Then the socialists should pick a better word. I'm speaking in broader terms keeping in mind the people the big O has surrounded himself with over his lifetime. I'm also talking about keeping the federal government from gaining even more control, keep these things within the states where it belongs.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Chris Dunford <[email protected]> wrote: > > *. . . a socialist policy is abhorrent to the British ideas of freedom. > > Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object > > worship of the state. It will prescribe for every one where they are to > > work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say. > > Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist > system > > can be established without a political police. They would have to fall > back > > on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first > > instance > > > > Winston Churchill > > * > > Oh, dear. I'm afraid you've just stepped in it, Mike. That's a postwar > campaign quote, a broadside from Churchill's 15-inch oratorical guns, aimed > squarely at Clement Attlee. It was hyperbole, and it > cost him dearly. Attlee responded by thanking Churchill for providing a > clear demonstration of the difference between a great wartime leader and a > typical peacetime politician. > > In fact, the British National Health Service originated from a report > commissioned by the WW2 Churchill government--a report that Churchill > endorsed and would have implemented had he not been voted > out of office in 1945. Instead, Attlee's government implemented it in 1948. > When Churchill returned to power in 1951, he could easily have scrapped it, > and many in the Conservative Party wanted him to > do just that. He did not; on the contrary, he increased its funding. (As > did Margaret Thatcher, by the way, the very Toriest of modern Tories.) > > Here's a pre-campaign Churchill quote that shows his position far more > accurately, from 1944. Note clearly the final sentence. In the future you > will want to avoid citing Churchill on this. He > understood the difference between a Marxist regime and the provision of > critical social programs by a democratic government--a distinction that > seems to escape so many American conservatives. > > "The discoveries of healing science must be the inheritance of all. That is > clear. Disease must be attacked, whether it occurs in the poorest or the > richest man or woman simply on the ground that it > is the enemy; and it must be attacked just in the same way as the fire > brigade will give its full assistance to the humblest cottage as readily as > to the most important mansion. Our policy is to > create a national health service in order to ensure that everybody in the > country, irrespective of means, age, sex, or occupation, shall have equal > opportunities to benefit from the best and most > up-to-date medical and allied services available." > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
