Fuzz asleep.
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Jim Willis <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The socialists among us are coming out of the woodwork with their hair
> on fire. Were the subject matter of less import this might be amusing.
> The Marxists see the current financial crisis as their opportunity to
> convince Joe-six-pack of the futility and inequities of capitalism.
>
> Personally, I just eat this up with a spoon. As these pseudo-
> intellectuals blather and bloviate on a subject they understand much
> as Paris Hilton understands advanced astrophysics they put on display
> the wasted tax dollars we spent on their public education.
>
> Firstly, let us not vacillate on the difference between communism and
> socialism. Either ideology is interchangeable and not dissimilar.
> Suggesting a chasm is akin to two fleas arguing over the dog they
> inhabit, both are, "free riding" leeches.
> The wooden dagger to the heart of socialism is that wherever it's been
> tried, it has failed, including here. More on that in my jaw dropping
> close; stay tuned.
>
> You might ask yourself, or have I ask of you, how, in just over two
> hundred years, America leads the world in all fields of human
> endeavor? As the author it is legitimate for me to answer my prescient
> posit thusly; it is our freedoms and capitalism. After all, in its
> most condensed form, capitalism is simply the freedom to engage in
> commerce.
>
> Capitalism inspires competition insuring the best goods and services
> to the consumer. It invokes innovation by rewarding it. It is the best
> pricing mechanism known to the world as free markets will always self
> correct. Capitalism regulates supply by linking it to demand.
>
> Socialism inspires no one and limits the potential of man by not
> rewarding perspiration and innovation. It rewards success and failure
> equally ensuring mediocrity. It stifles ambition by removing
> competition. It removes ambition, aptitude and ability from the
> success quotient. In short; it is the antithesis of democracy and
> makes comparable brilliant innovation and sub-par performance.
> Besides, America has had its foray into socialism.
>
> A group of separatists first fled to Holland and established a
> community. After eleven years, about forty of them agreed to make a
> perilous journey to the New World, where they would certainly face
> hardships, but could live and worship God according to the dictates of
> their own consciences.
> On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102
> passengers, including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford. The
> journey to the New World was a long and arduous one. And when the
> Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found, according to
> Bradford's detailed journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness.
> There were no friends to greet them, he wrote. There were no houses to
> shelter them. There were no inns where they could refresh themselves.
>
> And the sacrifice they had made for freedom was just beginning. During
> the first winter, half the Pilgrims – including Bradford's own wife –
> died of starvation, sickness or exposure. When spring finally came,
> Indians taught the settlers how to plant corn, fish for cod and skin
> beavers for coats. Life improved for the Pilgrims, but they did not
> yet prosper!
>
> This is important to understand because this is where modern American
> history lessons often end. Thanksgiving is actually explained in some
> textbooks as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the
> Indians for saving their lives, rather than as a devout expression of
> gratitude grounded in the tradition of both the Old and New
> Testaments.
>
> Here is the part that has been omitted: The original contract the
> Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London
> called for everything they produced to go into a common store, and
> each member of the community was entitled to one common share. All of
> the land they cleared and the houses they built belong to the
> community as well.
> They were going to distribute it equally.
>
> Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized
> that this form of collectivism was as costly and destructive to the
> Pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives. He
> decided to take bold action. Bradford assigned a plot of land to each
> family to work and manage, thus harnessing the power of the
> marketplace.
>
> Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and
> experimented with what could only be described as socialism. And what
> happened? It didn't work! What Bradford and his community found was
> that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work
> any harder than anyone else, unless they could utilize the power of
> personal motivation!
>
> But while most of the rest of the world has been experimenting with
> socialism for well over a hundred years – trying to refine it, perfect
> it, and re-invent it – the Pilgrims decided early on to scrap it
> permanently. What Bradford wrote about this social experiment should
> be in every schoolchild's history lesson.
>
> "The experience that we had in this common course and condition, tried
> sundry years...that by taking away property, and bringing community
> into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing – as if
> they were wiser than God," Bradford wrote. "For this community [so far
> as it was] was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and
> retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and
> comfort. For young men that were most able and fit for labor and
> service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to
> work for other men's wives and children without any recompense...that
> was thought injustice."
> Why should you work for other people when you can't work for yourself?
> What's the point?
>
> The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best
> work without incentive. So what did Bradford's community try next?
> They un-harnessed the power of good old free enterprise by invoking
> the under girding capitalistic principle of private property. Every
> family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to
> market its own crops and products. And what was the result?
>
> "This had very good success," wrote Bradford, "for it made all hands
> industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would
> have been." They prospered and what followed was the great puritan
> migration. The rest is history, as it were. Capitalism it seems is
> infectious and an abiding principal of the human condition; provided
> it is to succeed.
> Conservative Springfield 07OCT08
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