E-Newsletter No. 92 August 2021
How do you create a Socialist country?
Poverty – Increase the poverty level as high as possible. Poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them.
Welfare – Take control of every aspect of people’s lives (food, housing, income) because that will make them fully dependent on the government.
Fortunately, our free-market economy was successfully rejuvenated during the years 2017 – 2019 (prior to the pandemic that originated in China). Unemployment statistics and poverty levels were reduced to new lows that had not been seen in decades. The improved economic results were shared by people in all economic “classes”, including those individuals and families who were for the first time able to start building wealth.
So how did the Left react to this new level of prosperity? They resurrected the divisive Marxist mantra of class warfare. Our country’s free-market “sin” of income inequality became the Left’s new (old) rallying cry. Take a moment to set aside the hypocrisy of the Big Government elites who were largely successful in diverting attention away from their own accumulation of wealth (and real estate properties). Fortunately, many of our country’s citizens are well aware of the fact that multiple homes are owned by self-described Democratic Socialists and other Big Government elites, including Bernie Sanders, etc.
The members of our Editorial Board do not have any problems (at all) with the creation of wealth when it is earned in the private sector (versus the public sector). The wealth that is created in the free-market economy adds to our country’s Gross Domestic Product. Increases in wealth for those in the public sector happens due to a redistribution of wealth that is created in the private sector.
Nor are we troubled by the (inevitable) fact and existence of income inequality. Marxist class warfare rejects the fact that different people have different skills, desires, and levels of ambition. Our acceptance and lack of concern about income inequality is simply due to the fact that the only “solution” advanced by the Left is to try to “perfect” the concept of Socialism (which has been an abject failure every time and in every country it has ever been attempted).
Our reaction to the question of “How do you create a Socialist country?” is to say “No thank you.”
US Debt Clock – – July 1st – $85,400 per citizen / August 1st – $85,750