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In Washington D.C. there is powerful and
popular lobby called the
Congressional
Progressive Caucus which, at one time, openly espoused the principles of
socialism and publicly signed onto the agenda of the
Democratic Socialists
of America.
According to their statement of purpose,
"The Progressive Caucus is organized around the principles of
social and economic justice, a non-discriminatory society and national
priorities which represent the interests of all people, not just the wealthy
and the powerful.
Our purpose is to present thoughtful, practical
solutions to the economic and social problems facing America. Our people-based
agenda extends from job creation to job training, to economic conversion, to
single payer healthcare reform, to adequate funding for the AIDS crisis, to
environmental reform, and to women's rights.
Now that the cold war is
over, this nation's budget and overall priorities must reflect that reality. We
support further cuts in outdated and unnecessary military spending, a more
progressive tax system in which wealthy taxpayers and corporations contribute
their fair share, and a substantial increase in social programs designed to
meet the needs of low-and-middle-income American families. We believe that
these goals fit within an overall commitment to deficit
reduction."
In more recent years, the Congressional Progressive Caucus has
gone underground in respect to their connection to the DSA. Their roster is no
longer published on the DSA website and they no longer publicly acknowledge to
their loyalty to the socialist organization. In the DSA document, "Electoral
Politics As Tactic Elections Statement 2000," it states:
"DSA recognizes that some insurgent politicians representing
labor, environmentalists, gays and lesbians, and communities of color may
choose to run under Democratic auspices... and the 59 Democratic members of the
Congressional Progressive Caucus, one-half of whom are Black and Latino and all
of whom possess strong labor backing and operative social democratic
politics."
Democratic-Socialist Reform
We are told that we can have Socialist reform and still be a
Democratic nation. Deceptive and misguided politicians in both the Republican
and Democratic parties, and the International Bankers, tell us that
Democratic-Socialism is in the middle of the road between Communism and
Fascism, and that we need a Democratic-Socialist state in the 21st. Century
with its global economies.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Socialist reform is a means to consolidate and control wealth. Why do you
suppose that bankers and the super-rich promote it? Because the idea that
socialism is a share-the-wealth program is strictly a confidence game to get
the people to surrender their freedom to an all-powerful collective. As a
result, through the legislative process, like sheep going to slaughter,
Americans are willingly and slowly sacrificing their liberty in exchange for
the false promises of an increasingly Socialist State.
We have witnessed
over the past 100 years an increasingly dramatic swing from capitalism to
socialism in many areas of our economy.
- In 1913, the Federal Reserve
was created in a coup détat that resulted in rewriting the
Constitution of the United States and left the American people with a
progressively declining dollar. Today, thanks to the actions of this central
bank, the American dollar is worth about 4 cents.
- In 1968, Congress removes the silver backing of the dollar, and
in 1971, President Nixon repudiates redemption of Federal Reserve Notes in
gold, thus turning the FRNs into a fiat currency internationally for the first
time.
- Consider for example the massive
transfer of
wealth from tobacco growers and cigarette manufacturers into state and
federal coffers.
- In the pockets of the
drug manufacturing cartel, representatives from both sides
of the isle forced through a stealth vote, passing a Prescription Drug bill
called, "Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act" that
essentially guaranteed huge profits for the pharmaceutical industry at the
expense of the American people. A key point of this bill prohibits the Federal
government from negotiating discounts with drug companies. This Medicare drug
plan fiasco enriches pharmaceutical companies, fleeces taxpayers, and forces
millions of older Americans to accept inferior drug coverage. Many
representatives who voted in favor of this drug scam were later offered million
dollar jobs from the pharmaceutical industry.
Simply put, socialism is defined as "a theory or system of social
reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more
just and equitable distribution of property and labor." [Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)] It is an
economic system based on state ownership of capital. It is the antithesis of
what America is ... it is contrary to our capitalistic society.
What
socialism amounts to is government ownership and/or control over the basic
means of production and distribution of services and goods. This means the
government controls everything, including you.
Following the attack on
9/11, Socialists in our government gleefully began invading the privacy and
exerting massive control on the movement and freedom of ALL Americans. Sadly,
many American believed
the lies.
In Socialism everything is regulated by the government and
everything you do is monitored by the government. While we may not have yet
reached the point where the state tells you what color you can paint your
house, how many children you may have, etc., instead the government tells you
where you can build your homes, your businesses, and even how much food storage
you are entitled too. In recent years, we've also witnessed the dismantling of
the 5th Amendment as the Supreme Court of the
United States ruled that the govenment may seize a home, small business, or
other private property of one citizen and transfer it to another private
citizen - if the transfer would boost the community's economic development or
increase its tax base.
Americas slide toward Socialism can be seen as
early as 1929 following the Stock Market Crash, when America suddenly needed a
"New Deal" in the form of social welfare. The rate of the transformation has
been increased in recent years by the United Nations, whose entire purpose
is to implement a
Socialist New World Order.
America's gravitation
toward socialism has been long-term and precedes even the arrival of Bill and
Hillary Clinton in the White House. Economist Milton Friedman recently observed
that "in 1950, total government spending, federal, state, and local, amounted
to less than 30 percent of national income; in 1992, to nearly 45. In addition,
government-mandated expenditures by individuals and businesses have multiplied
manifold ... The U.S. is today more than half socialist, compared to perhaps a
third in 1950." [Rush Limbaugh, See, I Told You So, pg.
267.]
There are the social and political voices talking about the unfair
distribution of wealth and resources - that a global system of sharing and
redistribution could remedy the social problems of cross-national envy, and
that if this were addressed, a major component of international strife and war
would be removed forever.
We have crossed Bill Clinton's "Bridge into
the 21st Century" built on the crumbled moorings of the past. It is the same
bridge built by the "New Deal" of FDR and the "Great Society" of LBJ. These
bridges led us in the past to the abyss of unprecedented big government. Our
American toll was a loss of freedom and dignity, and our destination decades of
encroaching bureaucracy and generations addicted to the hand of
government.
In the simplest
of terms, the sum of Bill Clinton's administration amounted to a federal
government takeover of the management of American business,
health care,
education
and the American
family. Clinton's actions while President of the United States demonstrate
that he envisions much more than mere renewal or reform; he wants to
create an
entirely new society controlled by a massive Socialist government. One has
to only scan through a few of Clinton's policies in
economic,
spending, and tax strategy to see that sovereignty and personal freedoms
are the items actually targeted for reduction.
And, now, we're faced
with the same threat from a familiar face. Hillary Clinton has been described
by many as the front-runner for most likely Democaratic nominee for President
in 2008. Make no mistake about it - Hillary Clinton is every bit a
Socialist that her husband is. I thought it
ironic that during the Democratic YouTube debate, when asked if Hillary was a
liberal, she preferred to refer to herself as a "progressive".
Traditionally, Democrats have stood for big government, far-reaching
federally controlled and federally funded programs and taxation at levels to
match, and Hillary promises the same. Originally created to defend and protect,
our government is now being asked to provide. In short, many Americans today
think the government must be the answer to all societal problems. And as the
problems grow, so must the government.
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