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Sassy

Got this from Harry51 today...

"We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism."

Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1959



BTW, MtnDon - I liked the tax story too, didn't really care who had written it - just passed it on as it was sent to me...  interesting that it wasn't the person it was supposedly quoted from...  that happens all the time, tho - that's usually why I check news stories from several sources & still, sometimes get it wrong...  & no, I don't usually check Snopes as they are no more reliable than anyone else - just a couple who started checking out things for veracity - but they have their own agenda, also...  and it may not even be a couple doing this, who knows?   [noidea' d*
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MountainDon

Liberalizing concealed carry laws won't lead to a return to the Wild West -- though it wouldn't be bad if it did. ... in 19th Century cattle towns, homicide was confined to transient males who shot each other in saloon disturbances. The per capital robbery rate was 7% of modern New York City's. The burglary rate was 1%. Rape was unknown.
-- David Kopel - quoted in the Wall Street Journal, February 28, 1994 in "Have Gun, Will Eat Out"
Just because something has been done and has not failed, doesn't mean it is good design.

Pox Eclipse

"The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty — and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies. " 

~~H.L. Mencken

Sonoran

Quote from: Sassy on November 19, 2008, 02:33:06 PM
Taxes explained

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors,
is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get
the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them
for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact,
they
might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat
friendlier.



I like this story.  I think that it is funny how things work, especially that the general public complains that the wealthy don't pay enough for taxes.  They are forgetting one important thing...who runs the businesses?  Lets place higher taxes on the people who employ us!!!  Did you hear that they cancelled our Christmas bonus!! They are so greedy it makes me sick... d*
Individuality: You are all unique, just like everybody else.


glenn kangiser

Gun control is a good eye and a steady hand.
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Sonoran

Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. ...voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

Hermann Goering. Hitler's Reich-Marshall.
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glenn kangiser

No fair -- you have been looking.... [crz]
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muldoon

"he was pullin... and i was pullin... and my heart felt so big"

I'm 30 years older than the lil one who said this to describe a first fishing trip, and to this day I couldn't describe it any better than that. 


glenn kangiser

Great thought - I was there many years ago
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MountainDon

Big Bang Theory:  S&W 500 Magnum

Fast Food: Mallards, woodcock, doves

        - Ted Nugent
Just because something has been done and has not failed, doesn't mean it is good design.

glenn kangiser

The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses... This little coterie...run our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen...seizes...our executive officers...legislative bodies...schools...
courts...newspapers and every agency created for the public protection."
N.Y. Mayor, John Hylan
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muldoon


"Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalised, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism" -
Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867

glenn kangiser

Ain't that the truth.  Here we are Karl.
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muldoon

Quote from the past. 

QuoteYet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.

    Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men. True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence.

    They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish. The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.





source :  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2009/01/obama-roosevelt.html

Redoverfarm

The Socialist Party candidate for President of the US , Norman Thomas, said this in a 1944 speech: "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." He went on to say:  "I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform."




ScottA


John_C

If we aren't careful we will end up with socialism.

[slap]

Too late !

Windpower

"Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves . . . I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God I will rout you out!"

President Andrew Jackson"

Who got the last laugh here

bastards




Often, our ignorance is not as great as our reluctance to act on what we know.

John_C

QuoteWho got the last laugh here

Must be the bankers.  He's not laughing on the bill and he certainly wouldn't be laughing at the current situation  >:(


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Redoverfarm

I am not sure whether anyone has seen this but it holds alot of truth.


Catching
Wild
Pigs 


A chemistry professor in a large college
had some exchange students in the class. One day
while the class was in the lab the Professor
noticed one young man (exchange student) who
kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his
back hurt. 

The professor asked the
young man what was the matter. The  student
told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He
had been shot while fighting communists in his
native country who were trying to overthrow his
country's government and install a new communist
government. 

In the midst of his
story he looked at th e professor and asked a
strange question. He asked, 'Do you know how to
catch wild pigs?' 

The professor
thought it was a joke and asked for the punch
line. The young man said this was no joke. 'You
catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in
the woods and putting corn on the ground. The
pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat
the free corn. When they are used to coming
every day, you put a fence down one side of the
place where they are used to coming. When they
get used to the fence, they begin to eat the
corn again and you put up another side of the
fence. They get used
to that
and start to eat again. You continue until you
have all four sides of the fence up with a gate
in The last side. The pigs, who are used to the
free corn, start to come through the gate to
eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the
whole herd. 

Suddenly the wild pigs
have lost their freedom. They run around and
around inside the fence, but they are caught.
Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They
are so used to it that they have forgotten how
to forage in the woods for themselves, so they
accept their captivity. 

The young
man then told the professor that is exactly what
he sees happening to America . The government
keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps
spreading the free corn out in the form of
programs such as supplemental income, tax credit
for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy
subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP),
welfare, medicine, drugs, etc.. While we
continually lose our freedoms -- just a little
at a time. 

One should always
remember: There is no such thing as a free
lunch! Also, a politician will never provide a
service for you cheaper than you can do it
yourself. 

Also, if you see that
all of this wonderful government 'help' is a
problem confronting the future of democracy in
America , you might want to send this on to your
friends. If you think the free ride is essential
to your way of life then you will probably
delete this email, but God help you when the
gate slams shut! 


 
Keep
your eyes on the newly elected politicians who
are 
about
to slam the gate on America . 


tanya

Again I prefer socialism to facism and I see a lot more facist policies being pushed on Americans than socialist. The problem is they look like socialist policies until the gate is closed then what?  Once the gate closes the facists will be saying now for your free corn you must work forty hours a week for the welfare office, we don't need to develop jobs or training programs because we have been giving you free corn now work or go to jail.  The people need the free corn because the corporate strategy and govt officials have taken our jobs and sent them overseas where the people are already working for the bare minimum of corn and their govt.s already have closed the gate.  These policies are facist not socialist.  As we spend 10 billion a DAY in Iraq American citizens sit and wonder how to put food onthe table.  I don't see ANY socialist nations in Iraq and I have not heard that a single socialist country has felt the HUGE effects of the current worldwwide recession.  In fact the nations that were already providing basic services to their citizens are the ones the least affected.  I am not conviced the democrats are pushing a socialist agenda I think it is a facist agenda in socialist wrapping. 
Peresrverance, persistance and passion, keys to the good life.

Sassy

Great analogy, Red - true whether you want to call it fascism or socialism!

Now to change the subject, you may have seen this story before, but worth repeating - Flutterby sent it to me...

BEING A MOTHER....

After 17 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to
take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She
said, 'I love you, but I know this other woman loves
you and would love to spend some time with you.'
* * *
The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit
was my MOTHER, who has been alone for 20 years,
but the demands of my work and my two boys had
made it possible to visit her only occasionally.
* * *
That night I called to invite her to go out for
dinner and a movie.
* * *
'What's wrong, aren't you well,' she asked?
* * *
My mother is the type of woman who suspects that a
late night call or a surprise invitation is a sign
of bad news.
* * *
'I thought it would be pleasant to spend some
time with you,' I responded. 'Just the two of us.'
She thought about it for a moment, and then said,
'I would like that very much.'
* * *
That Friday after work, as I drove over to pick
her up I was a bit nervous. When I arrived at her
house, I noticed that she, too, seemed to be nervous
about our date. She waited in the door. She had curled her hair and was wearing the
dress that she had worn to celebrate her last
birthday on November 19th.
* * *
She smiled from a face that was as radiant as an
angel's. 'I told my friends that I was going to go
out with my son, and they were impressed,' she said,
as she got into that new white van. 'They can't wait to hear about our date'.
* * *
We went to a restaurant that, although not
elegant, was very nice and cozy. My mother took my
arm as if she were the First Lady. After we sat
down, I had to read the menu. Her eyes could only
read large print. Half way through the entries, I
lifted my eyes and saw Mom sitting there staring at
me. A nostalgic smile was on her lips. 'It was I
who used to have to read the menu when you were
small,' she said. 'Then it's time that you relax and
let me return the favor,' I responded.
* * *
During the dinner, we had an agreeable
conversation- -nothing extraordinary but catching up
on recent events of each other's life. We talked so
much that we missed the movie.
* * *
As we arrived at her house later, she said,
'I'll go out with you again, but only if you let me
invite you.' I agreed.
* * *
'How was your dinner date ?'
asked my wife when I got home.
'Very nice. Much more so than I could have imagined,'
I answered.
* * *
A few days later, my mother died of a massive
heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I didn't
have a chance to do anything for her.
* * *
Some time later, I received an envelope with a
copy of a restaurant receipt from the same place
mother and I had dined. An attached note said: 'I
paid this bill in advance. I wasn't sure that I
could be there; but nevertheless, I paid for two
plates - one for you and the other for your wife.
You will never know what that night meant for me.
I love you, son.'
* * *
At that moment, I understood the importance of
saying in time: 'I LOVE YOU' and to give our loved
ones the time that they deserve. Nothing in life is
more important than your family. Give them the time
they deserve, because these things cannot be put off
till 'some other time.'
* * *
Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back
to normal after you've had a baby..... somebody
doesn't know that once you're a mother,
'normal' is history.
* * *
Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by
instinct ... somebody never took a three-year-old shopping.
* * *
Somebody said being a mother is boring ....
somebody never rode in a car driven by a teenager with a driver's permit.
Somebody said if you're a'good' mother,
your child will 'turn out good'......
somebody thinks a child comes with
directions and a guarantee.
* * *
Somebody said you don't need an education to be a
mother.... somebody never helped a fourth grader
with his math.
* * *
Somebody said you can't love the second child as
much as you love the first .... somebody doesn't
have two children.
* * *
Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother
is labor and delivery....
somebody never watched her 'baby' get on the bus
for the first day of kindergarten ...
or on a plane headed for military 'boot camp.'
* * *
Somebody said a mother can stop worrying after her
child gets married....somebody doesn't know that
marriage adds a new son or daughter-in-law to a
mother's heartstrings.
* * *
Somebody said a mother's job is done when
her last child leaves home....


somebody never had grandchildren.
* * *
Somebody said your mother knows you love her, so
you don't need to tell her....
somebody isn't a mother.



Pass this along to all the 'mothers' in your life
and to everyone who ever had a mother. This isn't
just about being a mother; it's about appreciating
the people in your life while you have them....no
matter who that person is.

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You will know the truth & the truth will set you free

muldoon

thanks sassy, im going to call my mom tonight.