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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
A rabbi/professor/lawyer lives under socialism..... and lives! Fun story, well done, too long to cut and paste here. Link Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | ||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
A good lesson and entertaining story. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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delicately calloused |
Good read. The truth is.......I am John Gault...... You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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Telecom Ronin |
If you have met anyone who grew up or lived in a socialist country they are normally very adamant capitalists and very appreciative of being in the US. My wife has the hammer and sickle on her birth cert and is as much a libratarian as I and her mother, who lives with us, really loves the US. Funny thing about her is she really likes Putin as well. | |||
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One of my Econ professsors in college was a Cuban refugee. He was a rabid free market guy. Hated communists. | |||
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/\/\/\....I worked with a few Cuban refugee's in Miami. Also worked alongside a German who fled East Germany in the late '50's. ********* "Some people are alive today because it's against the law to kill them". | |||
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| Unapologetic Old School Curmudgeon  |
I've worked with lots of foreign born guys. Iraq, Jordan, Russia, Canada, UK, Norway, Poland, Greece, Serbia, Albania, Mexico, Germany, etc. Then ones from the middle East and Serbia were Christians escaping the Muslims, and boy do they have stories of life in a Muslim country. This was pre 9-11, they used to tell us Americans all the time they were coming for us and we had no idea what we were dealing with. The guys from the socialist countries, even though they were nice modern high standard of living places, would always laugh at how stupid Americans are for voting in socialists and seeking out socialist policies. People would always ask them about how great it is in their former country and they would always say What do you think im doing here? Why would I bring my family here if it was so great were i was? They were staunch capitalists after seeing socialism in action, and believed the US was a better place for their families. And these were professionals, robot engineers and programmers, guys who were not scraping by. Only real complaint was from some of our UK friends who discovered you can't get beer here in every corner family restaurant... Lol. What's wrong with you damn colonists over here? I want a beer! Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day | |||
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My father was a U. S. diplomat, posted behind the Iron Curtain while I attended college in Germany. When I used to go "home" during school breaks, it would never fail to impress me how grey, dirty and dingy everything was. The people seemed beaten and depressed. There certainly was no desire on the part of people to succeed. Well, since all motivation to succeed had been removed, can you blame them? I actually found the people to be delightful, warm and friendly. It was just the oppressive government that made life miserable under communism. You can't truly call yourself "peaceful" unless you are capable of great violence. If you're not capable of great violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless. NRA Benefactor/Patriot Member | |||
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| You don’t fix faith, River. It fixes you.  |
"Only 4 more to go." That hit home. Can you really imagine that happening here in the US? no way.... Right ???  ---------------------------------- "If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.." - Thomas Sowell | |||
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This is a very amusing as well as enlightening article. I have spent a lot of time in communist and ex-communist countries, but this article describes socialism in its more pure, non-totalitarian form. Vastly better than communism, but it still kills the soul as well as any motivation to work. _________________________ “ What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.”— Lord Melbourne | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
But makes up for it by redirecting those energies and creativity into cheating. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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When I read the cheating comment in the article I was immediately reminded of mention of the same thing in a book I’d just read about the Soviet Union. The author pointed out that when people must break the law just to survive, they soon lose respect for all law. ► 6.4/93.6 ___________ “We are Americans …. Together we have resisted the trap of appeasement, cynicism, and isolation that gives temptation to tyrants.” — George H. W. Bush | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
It’s a phenomena I found especially prevalent in San Diego, the lengths people would go to cheat, even, or may be especially, in seemingly trivial things, and even to rigging where their kids pretended to live so they could go to the school they wanted, all sorts of things. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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