Showing posts with label socialism bernie sanders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label socialism bernie sanders. Show all posts

Monday, March 14, 2016

Socialism Defined

We have had unbridled socialism for the banks and corporations forever. Some refer to it as corporate welfare. It's real name is National Socialism aka Nazism. Ron Paul referred to is as mild Fascism but lately it is not so mild.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander or so they say but maybe that is good for the gander is not necessarily good for the goose? Corporate socialism is not working. American democracy is gone. What replaced it was plutocracy but the plutocracy has given way to the kleptocracy and the kleptocrats. One prime example of that is when the financial industry fuck the American people so hard that they ended up fucking themselves and then extorted the taxpayers to bail them out. Many of these whores gave themselves million dollar bonuses with that taxpayer bailout money. Corporate socialism is Nazism.



True socialism is merely a more fair economic system than capitalism where instead of the corporations and banks owing the government the government/the people has ownership over the corporations. Republicans hate that idea and they hate it because it would mean a more equitable distribution of wealth. Corporate Republican hate that idea because in the sick sick evil mind of a corporate Republican the one who dies with the most wins. The base of the Republican party are ignorant, uneducated, low information hate mongering bigoted dumb asses. Proof of that is the ground swell of support for Trump and Cruz and the lack of support for John Kasich. The majority of Republican voters love to toss words like socialism and Marxism around without have a shadow of a clue as to what those words mean. They hear criminal trash like thief Shawn Hannity, drugster Rush Limbaugh and crybaby Glenn Beck using those words so the righties repeat those word and parrot the phrases. I doubt if Beck, Limbaugh and Hannity can define socialism and it they could define it I doubt they could understand how it works.

Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterized by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production; as well as the political ideologies, theories, and movements that aim at their establishment.



Alan Grayson sent me the following.


Dear Mr Bastardo, 

The blood-libel against Bernie Sanders is that he admits – he admits! – that he’s a democratic socialist.

I will quote Sen. Sanders on this: “Let me define for you, simply and straightforwardly, what democratic socialism means to me. It builds on what Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, when fought for guaranteed economic rights for all Americans.” (Like a decent minimum wage, for instance.)

But that got me wondering – what is a socialist? If you listen to the Republicans talk about socialists, they seem to mean that socialists are moochers. Or, as Mitt Romney framed it, the “47 percent” – the ones who receive benefits of some kind from the government.

Like veterans’ healthcare. Like pensions. Like Social Security and Medicare. Like unemployment insurance. Like student loans. Like FHA or VA mortgages. Like food stamps. Like that.

I’m looking at my dogs right now, nine-year-old Maltese twins. Take a look:
As you look at this picture, ask yourself this: Do you see any socialists?
Are my dogs socialists? Are these moochers, or poochers?

These dogs can do nothing all day long, and they still get their food and water. (Admittedly, the food is dog food.) Whenever they’re sick, they get free medical care. (One of them just had a bone spur removed, but now he’s got his hops back.) When they were puppies, they received free education, in terms of learning tricks and commands. (They will spin, and play dead, in return for a treat.) No matter how hard I try, I can’t even get them to do the laundry or wash the dishes (although they are willing to lick them). I suppose that I could try to hire them out as service dogs, but most likely, they would just run in circles, chasing each other’s butts.

They do “protect” the house, all 7 lbs. each, by barking loudly whenever anyone approaches. Including my children. And whenever a stranger dares to enter the house, they will . . . lick him.

Oh, and speaking of my children -- Are they socialists?
I pay for their shelter, their food, their clothing, their transportation, their tuition, their health insurance, their phones, their computers and toys (much the same thing, to them), their personal care products, and their Hulu subscription. And what do I get in return?

Well, their love. But beside that?

How about my Mom -- Is she a socialist?

I love her very much. She has been an incredible mom, for an amazing 58 years in a row. But the fact is that she hasn’t worked a day in almost two decades now. (Don’t get me wrong. I’m not jealous of her. Actually, I envy her.)

There are 150 million people in this country who work, and there are 170 million people who don’t. Plus over 200 million dogs, cats and pet fish, who never worked a day in their lives, and never will. If they ever get the vote, look out.

Wow. It’s just like Sen. Joe McCarthy said – this country is just crawling with socialists. It’s going to the dogs..

Which bodes well for the Sanders campaign, one would think. As the old saying goes, even a dog knows when it’s being kicked. And that’s exactly what’s been happening to the American middle class, for a long, long time.

Courage,
Rep. Alan Grayson

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Socialism Defined

Socialism is defined as an economic theory, system or movement where the production and distribution of goods is done, owned and shared by the citizens of a society.

We have socialism when it comes to the corporations and banks and that would not be so bad if the banks and corporations were forced to play by the rules. They don't because of the Golden Rule and the Golden Rule states: The guys with the gold make the rules but they need not follow those rules.  

Socialism can work and work well. 




Socialism is not a political system. It is an economic system just as capitalism is not a political system but rather an economic system. Neither system will serve the people unless there is representative government that reflects the will of the people. We don't have that. That said, under a socialist economy there will be a more equitable distribution of wealth. That would lead to more power to the people.





The US political system has been called a plutocracy and it was a plutocracy but today the rich don't simply rule; now they steal and the steal with immunity. America is now a kleptocracy. We still have capitalism but it is vulture capitalism. 

Under socialism there would be a more equitable distribution of wealth. CEO's boards of directors and all other corporate officers will get paid what they are worth unlike Carly Firoina who nearly destroyed Hewlitt Packard. Workers would have the power to fire CEOs and be on boards of directors. 

MORE THEFT!



Americans are working harder than ever but their wages don't reflect that. Rand Paul is telling American to work even harder. What a fucking asshole. Anyone who tells you that hard work pays off is full of shit. That may have been true at one time but it is not true now. 







As you can see CEOs in America make obscene salaries and that's is not counting their other compensation. If you think this is fair, you are someone I would goad into a fight and I'd put your evil ass in a coma.  

To any right wing asshole reading this; before you call someone a socialist learn what socialism is. Otherwise STFU.

RELATED: The Black Lives Matter Plants At Bernie Sander Rallys



Those ignorant loud mouthed whores who have been staling and disrupting Sander's message are most likely unwitting plants controlled by the RNC. Republican dirty tricks are nothing new. Sanders handled it well by being gracious and their puerile plan backfired. 

In the above video a Sanders supporter exposes the idiocy of the ludicrous and ill fated Black Lives Matter movement. Please take the time to hear what this man has to say about those rude, crude and crazy women.