Posted by
rycK on Monday, October 16, 2006 4:13:28 PM
This post is to complement the recent posts of grampus and others with my views.
http://grampus.townhall.com/g/c82672a4-e4b9-436c-887a-16086a4c779c&comments=true#comments
We have to look carefully at the goals and aims and outcomes of Liberal Democrats and others when they talk about the poor and how they should be handled.
[1] The Marxists never cared about the poor unless they could be persuaded to die for one of their sorry causes in war. In peace, the poor are useless mouths left to starve or marginalized in places where they cannot vote. North Korea does not care if their poor starve and nether do the Liberal Democrats. Millions starve in Africa and the Liberal Democrats give no criticism of the dictators there. Liberals praise Castro and Kim as they did Stalin and Mao.
[2] If you want to look at the poor of the world then begin by sorting out the poorest countries by the form of government they will tolerate. The Marxists are ones who can easily be identified as having the poorest of the poor. Look at PRC and about 30 selected garden spots in Africa for proof. North Korea is a prime example of what the far left, adored by the Clintons, can produce without interference from capitalism. Cuba is another example. Mexico is an example of 100% corruption. Mexico only exists as a state because of the money illegal aliens send back home. No wonder they want to put in their case before the UN to block the building of the fence along the US border with Mexico. Their political and social existences are threatened by minimizing crime from their citizens.
[3] Now, the socialist countries, for the most part, have few poor compared to India or China or Indonesia, but they also have removed any hope of owing property, a car or any way to escape the minimal living conditions supplied. No poor person in Sweden or Holland will be able to own property, become an entrepreneur or other or make it up to the upper middle class. This goes for most of Europe. Most socialist states have very high taxes approaching 70%, the subsidized housing they are given and public transportation. The options for attainment of wealth have been completely removed not because of hate, but because of economic reasons. When you have high taxes, the expense of keeping the economy going makes everyone subject to moderate or substandard living standards. There is no economic future in such places. Those with talent tend to leave. Unemployment in Europe is much higher than the US so many try to leave to have a better life. Liberals would reduce the US to the same pitiful social position as Europe. Socialism tends to produce a low class society.
[4] In places in the Middle East, where poverty runs rampant and is the norm, the poor and rich both tolerate dictatorial government in the forms of monarchies and such. Religious factors and totalitarian government make beggars out of their citizens. The vast bulk of the wealth in such countries is held by the leaders. Saddam Hussein owned everything and the state Bank of Iraq was his private bank account. A very few own everything in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, and other kingdoms in the Middle East.
[5] The Russian poor are amongst the most pitiful in the world and Marxism did exactly nothing for them in the last 90 years except get them killed in wars or murdered by the KGB. Today, Russia is hopelessly poor with little or no chance of advancement to the middle classes. There are 100 millionaires in Moscow today thanks to the Russian Mafia and government corruption. Crime syndicates now run Russia.
[6] There are a billion poor Chinese. There is no money for anything for them. The other 300,000,000 are now well off due to the curious admixture of Marxism and capitalism. There are 700,000,000 poor Indians, a great fraction thereof who starve annually. Out of a billion Muslims, 950,000,000 are very poor.
So, how would a US Democrat make use of this information?? Why to use the same tactics as the Marxists do!
The Democrat in the US firstly uses racism and invites a corresponding attack on the ‘rich’ and corporations to place blame. The rich and corporations, we learn, are spending the future of the poor. They preach justice. The problem here is that the Liberal Democrats actually subsidize the poor and ensure their ongoing status as being subservient to the parts of government in firm control of the Liberal Democrats. They cause poverty with misdirected social programs that tend to work for more poor, as intended in their strategy. Welfare and its associated programs are the biggest single source of votes for the left in the US. The teachers unions are next and the Liberal Democrats view the medical community as their next victim. They have no hopes with the military or the corporate world, whom they have alienated. The Liberal Democrats have no problem with flunkout rates in schools, low grades, crime in schools and more. They never complain about low test scores or school grade averages for minorities. They do complain that whites have higher scores on standardized tests. They are less vocal when it is learned that Asians have better scores than whites. The only response the liberal teachers unions have is: give us more time, more money and more teachers and aids and counselors and on and on. When confronted with the dismal academic performances of certain schools or teachers, they will not accede to dismiss a single incompetent teacher. Academic performance of minorities is not in their best interest. They cannot tolerate standardized tests for teachers that would prompt many to call for their dismissal for incompetence. That would lead to a loss of votes. Knowing that their black victims cannot compete for reasons that are mostly inflicted by Liberal Democrats, the left openly confirms that affirmative action programs, set-asides, quotas and civil rights laws, rules and jobs must be given to non-whites as political rewards. They stigmatize their victims and erode their future achievements but accuse others of doing so. They are parasites upon society.
The Liberal Democrats encourage racism and racial hatred by agitating the black communities of the US with all sorts of social programs. It is obvious that they would lose nearly all power if the black vote would be split as the unions have.
The liberal Democrats openly encourage illegal aliens to ignore the tax laws and wish to make them instant citizens with no penalties for their crimes of not filing state and federal tax returns. They subsidize crime in this way. Illegal aliens can supply sorely need votes in the future. “Today we march; tomorrow we vote!!”
The Liberal Democrats encourage drug addiction, sloth and crime by their continual use of the taxpayer’s monies to try to legalize drug use, minimize law enforcement of drug crimes through use of evidence rules, lower or suspend prison sentences, and give out pardons to know criminals. They continually fight for lower drug crime penalties, decriminalizing drugs and the need for programs such as needle exchanges. They foster endless appeals in the courts to free criminals. Social workers are not allowed to report crimes. In many cities, Illegal aliens are not stopped by the police by law.
We bunch all this in with the adulation of Marxism and the continual harping for laws that follow the Manifesto such as confiscatory inheritance taxes, high progressive taxes, state ownership or control of more land and businesses, socialized medicine, complete control of education, the media and transportation.
We can then add the adulation and constant support for the enemies of the US such as the Communists in Cuba, South America, North Korea, Africa and elsewhere. They support Islamo-Fascism and terror in any form they can by using the ruse that is protecting our rights.
Given the chance, the left will raise taxes as high as they can, destroy as many corporations as possible, encourage immorality, encourage and supply drugs and addiction and phony rehabilitation programs and more. All this happens with other people’s tax money. They spend tax money to buy votes.
Let us all recognize how the left-liberal politicians work the poor in this country for votes and political powers. Nobody but a loser would willingly submit to their phony economics and job programs. Only a dunce would truly believe in the liberal Democrats and their propaganda.