German Socialists Urge Abolition of American Way of Life

NEWSMAX ^ | 4/9/02 | Cliff Kincaid

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We work. They don't.
= big envy.

[Senator Pardek]

Other authors include Wolfgang Sachs, a fellow at German Wuppertal Institute who has achieved notoriety for arguing for a "virtue of enoughness” rather than more economic growth...

I'd like to see this guy explain that to some poor shmuck who's looking for a job.

Then again, he sounds a bit like a couple of Freepers, who love to carelessly throw around terms like "corporatism", and "Mammon".

[BJClinton]

Good analogy. Although the Unibomber did kill directly. The anti-animal testers have killed at least one person, and will likely kill again.

[headsonpikes]

"There's no socialist like a German socialist."

Well, actually, the others(particularly the French), are distinguishable from NAZIs only by their aversion to sauerkraut and ersatz kaffee.

[NormsRevenge]

capitalism has gone "astray” and "a new generation of instruments are needed such as user fees for the use of common goods” to help restructure the international system. It urges global "user fees” on the atmosphere, the oceans, and airspace to fund a World Environment Organization, an International Renewable Energy Agency and a World Commission on Mining, Gas and Oil Extraction.

Think Big!!

OWG ...Ouch !

[jodorowsky]

"Fairness in a Fragile World"

I thought "Arbeit Macht Frei" was a lot catchier, myself.

[RippleFire]

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   April 8-12

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• World Summit on Sustainable Development
  in Johannesburg, Aug. 26 - Sept. 4

[shaggy eel]

,,, it's important to not over react to this notion. Keep in mind that the distaste for Americans that sometimes surfaces in this sort of outburst is second only to the hatred that Euro states have for each other.

[colorado tanker]

Just more proof that when communism was discredited with the fall of the Soviet Union, the commies migrated to the "green" movement.

[Still Thinking]

I'm hearing this "global tax" prattle with a little too much frequency to make me comfortable. Maybe we need a Constitutional amendment explicitly exempting Americans from any tax levied by any international body, so that if the Clinton/Gorons ever regain the presidency, they can't give in to this (already) unconstitutional globalist drivel, like you KNOW they'd love to do.

[Republic]

Hitler used the unions to make his moves. The leftist unions caught up big time in his move to make Germany the center of the world, purified in race and dedicated to the state. The state was not unlike Castro's cuba-the state was the father-the mentor-the ruler and the final arbiter of everything. Just like lefties like big nanny governments making all the decisions, so was the lefties hitlerian corp-the worker's party-claiming all for the state.

[jpthomas]

If Herr Fischer were a true socialist, his official government vehicle ought to be a "Trabbi", the pride of the former German socialist state that boasted a two-stroke engine out-horsepowered by the average American lawn mower. However, I suspect that Herr Fischer is instead chauffered in a rather more capitalist product, namely, a Mercedes-Benz.

[jodorowsky]

But isn't Nazism based on National Socialism, right-wing?

It's totalitarian -- just like socialism.

The wing stuff is a red herring. You are just food to Nazis and Communists alike.

Socialists do not believe in nationalism, while for Nazis, Aryan nationalism was the main driving force.

*Imagery*. Those are just marketing spins to sell slavery. Idiots in one consumer group want a father-god-state to maintain tradition and idiots in another consumer group want a mommy-god-state to make things fair.

The only thing that matters about these ideas is that you are to be a slave.

[WyCoKsRepublican]

I've got something these neo Nazi's can tax.....hee, hee, hee........

[toddst]

Maybe we need a Constitutional amendment explicitly exempting Americans from any tax levied by any international body, so that if the Clinton/Gorons ever regain the presidency, they can't give in to this (already) unconstitutional globalist drivel, like you KNOW they'd love to do.

I'm not big on amending the Constitution, but generally I agree something should be put in place to protect us from this global (U.N.) tax mania.

[300winmag]

The unmitigated arrogance of this is astounding.

These clowns are the "new aristocracy", and feel they are entitled to much more than what they will allow for everbody else. They feel they deserve their Mercedes limos, and villas in some depopulated paradise. After all, when you speak for the "little guy", it's only natural that you be rewarded richly. It's tough work ordering the lives of the other 99.9% of the population.

George Orwell hit the mark with "Animal Farm", which is even more descriptive of these elitist turds than was "1984".

[Salman]

I'm hearing this "global tax" prattle with a little too much frequency to make me comfortable. Maybe we need a Constitutional amendment explicitly exempting Americans from any tax levied by any international body ...

If a global tax were levied, it would not be assessed directly on citizens, but on governments. You would pay "your" global taxes in the form of increased income tax collected through the existing system. This is what the UN calls "global governance". Not a single world government governing everybody directly, but an addition layer on top.

[scottiewottie]

Um, Global taxation would be taxation without representation, and our system is...

...never mind!

[Still Thinking]

I'm not big on amending the Constitution, but generally I agree something should be put in place to protect us from this global (U.N.) tax mania.

I agree in principle, but it is the most permanent and most difficult to reverse thing that I can think of, as opposed to an executive order or a new law. Not that the Dems (or the Pubbies, for that matter) are all that intent on obeying the Constitution anyway, but at least you'd have part of the solution in place.

I also feel that taxation by international bodies not elected by Americans is one of the few issues that are so fundamental or so important as to deserve Constitutional attention.