Socialism For Sale On Ebay. How Much Is It Worth?

    As President Obama tries to sell an overhaul of health management and care that is tantamount to medical socialism, liberals have breathed new life into the failed ideology of socialism.

Between President Obama and one of the most liberal congressional delegations in decades under the leadership of Harry “We Lost The War” Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco treat, everything is fair game for Democrats to socialize. They have moved to tax the air we breathe and have adopted measures that will amount to the greatest transfer of wealth ever known to man. Eleven months after Joe the Plumber’s question prompted then Senator Barack Obama to offer the now infamous statement quoting him as hoping to be able to “spread the wealth”, his wishes are coming true.

Like children in a candy store, the unchecked liberal led federal government are rapidly rushing to put government in charge of everything including the money that once flowed through a merit based free market economy. Under President Obama, Majority Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi, the government is God and it, not the free market controls who is or isn’t wealthy, when and where people receive medical attention, what cars we drive, what industries survive and how much a farmer can be charged for the gassy emissions of his cows.

Without realizing it, gleeful liberals and ignorant Democrats who are blissful over the election of President Obama and the liberal led Congress are seeing the socialism that our nation once fought, now spread from border to border and sea to shining sea.

Like pet rocks and marshmallow heeled shoes, socialism id the in thing. It is the trend du jour and once shy supporters of this anti-American system of governance have come out from under the rocks they occupy to celebrate and rejoice in the socialist system that will eventually run out of the peoples money that they spend for us.

The rise of socialism shows itself in likely and unlikely places. One likely place is on that Mecca of free speech and thinking, the internet.

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On one internet web site, U4Prez.com, socialism has reached an all time peak of support among its field of candidates who run a virtual race for President. U4Prez is a social network for politics. It is largely a site for political debate and through several creative platforms, U4Prez allows participants to make their point on any and every issue under the sun. Those who participate in the site are called candidates and through a system of weekly primaries and a rating system that allows “candidates” to register their levels of support for other “candidates”, a virtual campaign for President is waged. Come November the winners of the Independent, Republican and Democrat primaries run against each other for the presidency.

Along the way, candidates even select party leaders. After President was sworn into office U4Prez saw some candidates organize a U4prez Socialist Party. Membership in that party did not exactly swell but it did get support and its few members were persistent and vehement in their promotion of socialist values and policies.

But recently the leader of the U4Prez party snapped and resigned, leaving socialists on the site rudderless. In a statement issued by the U4Prez Socialist Party leader, he articulated his frustration with trying to get through to Republicans and conservatives who are offended by socialism and consistently denounce the antithetical role that it plays in reference to our Constitution and American life in general.

The socialist leader’s abrupt departure created a vacancy but as true believers in the free market, one member, Kempite, (yours truly), placed the U4prez Socialist Party up for auction on eBay.

In what is a demonstration of the ingenuity of capitalism, socialism was finally given a purpose and value. But in another demonstration of how good citizenry doesn’t put personal profit over individual compassion which need not be legislated by government, any profit from the auction is going to a subsidiary of the Humane Society called Popcorn Park Zoo, a rehabilitation and natural habitat facility in New Jersey.

For those of us who believe in a government of the people, by the people and for the people but do not believe in a government controlling every aspect of the people’s lives, placing socialism on the auction block is an extraordinary symbolic gesture. We see no value in socialism and as such we started bidding at 1 penny, or as it were, one RED cent. Placing socialism up for auction is the only way we see for it to have any value.

In another very symbolic gesture, the current high bid for socialism is, one cent, an indication of the fact that socialism is really not worth anything more than one red cent.

Now more than ever, political passions run deep in America. After a summer of town hall events marked by a wide divide of different opinions, political debate rages and it does so nowhere more than on U4pPrez.com.

Get involved. Add your two cents to the process. Visit U4Prez.com, become a candidate, join the discussion and run for President. You just might be better than the current occupant of the White House.

IS GOING GALT THE ANSWER TO OBAMA’S POLICIES?

    I understand that some national policies are  moving us  towards socialism and is  removing incentive from our society.  I realize that rewarding mediocrity is something that, in the long run, benefits no one. But what I did not realize is that there exists a protest movement that is going with the government flow and accepting medicrioty as a means to teach government a lesson.  The movement is accepting the results of national policies and reducing their high levels of productivity which are being penalized more than rewarded.

It is called Going Galt.

It stems from a classic American novel written by Ayn Rand called Atlas Shrugged. Although written in 1954, the book is as timely as ever.

It is a story about an America where the innovators and creators in our society have disappeared and we lose those of great talent and abilities. It is a theoretical description of the result of our loss of individuality and our market economy. In the book, the government is the oppressive bureaucracy that stifles success and rewards mediocrity. Government is the looter and it reflects the philosophy of socialism. Instead of rewarding success, government penalizes it.

As a result, a character in the book, named John Galt, covertly leads a movement to withdraw the most talented and innovative from the free market engine of the world economy. Galt leads those, who refuse to be exploited by looting governments, on a crusade that denies the looters any booty to loot.

Prompted by the government’s taking incentives out of success and innovation in order to spread the wealth, those who fuel our economy withdraw and government eventually loses its source of wealth and its means to sustain itself and the people it tries to spread wealth to.

That is the premise behind Going Gault.

One web site writes that “Going Galt is dropping out. Closing a business, leaving your job or just working to survive.”

This, in essence cuts off the funding source of government, otherwise known as the looters.

Without having your endless productivity to tax, the government will have nothing to loot and eventually the socialist desire to spread wealth is killed off by there being no wealth to spread.

Since we are becoming a society that increasingly punishes success and productivity many feel it is time for those who make the money and pay the taxes to take it easy, live on less and let the government looters try to spread wealth with very little available wealth.

Current economic policy directions are making the Going Galt  movement more and more prevalent. After all, President Obama ran and won on a platform that promised to take money from those who are productive and redistribute it to those who are not as productive or successful. So where is the incentive to be so productive? Where is the desire to earn more if that only means that more will be taken from you. 

This leads us to a modern day version of Atlas Shrugged.

Imagine the local supermarket whose owner has more money taken away from them for having a good business. Now imagine that supermarket owner closing his store and putting a sign up on the door that says “Going Galt”. Imagine that sign hanging on those closed doors for three or four days a week.

Under the current system of penalizing success, the store owner may end up with the same amount of money in his own pocket after selling less product than he could have made for selling more products.

Of course the government will also yield less from that store owner and will have less wealth to hand out to the employees of that store who will already be losing out on three or four days of employment and salary.

It’s a vicious cycle that creates a downward spiral  prompted by socialist policies which can’t sustain themselves and certainly cannot sustain our government. It is also the impetus behind Going Galt.

Some ways to Go Galt include stop investing. Capital gains taxes remove your profits and enable the government to continue and expand socialist policies. So dry up the source of the financing of those policies. Stop investing.

HowToGoGalt.com also suggests that you “Visit your local school board, or send a letter asking the economics department to teach free market capitalism. A great book to suggest is Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics. I would also suggest donating Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, A Man In Full and other good books to your local school library. Put the pinch on local looters by voting down new tax levies, and supporting groups that fight new taxes. On the other hand it’s a good time to support vocational education and two year technical colleges. Stop giving money to your college alma mater. Just about every college embraces a socialist ideology.”

Going Galt is not a positive thing to have to do, it is really a last resort. But with the way things are going, many in society feel that we are that point.

After seeing some Republicans equivocate on fiscal issues and after witnessing Democrats adopt socialism, many feel that Going Galt,  breaking the government wealth distribution system and proving the point, is the only way to bring about change that is meaningful.

Going Galt  may actually be the change that we need in order to really give us hope again.

So the next time  a tax is raised, a new government program is created and a new private sector company is taken over by the federal government, send a message, Go Galt and let liberals begin to understand just how unsustainable socialism really is.

 

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