Posted on 07/24/2007 2:00:29 PM PDT by DCJeanGrey
But if I don't want to "work together" (i.e. shared retirement funds, shared healthcare funding, shared education costs), do I still have the "individual rights and freedoms" to go it alone?
Hillary and the other socialist types running on the Democrat side, spend so much time bashing free markets, capitalism and business that they don't realize that *voluntary* associations, most of the them capitalist in nature are a far more effective way of working together than Government dictat.
It's like PJ O'Rourke's quip about "It Takes a Village", the book that Hillary has ghost-written for her: In Hillary's view, "You are the child and Washington DC is the village."
This is all gauzy moderate-sounding marketing on the same old same old.
Spend your entire paycheck on the latest industrial electronic product, on your vastly overvalued house, on driving your SUV every day, and keep up with Harry Potter. In that way you will automatically be 'working together' in as low impact a way as possible: no thinking necessary for a good gear in the commercial machine.
no matter how much lipstick you put on this pig.....she still is the piaps!!!!
Hillary, I consider you a communist. Pure and simple.
It’s all a matter of pronunciation. The English language is constantly changing. In years past, “socialist” was pronounced “liberal,” but the hoi polloi have recently taken to pronouncing it “progressive” as a sign of their distinction from earlier socialists. Intelligent observers recognize this as merely an attempt at rebranding.
Hoi polloi means the people. The hoi polloi means the the people. This is what happens when we allow language to change without adult supervision.
Upon being called an Edsel, Hillary promptly replied that she was a Ford.
So “progessive” means democratic socialist now? Gee, I’m out of touch.
Sometimes it's just amazing how quickly leftists can contradict themselves, and without batting an eye.
Hillary is a self identified Communitarian!
“Progressive” has ALWAYS been what communists have called themselves. Ever since the ‘30s, when the American Communist Party started, they used the term “Progressive”. David Horowitz tells about it in his book “Radical Son” I believe.
So when someone calls himself a Progressive, I just take it to mean they admit they’re a commie pinko bed-wetter.
Any conservatives on the list? Or are they all uber-liberals?
Well, of COURSE it does! But you can't CALL it that! If you do, it will sound like the same stale, outmoded, discredited ideas the Left has been spouting since the Summer of Love.
You'll never sell that stuff if you label it what it really is. Better to call it "Compost."
Exactly. I’ve always thought that Progressive was a cover label for Communist.
Then a few minutes later she talks about women registering for Selective Service and "public service academies." One can assume youth would be conscripted into these institutions as a mandatory alternative to the military.
Of course her nationized health care plan would feature mandatory "insurance" and government rationing of medical services.
Then too, her husband's administration featured such "triumphs" for liberty as Waco and Elian Gonzalez and IRS oppression of conservative media outlets.
To claim that she believes in "individual rights and freedoms" shows how much of a liar, phony, and fraud she is!
HRC alert ping!
“Progressive” is nothing new.
It is not a nicer word than “Liberal”, it is, and has always been a code word for Socialist/Communist.
Starting back in the forties and fifties - that is how they identified one another.
Thank you for pointing out that Communists and Socialists have always identified themselves as “Progressives”. It is just a code word for Red.
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