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Socialism vs. communism: Know the difference – Marietta Times

Socialism: State owns and controls everything apartments/homes, wages, where you go, what you drive, kids education and etc. On national news every day, we have heard people on left or social reports. Question is, lefties protesters, called communist? No, these are people who are worked up like the lynching mob in western moves. They are tough socialists in classes. They believe teacher knows best and that state is God.

Retirement, yes, for only as long as you can do light work, then you are put in a state home and in a few weeks the family will get a letter you passed away. You want a baby? You must fill out a form, allowed (1), sex of baby. If you are wrong, baby is killed. If you have twins, of collect sex you want, one will be killed. If you cannot pick, both will be killed. Years to wait to try again.

(Food) A mother waits in line to get food for her family, knowing down the block is a store that has lots of everything she needs. Shes not allowed in that store, its for party leaders, visitors, state masters. You ask a woman how she likes this? Most will only look at you, maybe one would answer. You know how it is. A worker works overtime, let us say he makes $10 an hour, here he would get $80, in socialism he has to share this $80 with his co-workers equally. They have KGB, we have IRS. They have spies, we have traders or leakers or informers. Same thing.

May 1, 1921 Socialism took over Russia. Russian Independence Day. Ninety-seven percent of farmers were killed, more starved to death in 1921 than they lost in WW II, total losses. People looked at Germany as liberators, thats why when Russia retook lost land, they had a purged land policy. In other words they killed everyone, and everything. Its a holiday here in the county. Mayday.

The lucky few of us who will be killed at the beginning people like me (I was once asked, are you willing to give up everything I have worked for all my life) who try to inform you all about communism, police officers, military, government leaders, federal and local, newspaper people, and farmers, will be killed extremely soon. Farmers are the most reluctant to give up the farm. (small farmer has over a $100k invested in farm) not just a house. Its a way of life. Worth dieing for. They are part of the land, and the land is part of them. Rest of you will starve.

Communism is a monetary system not a government. In Russia they teach that the only good communist is a Russian communist. When they take over, they will kill the local communist, that is not married to a Russian spy.

What is a communist? A radical view as a subversive or revolutionary. Look it up in dictionary.

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Congratulations To Bolivarian Socialism – Venezuela Stops Publishing Money Supply Data – Forbes

Congratulations To Bolivarian Socialism - Venezuela Stops Publishing Money Supply Data
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It's not unusual for people to be a bit more reticent about information that reflects badly upon them than they are about stuff that makes them look good. But we do still normally expect governments to keep pumping out the usual economic data. The US ...

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Is Socialism the Source of Scandinavian Happiness? – Townhall

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Posted: Mar 23, 2017 12:01 AM

The results of a new study were announced this week, and they are consistent with previous findings. The five million or so people who live in the Scandinavian country of Norway are among the happiest on earth.

Writing for Reuters (3/20/17), Patricia Reaney noted: Norway displaced Denmark as the world's happiest country in a new report released on Monday in a study that ranked 155 nations on earth. The United States ranked as 14th happiest, down from 13th last year.

At the bottom of the list? Countries in sub-Saharan Africa, along with Syria and Yemen. The research was conducted and compiled by the UN for the World Happiness Report 2017.

Reaney adds, The rankings are based on six factors---per capita gross domestic product, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, social support and absence of corruption in government or business.

Norway often tops the list of happiest nations. Why is that? Its not the weather. Meanwhile, there are many beautiful places throughout Norway, including the fjords.

My wife is from Norway. We were married in Norway. Most of her family still lives there. We have visited many times. Why do Norwegians tend to be happier?

I would argue that it is the Christian values that can still be found in many parts of Norway. Even todays secular-minded Norwegians are benefiting from Christianitys residue. About a millennium ago, Norway was the scourge of Europe, with the Vikings ravaging people all over the Continent. God, save us from the Normans, went up the prayers. And God answered by converting the Vikings to Jesus. Its one of the great stories of history.

Now Norway, formerly the land of Viking violence, hands out international peace prizes.

When the Reformation took place some 500 years ago, the Scandinavian countries threw their lot with Martin Luther and company. To this day, many of the state-churches in the Scandinavian countries are Lutheran.

When Bernie Sanders ran against Hilary Clinton on the Democratic side of the aisle last year, he made a big deal about the alleged success of the socialism of the Scandinavian countries. Others made similar points. Scandinavia flourishes because it is socialist lite. Were they correct?

Nima Sanandaji, whose family is from Iran, is from Sweden and is the author of the book, Debunking Utopia: Exposing the Myth of Nordic Socialism (WND Books, 2016).

In an interview we did for one of our D. James Kennedy Ministries television specials exposing the problems of socialism, Sanandaji told me, Nordic countries are not socialist. The prime minister of Denmark came to the U.S. at the end of 2015, went to Harvard, and spoke, and he said in effect, Stop saying that Denmark is socialist; were a market economy. And hes absolutely right, throughout their historyNordic countries have been perhaps the best example of how free markets create prosperity; and how high taxes, overly generous welfare, have destroyed the same prosperity. Today Nordic countries are very much market economies. They respect private property.

Sanandaji drilled deeper: Nordic countries are successful because of their unique culture, and this is why socialists only point to Nordic countries [as examples of successful socialism] because their success predates the welfare state and is because of culture, and their economic success is because of free markets. That is why they can never find a good case for socialism which is not about Nordic countries. Its all smoke and mirrors. [Emphasis mine].

Sanandaji points out in his book that Scandinavians who left Norway, Denmark, Sweden, etc. about a hundred years ago, when compared with their Nordic cousins who never left, tend to fare better by any comparison. He said, Nordic-Americans, because they have a Nordic culture of success, are already more successful than the Nordic people. He said there are 12 million Nordic-Americans, and they have a 50 percent higher living standard than do their cousins who never left Scandinavia.

Nima said something we dont hear often: Culture matters, and so what is Nordic cultural success? Now it has a lot to do with this Protestant, Lutheran working ethics---Protestant, Lutheran responsibility ethics, and the unfortunate thing is that that ethic has gradually been declining over time.

Sanandaji, an atheist, cannot be accused of a Christian bias. Yet he says retaining the Judeo-Christian traditions will be key to the future survival of the West.

Seeing the average Norwegian enjoying so many positive benefits tied to their national Christian heritage does not surprise me. They are consistently listed as among the happiest nations on earth. That is primarily because of their Christian heritage, which, sadly, is fading over time.

At the end of the day, each of us is as happy as we make our mind to be. To paraphrase that quintessential colonial American, Ben Franklin: Contentment makes poor men rich. Discontentment makes rich men poor.

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Fox News Digital Short Shows Socialist Venezuela in Midst of Chaos – Washington Free Beacon

BY: Jack Heretik March 22, 2017 9:17 am

Adigital short called "Democrats Love Socialism" by Ami Horowitz of Fox News was released on March 15 and highlights the struggles of citizens in socialist Venezuela, includingmass hunger and a high murder rate. Horowitz contrasts this struggle to Americans at the beginning of the short, who tell Horowitz there is nothing wrong with socialism.

In Venezuela, Horowitz walked with a man who was looking for acat or a dog to eat,and talked to people who claimedthey have to wait all day in a line to get just a small amountof food or milk. One woman said that she sometimes shakes at night due to hunger and passes out.

"Before all these problems started we were middle class, but now we are lower class," one Venezuelan woman said.

The Venezuelans Horowitz interviewed also discussedthe high crime rateandfrequent murders.

Horowitz said Venezuela has three times the amount of murder inthe United States, despite being less than one tenth of America's population. And although Venezuela bears strict gun laws, its capital city of Caracas has more death than Baghdad.

Venezuelanstold Horowitz about losing loved ones inshootings that are ignored by the police. The documentary has ascene where a man was just shot in a busy street, buta police officer casually walks by.

Horowitz then asked Venezuelans if socialism works, and what they think of the Americans who want it applied to the U.S.

"No, because if it really worked we wouldn't be in chaos and hunger," one man said.

"No, it doesn't work here," another man said. "It's all a lie they tell us."

"I would tell the Americans not to commit to that madness because that is all a lie," a woman said. "They lied to us. We don't have anything to eat. Crime has taken over."

Somepeople Horowitz spoke to said that those who advocate for socialism in the United States should go to Venezuelaand experience it first.

Horowitz closed the video by showing a woman preaching about socialism in the United States.

"They are one of the most productive, their people are the happiest, they have the least amount of crime, violence," the woman said. "There's nothing wrong with it in my eyes."

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