Posted on 01/20/2019 5:04:58 PM PST by huckfillary
Reading about all the young ignorant, uneducated, “millennials” who proudly label themselves “socialists” or “social justice warriors” (same thing) reminded me of a question posed by my old friend Professor Walter E. Williams in a speech he gave at my university several years ago. The question is: What would you call a system that used force, violence, coercion, and intimidation to compel one person to work for the benefit of another person or persons? Whenever I ask this of one of my undergraduate classes it usually takes about five seconds for someone to blurt out, “slavery!” Exactly. The class then becomes very uncomfortable and unhappy looking when I ask if there is any different between this and the welfare state or the “social justice” that so many of them have been indoctrinated into celebrating.
Democrats have been the party of slavery from the very beginning. They play the game a little differently these days, but it is essentially the same game.
I don’t know where you teach but I’m surprised the liberal students at your university haven’t rode you out on a rail. Intellectual honesty is very offensive to Leftists.
Yesterday at the local women’s march (TINY crowd), the news interviewed a 16 yo girl with a sign and she said, “If I see something wrong and do nothing, that’s my white privilege!” Already indoctrinated. She’ll be a real jewel in college.
And completely agree, re: social justice.
John MacArthur has a great sermon exposing this fraud.
Bookmark
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Thankfully we were chained with 10 Billion awarded to Mexico n central America. Did someone tell our leadersip that 5 billion subtracted from 10 billion would build it?
I took it to mean she’s been immersed in white guilt so she feels it necessary to stand up for every wacko leftist cause that comes along.
Injustice = freedom?
I’m not a teacher, never have been. I am retired, and my hobby is learning-—natural law and rights, objectivist theory (Ayn Rand), and liberty in general. I never run out of reading material. I have a website at www.artfuldilettante.com. with a great reading list.
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Then I pose a question, if I’m forced to pay taxes for things I don’t agree with isn’t that almost the same?
Free college, free health care. Somebody has to pay.
Either you enslave people who work in those fields or you enslave the middle class.
We all know who their gunning for.
16 yo girl with a sign and she said, “If I see something wrong and do nothing, that’s my white privilege!”
Translation: If I see something wrong and do nothing, that is because I am a spoiled, selfish white girl who only cares about herself.
Of course, her definition of “something wrong” is going to be defined by atheist communists.
I would highly recommend it.
I believe "Bastiat" is pronounced Bass-ye-yea, don't hold me to that, but that does seem how most people say the name.
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When a reviewer wishes to give special recognition to a book, he predicts that it will still be read “a hundred years from now.” The Law, first published as a pamphlet in June, 1850, is already more than a hundred years old. And because its truths are eternal, it will still be read when another century has passed.
Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before - and immediately following -- the Revolution of February 1848. This was the period when France was rapidly turning to complete socialism. As a Deputy to the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Bastiat was studying and explaining each socialist fallacy as it appeared. And he explained how socialism must inevitably degenerate into communism. But most of his countrymen chose to ignore his logic.
The Law is here presented again because the same situation exists in America today as in the France of 1848. The same socialist-communist ideas and plans that were then adopted in France are now sweeping America. The explanations and arguments then advanced against socialism by Mr. Bastiat are -- word for word -- equally valid today. His ideas deserve a serious hearing.
If you want a copy, send me your E-Mail via a private message, and I'll send you a copy that is in RTF {Rich Text Format} form.
Senator Byrd, nuff sed
“Then I pose a question, if I’m forced to pay taxes for things I don’t agree with isn’t that almost the same?”
Short ans. YES
That’s why we are supposed to have limited government and limited taxation and as close to the voter as possible.
Went south along time ago, unfortunately.
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION !!!!’
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