Socialism or Democracy - It's Our Choice

Government Control is Socialism Not Democracy

By Carolyn R Scheidies, published Jan 31, 2008
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The United States of America was created as a democratic republic. It was all about freedom and democracy. But the democracy we live in today is very different from what our founders envisioned. Socialism and control from the top down has crept in and is taking a larger and larger bite out of both our freedom and our democracy. Who hasn't complained about one or another government program? The media makes it their business to inform us how badly government agencies are doing. Government laws, backed up by innumerable freedom strangling regulations, entangle every single citizen.

Government has become a huge octopus-like vacuum, sucking up everything in its path. Though as citizens, we know government programs are both wasteful and inefficient, most of us are so programed with the idea that government is the answer rather than the problem that we vote for those who promise us the most government perks. We're exchanging illusionary security for freedom.

What we as citizens don't seem to "get" is that the more the government shells out for us, the more they control our lives and the further away we get from either freedom or democracy. Each dollar we take in handouts obligates us to a host of regulations that strangles free enterprise, destroys initiative and undermines what this nation is all about-freedom to live without undue interference. It also further enmeshes us in a socialistic system that has failed in every country that has tried it.

In a republic or a democracy, the people have ultimate freedom to live and control their lives. Socialism, as actually played out, means a few hold resources and dole them out as they deem necessary to maintain their control-not for the good of all.

 
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  • Few alive today even understand what the term democratic republic means.
  • Government socialism has done a wonderful job of managing our resources. Look at FEMA and Katrina.
  • We seem bent on surrendering more and more of our freedom in order to obtain government funds.
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Check out my recently published content on AC: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/754119/americas_oneparty_authoritarian_system.html America's One-Party, Authoritarian System: A Bogus Democracy

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Posted on 05/17/2008 at 2:05:57 AM

 
I personally believe in individualism and a free market, but the terms "left" and "right" as well as "socialism," "democracy" and "capitalism" are very badly defined, and the "vertical" Libertarian-Authoritarian axis is in my opinion the only one that really matters. Right now we have something resembling authoritarian socialism for the masses, and capitalism and individualism, permissive to the point of absurdity for the elite. This, combined with extreme nationalism, racism, and militarism fits the classic definition of fascism, or more to the point, National Socialism; Nazism. Corporations are extremely totalitarian structures, that have no real political beliefs or loyalties, and when they gain control of the government as they have of ours, the entire government answers only to the non-democratic structures that are its sponsors. The people who say they want a smaller government usually want less regulation of their profits, and more regulation of your personal life, and end up ru

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Posted on 05/17/2008 at 2:05:23 AM

 
It is amazing that some have fallen so hard for the neo-con rihetoric. We have a bad government because they are trying to destroy and use it as a tool for enriching themselves and cronies, while they subjugate us further, and lemmings like the writer of this article are more than happy to let them.

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Posted on 03/26/2008 at 7:03:11 PM

 
Prime example: the program Eisenhower started to benefit young teens living in poverty. The artist that did not need the grant money gets it to take photo's of his lover urinating in his mouth and the government says they can not censor. Well, my sister would not call that art, she would call it porno. Another was a school teacher that took a year off to write a book. Um, I do not know who benefited from the book, never saw it mentioned. Then there is the lady artist who is comfortably retired that got a grant to make a coffee table book of her photography. I forget how much money she told me she was granted for her art project. In the meantime some kid decided to go out and sell drugs for a living because there are not enough jobs. The biggest handouts are to those top 3% of wealth holders. Like Hoffman La Roche, Halliburton, Kellogg, Root and Brown...

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Posted on 01/31/2008 at 8:01:21 PM

 
"American citizens are so dependent upon government handouts"? We are forced to pay a day and a 1/2 of wages for taxes. We could not decline paying into Social Security. Yet the gov borrows from our money, does not pay that part of the gov back and now we are told we will not get the promised benefits. Or they use us. They use our money to buy $100. screwdrivers from their friends, because their friends will kick back some of the profit (hate to use Clinton again, but they are masters of that sleigh of hand). The pharmaceutical companies that give lots of $$$ to their gov friends then get special FDA approval. The thinking was "the insurance company is going to pay for it" so overcharging was the way to go. Of course, not turning a profit forced the Ins. companies to raise premiums and it just keeps going. Yeah some get government handouts~the ones that know how to milk the system.

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Posted on 01/31/2008 at 8:01:46 PM

 
I would much prefer socialism than to the Nazi Hitler government and society we are now forced to live with and under. There used to be these people living upon the land we call the United States. Some went out a hunted buffalo, others cleaned it, while yet others were tanning the hides for clothes. Nobody owned the land, everyone was free to pick up their tribe and follow the weather. The stationary tribes rotated crops and so on. The elderly took care of the babies while the younger adults took care of the elderly. None went hungry or without shelter. Now that is a simplified version of socialism and I think that much better than a Capitalistic society where the rich get tax breaks and the poor get nada. If the rich were not selfish and greedy, there would be a more equal distribution of wealth and no poor. Take a look at Dubai and Bill Clinton and Jeb Bush's profits.

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Posted on 01/31/2008 at 8:01:52 PM

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