June 29, 2010

Is the democratic party socialist or communist?

Filed under: Politics — Tags: , , — SpaCeTraNce @ 12:10 am

These are just fact taken from http://www.dsausa.org !!!

Is the Democratic Party a socialist or communist party?

I’m not one who embraces the ‘conspiracy theories’ whole heartily. I do hold conservative values but it seems that the loud conservative voices out there are constantly using words like ’socialist’ or ‘communism’. So one day, when I should have been working on promoting my new business or finding a job I did some research and found some eye opening facts out there.

Here is what I did:

I googled a couple of things, then I googled “most influential socialist in America”. The first two results were wikipedia sites but the third one was a link to: http://www.dsausa.org/about/history.html .

The article was titled “A Brief History of the Left”. It was long. I read the first few paragraphs. It spoke of the rise of a socialist party/movement in America and worldwide. It also spoke of the communist party and their alleged involvement in the end of the Great Depression and the formation of the workers unions in America.

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radicals from a number of different groups — Socialists, Communists, and Trotskyists among them — played a central role in the struggles of the unemployed to win adequate relief in the early 1930s, and in the vast expansion of industrial unionism through the organization of the new Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) in the later 1930s. Socialists helped to organize Detroit autoworkers and southern sharecroppers; Communists were influential in drives to organize the auto, steel, electrical, and longshore industries, among others.

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So here was a website of the Democratic Socialist of America admitting to be working hand-in-hand with communist and influencing the American society.

WOW!!! Glenn, Hannity and others may be onto something. I listen to Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity but I sometimes do think that they can come up with this stuff for ratings. Until now I had never done the research myself.

The end of the article goes on to say how the different divisions of leftism/socialist/communism left the movement in a weakened state. These different schisms came together to form the Democratic Socialist of America.

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completing a formal merger in 1983. The merged organization, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), for the first time since the First World War brought together the various splinters of left opinion in America: former Socialists and Communists, former old leftists and new leftists, and many who had never been leftists at all.

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“Ok” I thought, “But does that mean the National Democratic Party is run by socialist?”

I did more research….

I clicked on the “Democratic Socialist of America” banner at the top of the page. I was brought to: http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html

I saw a Questions and Answer link. That opened up a pdf file http://www.dsausa.org/pdf/widemsoc.pdf

The first thing I noticed was in the opening paragraphs:

“Democracy and socialism go hand in hand. All over the world, wherever the idea of democracy has taken root, the vision of socialism has taken root as well—everywhere but in the United States.”

Everywhere but in the United States??? We are the economic super-power in the world and we are the one country that has not totally embraced socialism…. coincident??? I don’t think so!!! anyways that is my opinion… lets keep to the facts and their article….

Next I found:
“Democratic socialists do not want to create an all-powerful government bureaucracy. But we do not want big corporate bureaucracies to control our society either.”

The fact that they followed the first sentence with the word ‘but…‘ implies that they do want to create an all-powerful government bureaucracy. That is like following an apology with the word “but…“, if you are trying to still defend your position or actions you are not truly apologizing.

Next:
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In the short term we can’t eliminate private corporations, but we can bring them under greater democratic control. The government could use regulations and tax incentives to encourage companies to act
in the public interest

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WOW these people are flat out admiting to using big government to control the private sector. They actully say, “In the short term we can’t eliminate private corporations”, Does that mean that in the long term they can??? Does that mean that they can’t eliminate them but they want to????

The final unbelievable blow is:

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Q: Aren’t you a party that’s in competition with the Democratic Party for votes and support?

No, we are not a separate party. Like our friends and allies in the feminist, labor, civil rights, religious,
and community organizing movements, many of us have been active in the Democratic Party. We work with
those movements to strengthen the party’s left wing, represented by the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

The process and structure of American elections seriously hurts third party efforts. Winner-take-all
elections instead of proportional representation, rigorous party qualification requirements that vary from state
to state, a presidential instead of a parliamentary system, and the two-party monopoly on political power have
doomed third party efforts. We hope that at some point in the future, in coalition with our allies, an alternative
national party will be viable. For now, we will continue to support progressives who have a real chance at
winning elections, which usually means left-wing Democrats.

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Freaking unbelievable!!!! They don’t hide a thing. Here they are admitting to using the left-wind democrats to further the socialist/communist agenda.

Next I googled “Congressional Progressive Caucus”, this time I went with Wikipedia’s results http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus and found this:

“The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) is the largest caucus within the Democratic caucus in the United States Congress with 83 declared members, and works to advance progressive issues and positions.”

So these 83 members are supported by these socialist and communist. I urge you to look on the wikipedia site listed above and see if your senator is listed on it.

This was all done in a matter of minutes. I urge you to do some research yourself. Engage others in their own research!!!

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October 20, 2009

Does China Own America??

Filed under: Politics — Tags: , , , , — SpaCeTraNce @ 1:35 pm

china flag I’m not the one to be paranoid or of the conspiracy theorist type. So lets look at the facts:

According the the latest number I could find from July 2009 China Own 800.5 billion dollars of national debt. More then any other foreign investor. Surprisingly the top investor was Japan until September 2008.

The Empire State Building was lit up the colors of the Chinese flag on the 60th anniversary of communism in China!

The White House allegedly agreed to allow the Chinese to raise their flag on the grounds(Ellipse) near the White House.

What is your opinion?

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September 26, 2009

What is deficit spending economics? Will the stimilus plans work?

Filed under: Politics — Tags: , , , , , , , — SpaCeTraNce @ 1:29 pm

“After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: pay-as-you-go, no new deficit spending. Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt.” -Nancy Pelosi, 2007

Wow what a contrast in ideology from 2007 to today!!!

What is the deficit?

That’s the amount that the government spends each year in excess of what its tax, tariff, and fee revenues bring in. The government then must borrow to make up the difference. It’s the accumulation of deficits year after year that makes up the total national debt. Source: http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/ve/library/debt.pdf

What is deficit spending economics?

When a business borrows money to expand we call it deficit spending. When a developer borrows money to build we call it deficit spending. When a person, a business or a government agency borrows money to invest in what it is doing we call that deficit spending. Just as the developer and the business has a plan to invest make profit and pay back the money plus interest therefore the government has to have a plan to prosper and repay the money (in theory).

From what I understand deficit spending economics has its roots in what is called Keynesian economics and Roosavelt’s New Deal. The hope is that with every dollar that the government spends it will produce two, three or four dollars in the private sector.

Harvard economist Robert Barro did a study where he looked at federal spending and the gross domestic product during World War I, World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam. What he found, was surprising, the multiplier effect was 0.8% which meant that for every dollar the government spent 80 cents were added to the GDP. Which means the multipler effect is in the negative, the government was losing money on it’s ‘investment’. Mr. Barro also states, “There are reasons to believe that the war-based multiplier of 0.8 substantially overstates the multiplier that applies to peacetime government purchases.” meaning the multiplier would be even less during peacetimes. So we could being seeing a 50 cent return on every dollar that is spent to ’stimulate’ the economy. Take into account the fact that the government also has to pay interest on all the money that is being borrowed and you end up with a scary scenario. Source: Rober J. Barro, “Government Spending Is No Free Lunch: Now the Democrats Are Peddling Voodoo Economics,” Wall Street Journal January 22, 2009, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123258618204604599.html

In conclusion:

The feds are taking a huge gamble with all this spending. I hope for the sake of our children that they are right (no pun intended). I hope my gut instinct and the views of most of the working, tax paying Americans is wrong.

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September 25, 2009

Have you hugged James Madison lately?

Filed under: Politics — Tags: , , , , , — SpaCeTraNce @ 9:55 am

Source: http://www.ktbb.com/youtellme/2009/09/24/have-you-hugged-james-madison-lately/

Exactly 220 years ago today, the first Congress of the United States approved twelve articles of amendment to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. Ten of those proposed articles were eventually ratified by the states and became a part of the Constitution.

Today, we know those ten articles as the Bill of Rights.

Prior to the birth of the United States, nearly every citizen on earth was to one degree or another under the rule of a czar or a king or a potentate of some sort. The monarch limited the citizens to a much greater degree than the citizens limited the monarch.

To over simplify it worked like this. Live on land that I own, grow what I tell you to grow, give to me what I tell you to give and in return I, the king, will do my best to keep the emperor from the other side of the mountain from coming in and burning your village.

Whether they wanted to or not, the citizens of the kingdom had traded liberty for security.

The founders wished to stand that ages-old model on its head. In the American colonies, the people were willing to largely take their chances with respect to security if the government would just leave them alone.

And the colonies thus became states and the states convened to write a constitution that created a federal government with specific – and very limited powers.

And yet, almost immediately, those limits seemed to many, insufficient. Many of the citizens of the new country were concerned that the federal government could and would overstep.

And thus James Madison proposed in the very first meeting of the Congress of the United States twelve articles of amendment. Madison’s proposed amendments were nothing more than a continuation of the heated battle during the Constitutional Convention concerning the appropriate level of power held by the federal government.

If the government under the Articles of Confederation that preceded the Constitution was too weak, the fight was on during the Constitutional Convention to make sure that the resulting government under the Constitution was not too strong.

Distrust of government ran high in 1789 and the Bill of Rights reflects that discomfort.

Thus the Bill of Rights prohibits Congress from establishing a national religion. The Bill of Rights prohibits denial of the right of the people to keep and bear arms. The Bill of Rights prohibits the denial of life, liberty or property without a due process of law, prohibits the federal government from forcing citizens to provide quarters to troops, prohibits the federal government from assuming powers not specifically granted by the Constitution.

What the people of the new American republic understood that we are gradually forgetting is that the king was very good at denying liberty but only marginally capable of providing security. Despite the king’s implicit promise, security for the peasants was a very tenuous proposition.

It is no different today. We don’t have a king but we have a burgeoning federal government with an increasingly imperial attitude and a very spotty record of making good on its promises. Those that believe that the government can provide security in an uncertain world do so in the face of a mountain of evidence to the contrary.

Despite having confiscated trillions in taxes over the past seven decades, Social Security is bankrupt. The same goes for Medicare. If you’re younger than about 59 years old, you have every reason to worry about collecting from these two programs.

Despite knowledge that it was coming days in advance, government proved ineffective at protecting the citizens of New Orleans from the ravages of Hurricane Katrina.

A mountain of regulation and an army of bureaucrats did not protect the economy from the mortgage meltdown.

Bernie Madoff stole billions of dollars from innocent men and women right under the noses of federal employees who were supposed to be watching him.

Beyond a certain rather minimal level, the government cannot provide you with security. To the extent that you desire security and can obtain it, you must do so for yourself.

Which is why the founders argued so vehemently over our Constitution. Our liberty is our security.

Today, as politicians seek to secure our favor and their continued employment by offering cradle to grave security, we would do well to remember the wisdom of our founders and vigorously embrace their circumspect view of government.

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September 8, 2009

Obama Authorizes Communist China’s Flag To Fly Over White House

Filed under: Politics — SpaCeTraNce @ 5:27 pm

By PUMA Pundit on September 4, 2009

Barack Obama has authorized the White House to fly Communist China’s flag on the South Lawn of the White House to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

flag above the white house

This is perhaps one of the strangest episodes in the history of this nation for a number of reasons.

For starters, the Constitution of China recognizes that country as a:

Dictatorship

So strike #1, we are hoisting the flag of a country which considers itself a dictatorship over the White House , the symbol of a government which came to be as a result of waging a war against the dictatorship of King George.

Secondly, the powers of the dictatorship are exercised by the Communist Party of China a party which to this day uses this flag as it’s official symbol:

Communist Flag

The flag of the Chinese Communist Party is prescribed in the party’s statutes as follows:

Chapter XI – The Emblem and the Flag of the Party

Article 51. The emblem of the Chinese Communist Party is made of the sickle and hammer.

Article 52. The flag of the Chinese Communist Party is a red flag charged with the golden emblem of the party.

Article 53. The emblem of the party and the flag of the party are the symbols and distinctive marks of the Chinese Communist Party. The organizations of the party at any level and all the members of the party shall preserve the inviolability of the emblem and of the flag of the party. Those shall be made and used according to the regulations.

*Incidentally, The hammer and sickle symbolizes the power of working people over those who provide jobs i.e the proleteriat.

So Strike #2, we are hoisting the flag of a nation which is governed by not only a dictatorship, but a self confessed communist dictatorship.

Thirdly, we cannot claim ignorance of all this since during the war between the Communists and the Nationalists (KMT), the United States played an important role by assisting the KMT with not only funding and military supplies and equipment worth billions of dollars, but we also got actively involved in the conflict by airlifting KMT troops around the country. (Killing hope: US military and CIA interventions since World War II By William Blum)

So Strike #3, we are hoisting the flag of a nation which is not only diametrically opposed to the principles which guide ours, but was also directly involved in conflict against us and our way of life a mere 60 years ago. A nation which has not repudiated communism or communist principles for that matter.

Indeed, what has changed? Nothing other than the fact that Barack Obama is the President and he is intent on dismantling everything that makes America the beacon of freedom in the world.

Incidentally, since we shall be flying the Chinese flag,China Flag maybe we also ought to fly the Cuban, Libyan and Venezuelan flags over the White House to celebrate the socialist/communist revolutions that took place in those countries.

ChinaDaily

The national flag of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) will be hoisted at the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on September 20, media reported Sunday.

Chinese associations in the United States had applied to hold a ceremony in front of the US President’s residence to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of PRC.

Chen Ronghua, chairman of Fujian Association of the United States, told reporters that their application was approved not only because of the sound Sino-US relations but also because China is a responsible country.

“Many Americans admire China due to the success of last year’s Beijing Olympics,” said Chen.

More than 1,000 people will attend the ceremony and the performances held after it, according to Zhao Luqun, who will direct the performances.

Zhao said the performances will demonstrate the friendship, magnanimous spirit and kindness of modern Chinese people.

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