The Wall Street Occupying and Criminal Destruction of Property craze of 2011 seems to be losing some steam. Apparently, they’ve run out of money and places in which to publicly eliminate. My favorite story was the one where the street bums were forbidden from the mess halls due to lack of resources. The very people who believe that unlimited resources should be bestowed onto them, had no tolerance for sharing their limited resources with others. Their hypocritical desire to be the recipients of public charity proved antithetical to their desire to provide others the same charity.
This is the problem with Socialism, Communism, and all other forms of Central Command and Control styles of government: Those at the top NEVER abide by the standards they impose upon others.
In Liberalism, you see people like Albert Gore squallering about the negative effects of C02, while he produces 400x more than anyone else. In Republicans, you often see a politician preaching of family values right before he is arrested for kanoodling with his teenaged page. In Socialism, you see their economies imploding because their leaders accepted bribes and misdirected public funds in order to benefit themselves. In our Democracy, you see Team Obama misappropriating billions of dollars to their largest campaign donors, while labeling those asking some logical questions as corrupt.
The “Occupiers” really seem to be favoring Communism – a system where they are all treated equally and get jobs and houses provided to them; where everyone is someone, and everyone is a part of the collective….just like the Borg on Star Trek.
In China, they have just such a system. They have 1.5 Billion people and an average yearly household income of $3,300.00. That is almost enough for the average “occupier” to purchase a laptop computer, some new Birkenstocks, and 3 months worth of Starbuck’s coffee – yet this is the system they are salivating over.
The group of people who don’t like the 1% are really not going to like the .0000000001%
Even in Red Communist China, the corruption is rampant, the politicians are money hoarders, and their kids drive Ferraris. The leaders of China ordered parts of their society to work for a time on farms to reconnect with the land, all while their own kids attend fancy private schools and drive $200,000 cars.
From the article: “Many princelings engage in legitimate business, but there is a widespread perception in China that they have an unfair advantage in an economic system that, despite the country’s embrace of capitalism, is still dominated by the state and allows no meaningful public scrutiny of decision making.
The state owns all urban land and strategic industries, as well as banks, which dole out loans overwhelmingly to state-run companies. The big spoils thus go to political insiders who can leverage personal connections and family prestige to secure resources, and then mobilize the same networks to protect them.”
You see, Occupiers, even in your dream society, the rich and powerful still exist, they still run everything, and the people are basically powerless to do anything about it. The people have no weapons with which to overthrow the government, and that was by design. The government controls the food, transportation, communications and everything else needed to enact any type of regime change, and that was by design. The government controls the schools, the media, the advertising, the newscasts, and all other forms of interpersonal communication, and that was by design.
When you hear crazy conservatives bemoaning even the smallest acquisition of power by Big Nanny, it is because we have actually studied history, and we are watching China. Every time Team Obama takes over the banks and assorted private manufacturing firms, and attempts to take control of cell phones, the internet, talk radio, the 2nd Amendment, and the energy sector – you should take notice. It is your future and your freedom that is at risk, too.
Unless you like being told how to live by the 1%…which is what will happen when you accept the ‘FREE’ jobs, schooling, housing, and future THEY bestow upon you.
