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ECONOMY COMMENTARY
What to Do About the Growing Popularity of Socialism
Brad Wenstrup / @RepBradWenstrup / August 29, 2018 / 148 Comments
COMMENTARY BY
Brad Wenstrup@RepBradWenstrup
Brad Wenstrup is the U.S. representative for Ohio's second congressional district.
Many view her, along with socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., as carrying the
mantle for a renewed socialist trend in the United States among millennials.
Indeed, socialism enjoys stronger support among millennials than any other
generation today.
What would socialist policies mean for our country’s future?
To me, it’s pretty astounding to realize that a whole generation has grown up for
whom the Soviet Union is just a distant historical memory. They don’t have a
personal memory of when the Soviet Union came crashing down in 1991—
dramatic proof that its socialist system was a dismal failure. They can’t recall the
feeling of national pride over the fact that, in contrast, the free economy of the
United States had succeeded in producing the highest standard of living and
greatest material wealth in world history.
The problem is that, for all its high-minded fairness, socialism doesn’t work. It’s
not just a castle in the air—it’s the promise of a palace that is really built on
quicksand.
You don’t even have to look back to the Soviet Union to see this. Venezuela is
just the latest tragic example of socialism’s devastation.
At the beginning of the 21st century, Venezuela was one of the top 20 richest
countries in the world. Today, its poverty rate is 87 percent and its inflation rate is
predicted to be approaching 1,000,000 percent. Once, its capital was a tourist
destination with thriving culture. Today, it is the crime capital of the world.
This crisis is the result of the redistributive policies and the systematic destruction
of economic freedom by a current corrupt, elitist administration. As President
Donald Trump said in his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly:
“The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented,
but that socialism has been faithfully implemented.”
It’s a sobering reminder that while socialism’s torch bearers may change, the
havoc it wreaks with its hollow promises remains the same.
We must continue to speak out boldly—not based on fear, but based on facts.
We must continue to tell the truth, regardless of its popularity. We must continue
to implement policies that unleash the power of our free economy and create
more opportunities for all Americans—like the recently passed Tax Cuts and Jobs
Act with its bipartisan opportunity zones.
It’s my firm belief that, in the marketplace of ideas, freedom will always win out
over socialism on the basis of merit, evidence, and facts—but it cannot win if no
one is making the case.
Let’s continue to stand up and speak out. Let’s make the case.
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MajSam • a day ago
Among many reasons this generation of Americans do not know about the failures of socialism
is our neglect to maintain an education system that teaches the basic 3 R's. Allowing the
teaching profession to become bloated with Liberal/ Left leaning instructors and
administration. When looking at the career path of a teacher, it is easy to understand the
liberal outlook. Most never have an experience in the economic world. In other words 'Talking
about doing is not the same as Doing Doing'. This has to change. Requiring upper level
educators to have a history of capitalistic employment should be considered. Not having this
experience has lead to the development of ideals.... in this case the wrong ideals for this
Country.
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Jim Randy Stebbins • 10 hours ago
Our last president seemed to listlen only to the voices in his head,
demonstrating a narcissism and sanity level not seen since Hitler moved
nonexistent armies around Europe in the closing days of the war.
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Howes Design Service ImStillaYankee • 5 hours ago
Which one is it? Socialist, Communist, Marxist, or Facist? All wildly
different ideologies but discerning their difference would take a modicum
of intelligence to parse (which is a commodity the right wing doesn't often
trade in, probably because they are terrified of socialicommimarxifascist
higher educators).
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celtic cross ToSeek • 7 hours ago
BO, the marxist, was an economic wonder alright....He almost managed to bring
down the greatest country God ever created, but he couldn't push fat arse
Killary over the finish line. (Thank God.) And then Trump was elected, and the
economy, almost immediately, took off like a rocket. Try telling your lie
somewhere else; we're not buying.
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And don't forget that the Great Recession started under a REPUBLICAN
president. Obama inherited an economic crisis - he didn't create it.
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celtic cross ToSeek • 6 hours ago
If you weren't all arse, I'd suggest you pull yours out of your leftist nether
region. Progressive/socialist/marxists like BO have no business running
this great country, and useful idiots who vote for politicians like BO have
no business voting. Just sit back and let Trump get us out of BO's
mess...and MAGA.
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celtic cross ToSeek • an hour ago
Good riddance.
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ToSeek ImStillaYankee • 7 hours ago
Bull. There were 11 quarters under Obama with 2.2% growth or better
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Marie Mc CRITICAL LIFE LESSON ."Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"..
There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day
while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept
rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in
his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow
his country's government and install a new communist regime. In the midst of his story, he looked at the
professor and asked a strange question. He asked: "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said that it was no joke.
"You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find
it and begin to come every day to eat the free food".
"When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are
used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another
side of the fence". "They get used to that and start to eat again.
You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side". "The pigs, which are
used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on
them and catch the whole herd".
"Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are
caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to
forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity."
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America . The
government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the
form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, tobacco
subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare entitlements, medicine, drugs, etc.,
while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time as the government forces us to participate in
many of these programs whether or not we want to.
One should always remember two truths: There is no such thing as a free lunch, and you can never hire
someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself. If you see that all of this
wonderful government "help" is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want
to share this with your friends.
God help us all when the gate slams shut!
Quote for today: "The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are now
outnumbered by those that vote for a living."
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