Are We There Yet?
Norman Thomas, the six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America said “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”
While the U.S. focused on defeating the foreign threat of Communism, we were not watching the domestic threat. The government has been undermining our liberties for years, and the pace has picked up remarkably within the last few months. Instead of assigning blame, however, we should see just how far we have come. The best way to illustrate this is to look at Karl Marx’s Ten Planks of Communism, found in the Communist Manifesto. Written in 1848, the Ten Planks were the steps necessary to defeat a capitalist society, replacing it with a communist government.
(from the Jeremiah Project, italics mine)
- Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.
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The courts have interpreted the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1868) to give the government far more “eminent domain” power than was originally intended. Under the rubric of “eminent domain” and various zoning regulations, land use regulations by the Bureau of Land Management property taxes, and “environmental” excuses, private property rights have become very diluted. As a result, private property in lands, vehicles, and other forms are seized almost every day in this country under the “forfeiture” provisions of the RICO statutes and the so-called War on Drugs. Private owners of property are required to get permission from government relative to the use of their property. - A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
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The 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, 1913 (which some scholars maintain was never properly ratified), the Social Security Act of 1936, Joint House Resolution 192 of 1933, and various State income taxes established this major Marxist coup in the United States many decades ago. These taxes continue to drain the lifeblood out of the American economy and greatly reduce the accumulation of desperately needed capital for future growth, business starts, job creation, and salary increases. - Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
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Another Marxist attack on private property rights is in the form of Federal & State estate taxes and other inheritance taxes, which have abolished or at least greatly diluted the right of private property owners to determine the disposition and distribution of their estates upon their death. (more…)
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Ten Planks of Communism
(From Uhuh.com)
Posted below is a comparison of the original ten planks of the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx in 1848, along with the American adopted counterpart of each of the planks, The American people have truly been “buried in Communism” by their own politicians of both the Republican and Democratic parties. One other thing to remember, Karl Marx was stating in the Communist Manifesto that these planks will test whether a country has become commmunist or not. If they are all in effect and in force the country IS communist.
1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rent to public purpose.
The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1868), and various zoning, school & property taxes. Also the Bureau of Land Management. (more…)
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Economics and Bodily Functions
A Different Look at Economic Systems
Your body functions are almost totally on autopilot. When you eat breakfast, you do not have to spend hours consciously telling your body to digest the food and then tell it what nutrients to send where. If you exercise, you do not have to monitor the amount of oxygen in your bloodstream, or decide at what rate your heart should beat. There is no need to remember to breathe. If there was, how could you sleep?
You simply eat pop-tarts, watch Bullwinkle, or whatever it is that you do while these remarkably complex functions carry on automatically. Your digestive system knows not only when you are hungry, but maintains proper nutrition levels for the trillions of cells that make up your body. How would you know when your heart needed more potassium, or your shoulder muscles needed some extra protein? Can you imagine a species that would have to devote thought to these basic survival instincts? That creature would not last long enough to make a fossil.
Now to the point: an economic system is just like a human body. Either you can let it run itself, or you can try to control it. Consider two examples:
Ours is an economy driven by prices. While you may not like prices, they are actually an incredible thing. When a car manufacturer makes a new model, they determine a price based on the money invested in the production of that vehicle (parts and labor). Consumers may like the features of the vehicle and feel that it is worth the price. If it is too expensive, or they do not like the features, they will not buy the vehicle. A strong demand shows the manufacturer they are in line with what consumers want. A lack of demand indicates that either the price is too high, or the model is unpopular. To stay in business, the company would have to modify future models.
Prices are a way of communicating what the consumers want. Prices also encourage consumers and producers to be efficient – you probably use a lot less gasoline when it is three dollars per gallon than when it was one dollar. The system works wonders if it is free from interference by the government. The free market, therefore, is like the cells in your body – millions of consumers functioning autonomously.
Now take the communist economy – it is like the species that has to think about every function in its body. In the Soviet Union, the government literally controlled everything. With no prices to govern the economy, manufacturers made too much of some products and not enough of others. People would stand in line for hours or perhaps days for boots while tomatoes wasted away in warehouses. There was no mechanism to monitor the demand or the quality of products; the consumers were simply stuck with what they had. The decisions for hundreds of millions of consumers were made by a handful of bureaucrats in Moscow.
The quality of life was drastically lower in the Soviet Union than in the United States. Because of prices, Americans had better products and were far more efficient than their communist counterparts.
The government knows how many tomatoes you need about as well as you know how much vitamin C to give one particular cell in your body. The free market works wonders, if left to function on its own. Our system is not perfect – we need major reform in certain areas. But we can be certain that government interference (like subsidies or universal health care) will throw a wrench into the greatest economy in history.
Chris Carter is the host of “Unto the Breach with Crushing Chris Carter.”
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