Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Walter E. Williams---Socialism Promises a Utopia, but Delivers Suffering

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  • Presidential contenders are in a battle to out-give one another.

"Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., proposes a whopping $50,000 per student college loan forgiveness. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., proposes free health care for all Americans plus illegal aliens. 
Most Democratic presidential candidates promise free stuff that includes free college, universal income, “Medicare for All,” and debt forgiveness.
Their socialist predecessors made promises, too.

  • “Freedom and Bread” was the slogan used by Adolf Hitler during the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi) campaign against President Paul von Hindenburg. 
  • Hitler even promised, “In the Third Reich every German girl will find a husband.”
  • Stalin promised a great socialist-Marxist society that included better food and better worker conditions.
  • China’s Mao Zedong promised democratic constitutionalism and the dream that “farmers have land to till.” These, and other promises, gave Mao the broad political support he needed to win leadership of the entire country in 1949.

Socialism promises a utopia that sounds good, but those promises are never realized..."
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