Joseph Pecar
Socialism = Permanent "snowstorm" shortages
By Joseph Pecar
A picture on the Wall Street Journal's front-page of an empty northern Virginia supermarket's fruit section during a recent snowstorm gave Americans a vivid understanding of what it can be like to live under socialistic or communistic regimes.
Our temporary "shortage" of fruits and vegetables reminded me of my visit to Moscow in 1993. There I discovered that whereas items considered bare necessities — like fruits, vegetables, toilet paper etc., etc. — available in great abundance and variety in the capitalistic United States — were then virtually unavailable to the proletariat. Even in government office buildings, one was fortunate to find the only substitute for toilet paper to be scraps of paper torn from old newspapers placed in make shift triangular paper containers hung on restroom doors.
Although 1993 is not long ago, regrettably, because our public education system is so badly directed and our media so liberally biased, it seems few young Americans are even aware of how poorly the USSR, then the worlds leading communist government, was able to provide its people with what we consider necessities.
The powerful lesson that should be learned is that whereas under America's capitalism only something like a snowstorm causes such shortages, 17 years ago, in the most powerful Marxist-Communist regime the world has ever known, they were a way of life from which Russian citizens had no escape. This despite the fact that in the mid-1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's President, instituted Perestroika, a program "to restructure the Soviet political and economic policy to bring the Soviet Union up to economic par with capitalist countries such as Germany, Japan, and the U.S."
Even with Perestroika, "GUM," the State Department Store located on the eastern side of Moscow Square, rapidly became obsolete when a growing number of private Russian entrepreneurs opened kiosks on practically every busy street corner in Moscow.
Earlier in the 60's while on a trip to Berlin, I visited the Brandenburg gate after nightfall. This was before the Berlin Wall, erected by Communist puppet-czars to keep people in the eastern section from escaping to the western section, had been torn down. Never had I seen such a stark visual example of the devastating impact that socialism/communism can have on the weal of a country. Looking toward the east at night you could see no lights or activity. Turning around and looking to the west, you would have thought you were in Las Vegas or New York City. It was enough to make ones heart cry.
Anyone truly for social justice should ask themselves the question "Which government method provided the greatest benefit to the poor as well as the upper classes during the twentieth century?" Hands down the US capitalistic system of free enterprise and respect for the inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness reigned supreme over socialist and/or Communist forms of government. The US indisputably became the freest, wealthiest, and the most powerful and generous country in the world.
Thus, the last century serves as a conclusive laboratory test during which the efficacy of free democratic capitalistic and socialistic and tyrannical Marxist Communist countries can be compared. Towards the end of the century, most socialistic countries, those that did not resort to tyrannical force to make "socialism work," scrambled to privatize state entities such as the Deutsche Bundespost and other telephone systems.
In that same century, murderous Marxist Communist regimes, under tyrannical big-government leaders slaughtered over 150 MILLION people. Mao Tse-Tung alone killed 70 MILLION people. Inexplicably, Anita Dunn, Obama's White House communications director recently claimed that Mao was her favorite philosopher.
In short, the great lesson of the twentieth Century is that among governmental alternatives, there is no longer any need to guess. Capitalism succeeds. Socialism fails, and Marxist Communism fails and murders. Only at our peril should we neglect to teach young American's these lessons — or forget them ourselves!
Why are these historical facts and events especially important at this time? Because it is now clear the "change" Barak Obama promised was the transformation of the United States from a powerful flourishing free enterprise country to one suffering the miseries of tyrannically imposed big central government bureaucrats. Of course during his run for the presidency Obama did and still does his best to conceal his true stripes. But there can be no doubt. Obama is and always has been a "closet" socialist at best, or a "closet" Marxist Communist at worst. Please — no more mincing of words. He is what he is!
We should have been "tipped-off" to this predilection from the public comments made by his wife Michelle about "never being proud of her country" and the fact that as Paul Hollrah observes, "Obama has been mentored by, gravitated toward, and surrounded by the most dangerous sort of America-hating socialists, communists, and Marxists — from Saul Alinsky to Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, George Soros, and countless radical left college professors."
And since being elected, ignoring the fact that emulating the success of the United States has become a goal of rational people worldwide, Obama incomprehensibly jumps at every opportunity — especially during overseas junkets — to publicly show his disdain for America by apologizing for what he views as America's failings and misdeeds.
Whereas no outside force — not Germany, not Japan, not the USSR — could conquer America, in conjunction with the liberals in Congress, the sycophant liberal press, and the abuse of the power of the Presidency, this great Nation is systematically being destroyed.
We should not be fooled into believing that outlandish spending for health care, the banking or the automotive industries is motivated to help the people or those industries. Not on your life. As Rohm Emanuel so succinctly puts it, "never waste a serious crisis." No, it should be perfectly clear that Obama's dogged pursuit of these programs is motivated solely by his fiendish determination to destroy America's capitalism and in the process the democratic republic established by our Constitution. Think about it! .
© Joseph Pecar
March 16, 2010
A picture on the Wall Street Journal's front-page of an empty northern Virginia supermarket's fruit section during a recent snowstorm gave Americans a vivid understanding of what it can be like to live under socialistic or communistic regimes.
Our temporary "shortage" of fruits and vegetables reminded me of my visit to Moscow in 1993. There I discovered that whereas items considered bare necessities — like fruits, vegetables, toilet paper etc., etc. — available in great abundance and variety in the capitalistic United States — were then virtually unavailable to the proletariat. Even in government office buildings, one was fortunate to find the only substitute for toilet paper to be scraps of paper torn from old newspapers placed in make shift triangular paper containers hung on restroom doors.
Although 1993 is not long ago, regrettably, because our public education system is so badly directed and our media so liberally biased, it seems few young Americans are even aware of how poorly the USSR, then the worlds leading communist government, was able to provide its people with what we consider necessities.
The powerful lesson that should be learned is that whereas under America's capitalism only something like a snowstorm causes such shortages, 17 years ago, in the most powerful Marxist-Communist regime the world has ever known, they were a way of life from which Russian citizens had no escape. This despite the fact that in the mid-1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's President, instituted Perestroika, a program "to restructure the Soviet political and economic policy to bring the Soviet Union up to economic par with capitalist countries such as Germany, Japan, and the U.S."
Even with Perestroika, "GUM," the State Department Store located on the eastern side of Moscow Square, rapidly became obsolete when a growing number of private Russian entrepreneurs opened kiosks on practically every busy street corner in Moscow.
Earlier in the 60's while on a trip to Berlin, I visited the Brandenburg gate after nightfall. This was before the Berlin Wall, erected by Communist puppet-czars to keep people in the eastern section from escaping to the western section, had been torn down. Never had I seen such a stark visual example of the devastating impact that socialism/communism can have on the weal of a country. Looking toward the east at night you could see no lights or activity. Turning around and looking to the west, you would have thought you were in Las Vegas or New York City. It was enough to make ones heart cry.
Anyone truly for social justice should ask themselves the question "Which government method provided the greatest benefit to the poor as well as the upper classes during the twentieth century?" Hands down the US capitalistic system of free enterprise and respect for the inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness reigned supreme over socialist and/or Communist forms of government. The US indisputably became the freest, wealthiest, and the most powerful and generous country in the world.
Thus, the last century serves as a conclusive laboratory test during which the efficacy of free democratic capitalistic and socialistic and tyrannical Marxist Communist countries can be compared. Towards the end of the century, most socialistic countries, those that did not resort to tyrannical force to make "socialism work," scrambled to privatize state entities such as the Deutsche Bundespost and other telephone systems.
In that same century, murderous Marxist Communist regimes, under tyrannical big-government leaders slaughtered over 150 MILLION people. Mao Tse-Tung alone killed 70 MILLION people. Inexplicably, Anita Dunn, Obama's White House communications director recently claimed that Mao was her favorite philosopher.
In short, the great lesson of the twentieth Century is that among governmental alternatives, there is no longer any need to guess. Capitalism succeeds. Socialism fails, and Marxist Communism fails and murders. Only at our peril should we neglect to teach young American's these lessons — or forget them ourselves!
Why are these historical facts and events especially important at this time? Because it is now clear the "change" Barak Obama promised was the transformation of the United States from a powerful flourishing free enterprise country to one suffering the miseries of tyrannically imposed big central government bureaucrats. Of course during his run for the presidency Obama did and still does his best to conceal his true stripes. But there can be no doubt. Obama is and always has been a "closet" socialist at best, or a "closet" Marxist Communist at worst. Please — no more mincing of words. He is what he is!
We should have been "tipped-off" to this predilection from the public comments made by his wife Michelle about "never being proud of her country" and the fact that as Paul Hollrah observes, "Obama has been mentored by, gravitated toward, and surrounded by the most dangerous sort of America-hating socialists, communists, and Marxists — from Saul Alinsky to Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, George Soros, and countless radical left college professors."
And since being elected, ignoring the fact that emulating the success of the United States has become a goal of rational people worldwide, Obama incomprehensibly jumps at every opportunity — especially during overseas junkets — to publicly show his disdain for America by apologizing for what he views as America's failings and misdeeds.
Whereas no outside force — not Germany, not Japan, not the USSR — could conquer America, in conjunction with the liberals in Congress, the sycophant liberal press, and the abuse of the power of the Presidency, this great Nation is systematically being destroyed.
We should not be fooled into believing that outlandish spending for health care, the banking or the automotive industries is motivated to help the people or those industries. Not on your life. As Rohm Emanuel so succinctly puts it, "never waste a serious crisis." No, it should be perfectly clear that Obama's dogged pursuit of these programs is motivated solely by his fiendish determination to destroy America's capitalism and in the process the democratic republic established by our Constitution. Think about it! .
© Joseph Pecar
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