[No One Special]

Yes, it does sound familiar and the author knows of where she speaks because she was born and raised in communist Romania.

It was a different time and I can certainly understand the longing for a more perfect world. It was probably only a hundred years ago that average men for the first time were able to earn enough so they had some spare time to enjoy the fruits of their labor. So it was only natural to ask, “Why cannot we feed the world.” And the answer came back, “Government power can do that.”

Well some of us learned that wasn’t the case and said, “Stop the slaughteer.” But others learned that a politician’s appeal to the basest of human instincts can result in a cushy life-style. So there’s your greed and it needs to be pointed out and then maybe one day we will feed the world.

[bert]

-----“Stop the slaughteer.”----

Slaughter stopping event

[ravenwolf]

It was a different time and I can certainly understand the longing for a more perfect world.

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I was reading some time ago that more people has been murdered by their own Government in the last hundred years or so than killed by an enemy.