Ah, irony. I had just finished reading excerpts from Animal Farm when I pick up my local paper and read this article from Llewellyn King, “Don’t let cries of ‘socialism’ mislead you.”
It’s been years since I’ve read the book or saw the movie, yet I am now almost certain that King was the inspiration for Squealer, the court propagandist and sophist. Or, at least he could have been.
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“Don’t let cries of ‘socialism’ mislead you.”
Just Undo It!
The classic useful idiot.
“Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of White House Chronicle on PBS. ”
So this guy has a show on the state sponsored PBS network and he is saying don’t worry about socialism?
Everytime someone says ‘don’t worry about socialism’ I point them to Bastiat’s The Law. State sponsored theft is not a ‘form of government’, its a trajedy.
The enlightenment is dead.
I do not think this is a socialism but temporary control to restore order and efficiency after sometimes you will again be out of this temporary mentoring process. If you ever worked with a company, and your subordinate couldn’t work efficiently, you need to control them and train them closely, otherwise you would get bad result. Until now, many people still don’t learn that ‘ don’t go and speculate on houses, hedge funds, stock, etc. like that again, it’s ok when not many ppl do it but its a big distortion when many ppl go into that sector ‘. They are waiting to make that bubble up. the economy has its ability to rectify itself when people learn from the past but this crisis is telling me that ” US ppl simply just don’t learn ” … many people still wait for the illusion of stockmarket to be on the rise with wishful thinking that tomorrow the govt. will come with a magic to make the economy recover in a sudden… and you just have too many ppl who are like that. I am sorry .. but .. they dont learn. low interest rate is not relating with disability to scan economics environment that there are too many people (or the prices are too high) in that sector already. They cant look around and find what is not being done a lot yet. They could use that money from low intereste rate to invest in other sector , but they didnt.
“Tactics, comrades, tactics!”
I’ll have to respectfully disagree with you guys on this one.
Yes, it is true that Obama is pushing a failed stimulus based on Keynesian nonesense, a stronger welfare system and a more regulated market. But I would not use the “S word” to describe this situation.
I live in Ecuador and here WE ARE really socialists: the media is controled by the state, we have no separation of powers whatsoever and our president is a de-facto dictator with Marxist tendencies. Hell, our Vicepresident’s name is Lenin and the IRS director’s is Karl Marx Carrasco. The other week, it was proved that our Sub-Secretary of State had strong links with FARC, a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group which is probably financing our goverment.
Obama isnt socialist, he is a “social liberal” (still wrong but…), using the word Socialism all the time just disolves its true meaning: to be messed up as my country.
At the end of his column, after listing all the social programs available to citizens in Britain and France, King says, “Newsweek says, ‘We are all socialists now.’ Maybe. But if it is so, we have nothing to fear but the word itself.”
That “we” is very presumptuous. Some individuals are willing to surrender their freedoms to have a free lunch with the menu defined by others, but they NEVER are willing to do so within the confines of a voluntary community, leaving others to say “No, thanks.” — Why?
Collectively, those willing to do so hope to gain more than they collectively are willing to produce. That burden is a yoke on the shoulders of the potentially more productive, limiting both choice and future gains in productivity or innovation.
More importantly, that yoke is government sponsored theft, since it steals an individual’s will to choose his own way in exchange for the majority’s will to choose for him. It is the opposite of freedom; it is slavery to the state.
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