ‘them and us’ attitude that was so prevalent years ago.
Of course such attitudes are still very much around but perhaps aren’t quite so strident or obivous.
I hope I wasn’t misunderstood, Andy. The conditions for the cheapest resource (labor) in those years, was deplorable. Trade and industrial unionization was a good thing…and the only “but” is that it could only evolve into the kind of lunacy we see with US automakers.
“The Jungle” and “The Road to Wigan Pier” is all you need to understand where things stood.
PS, Andy:
Zieg’s point about the franchise and BofRights as the guarantee against any form of “slavery” was just ridiculous.
The supposed welfare “benefits” some recieve is just enough to keep the recipients barely satisfied and above the point of open rebellion. Those of us who work want more out of our lives and want more for our families. We are willing to work toward those ends.
The nefarious, Kennedy poodle Arthur Schlesinger said it…welfare is the price we pay for stability.
Lemme see, I think I have another can of worms around here somewhere.
Andy, my crank with the unions is with the lack of merit advancement and pay. There was a need as Hotspur noted for cleaning up the workplace.
Unions are as monolithic as government and as stratified as the CCCP. For that reason they are as corruptable as Blago, Rangel, Dodd and all the others lusting after power.
The human condition allows this, no preacher has ever changed it. S&M rags sell as well as the Bible. Welfare people want to live like that, otherwise they wouldn’t. You are where you wish to be.
I’m all for anarchy! How long would I survive, I don’t know, actually I don’t care. But I’d have a hell of a great time going!
Vermont Anarchist? I thought I heard explosions.
VW,
Anarchy? ‘Nuff Said.
Hotspur,
Totally agree. No company can really operate with the Union having too much power. A company has to be a partnership between management and workforce.
Rhod, Andy you got it. Kicking over the anthill is fun. All the swells, the yuppies, boomers and libbies that piss themselves when something goes bump in the night are fun to watch as they run around in circles.
Fascism appeals to them for it orders their lives, tells them what they can and cannot do. When one has no personal ethics, the state fills that void. Without this external prop, they’ll have a nervous breakdown. They’re oblivious to the fact that the state is amoral.
Give me the bare minimum of government, as supplied by the US Constitution, sans the 16th Amendment and shorten up the time period given in the 17th Amendment between election and inauguration, for Congress too.