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Joan Hough is a Southern lady from an old Louisiana family now living in Houston, TX. She is the widow of two decorated military husbands.

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Socialism by any other name (Part 2) – Commentary by Joan Hough
Part 2 of a 3 part series

Socialism by any other name Part 1 - Joan Hough

"...a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."
--Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
--George Washington

The more one understands the nature of Socialism, the more one realizes how socialistic our U.S. has become in more of its aspects than just that found in a Hate Crimes Bill designed to prohibit our communication of ideas socially unacceptable to certain people. The U.S. Post office system, a government owned business, proves its socialistic inefficiency, time and time again, when compared with privately owned mail conveying companies. Our central government controlled public school system offers another grand example of socialism in action -- the decline of the quality of education. A decline most evident since the central government took over the curriculum and made the rules for our children’s tests and the content of their studies.

Listen to what the people on the street are saying about living in America today. They think that Socialism is something desirable, something mighty nice. Socialized medicine they think might be wonderful. Equality for all folks is greatly to be desired. The right laws can force fraternity and brotherhood.

Some of the people love the words: “From each according to his ability to each according to his need.” They go so far as to claim that those words should be the motto of every civilized person because they represent the ultimate in humane unselfishness. An appalling number----45 percent of adult respondents in 1987------ even believe that those words can be found in the U.S. Constitution. They are in fact the words of Karl Marx.

People, who entertain such thoughts in reaction to the “From each to each” slogan, know not that they know not and they have absolutely no understanding of the nature of freedom, of liberty, and of the ideas responsible for the founding of our magnificent, unique and remarkable nation. Their ignorance demonstrated at the election polls will “do us in.” They have never been taught that the creators of our nation created what was to the rest of the world, a shockingly, brand new form of government based on the religious beliefs that man’s rights all come from GOD and not from government---that the purpose of government is to secure individuals in their God given rights to life, liberty, and property.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed....” --Declaration of Independence

Bastiat declares ”Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”

People without knowledge of the truth about the principles which served as the U.S. foundation of government, have fallen victim to the most popular fallacy of our times. They believe—--they have been taught to believe—---that government (the law) must not only be fair and just, but must be philanthropic--—that it must provide welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation and produce fraternity. Acting with their vote on these thoughts, they elect men and women who put socialism into action, changing our once great Republic into another socialistic state (nation). Charity is not charity when it is compelled. Fraternity to be fraternity, must be voluntary. It cannot be forced.

People without knowledge of truth may feel that feeding the starving children of the world is America’s job and must be paid for by American taxpayers. It is only right, they say, that a rich nation should take care of the poor people of the world, as well as of the poor people at home. With such little understanding of mankind’s place in the universe, these American do-gooders are completely confused about the role of charity and the role of government. They simply do not understand that government has no money of its own. It takes from Mr. John Q, Public the money that he wants to spend on his own children’s decaying teeth and the “Law” gives it away to some government across the ocean--another example of legal plunder. Charity to be charity must come from the heart. That which is thought to be our government’s charitable contribution to feed the starving children of the world, too often winds up on the back of a prosperous foreign government official, or as decoration around the lovely neck of his wife or one of his concubines.

Although over and over we have heard that ignorance is no excuse, in the case of ignorance by taxpayers, it very well may be a highly plausible excuse. They were all former students in government controlled schools (and yes, schools have been controlled by the central government in devious fashions since the 1860’s and are even monstrously and openly controlled now by the central government). Because of this control, Americans were never taught that the creators of our nation believed that man’s rights came from God and not from government and that their belief made possible the birth of a nation unique in the world’s history and gave Americans individual freedom unparalleled in all of time since man emerged from his first cave.

The taxpayers cannot be blamed for their lack of understanding of the evils of socialism or their inability to identify and to resist its seductive charms, because the authors of the publications they read, the teachers in the schools they attended, the people with whom they have association have either not known or, deliberately, chosen not to reveal the difference between the type of government found in a Republic and the type centered in Socialism or in DEMOCRACY, which is, in its own fashion, just as bad--—and, actually, merely another name for Socialism. (Sadly, I say--—our own U.S. presidents persist in terming our form of government a “democracy.” Our World War II, in fact, was touted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as the war to “make the world safe for DEMOCRACY.”

Today’s Americans may not even realize that Socialism is that form of government we have long known as COMMUNISM. In fact, the “From each according to his ability” slop is a big, really big, Communist motto (Joseph Stalin- Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [1936]. Article 12)—---A Communist motto still prattled by American liberals. Average Americans, however, fail to recognize the meaning behind the words---considering them non-menacing and illustrative of compassion, rather than the horrors of Communism/socialism. Some Americans subjected to “higher education” were the unlucky ones who took a slanted “Communism Course” in colleges where their brains were inundated with the propaganda that Communism is, vastly, different from Socialism—--that Communists have higher ideals and Communism offers more bountiful blessings for its citizens---that, in fact, Communism is good while Marxism is its evil twin.

“Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.” --Thomas Jefferson, from Notes on the State of Virginia [1781-1785]. Query VI.

"People separated from their history are easily persuaded." --Karl Marx

“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it” --Thomas Sowell

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” --Winston Churhill

Part III of this essay will further explore Socialism by any other name.

Contact Joan Hough at joanhough@aol.com.

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