This news item didn’t get near the media coverage I thought it would. But, then again, the media generally does not like to expose Comrade Hillary’s red side.
From The Washington Times:
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined a broad economic vision yesterday, saying it’s time to replace an “on your own” society with one based on shared responsibility and prosperity.
“There is no greater force for economic growth than free markets. But markets work best with rules that promote our values, protect our workers and give all people a chance to succeed,” she said. “Fairness doesn’t just happen. It requires the right government policies.”
We’re all familiar with her statement from 2004:
We’re saying that for America to get back on track,
we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you.
We’re going to take things away from you
on behalf of the common good.”
Then at the 2007 DNC winter meeting:
recorded the highest profits in the history of the world.
I want to take those profits.
Then at a health care forum in Las Vegas this year:
by taking away money from people who are doing well now …”
Hillary Clinton has been trying to become a “centrist” before the 2008 Presidential election. Her “move to the center” is nothing more than the usual phony appeal from a dedicated Leftist for no other reason than to gather votes. In other words, she’s lying, but the real truth is beginning to seep out of her pores.
But let’s look more closely at her weekend statements. Hillary has now decided that a society based on the value of the individual should henceforth be referred to as an “on your own” society. The phrase “on your own” certainly exemplifies the concept of individuality. It implies that each and every person in this country is an individual who carries the primary responsibility for their success or failure on their own shoulders.
A “we’re all in it together” society will shortly turn into a society of lazy unemployed people living off the fruits of another person’s labor. Look at the French “we’re all in it together society.”
Hillary exemplifies the essential difference between a Liberal and a Conservative. The Conservative believes that the individual lives for themselves while the Liberal believes that the individual exists to serve society. Conservatives believe that the individual should be free to act freely and independently so long as they don’t violate the rights of others while Liberals believe that for the individual to act freely and independently is a violation of the rights of others.
Conservatives (and especially Libertarians) believe that the individual owns himself. A Liberal believes that the individual belongs to society, an entity to be exploited for something called “the common good.”
The Democrats, who can now be classified properly as Socialists, gain power and votes by emphasizing class warfare, declaring that they are for the working people and against the rich and powerful. They convince people that by taking from the “haves” to give to the “have-nots” that a more just and equitable society is created. They ignore the fact that this methodology penalizes the productive, whose efforts have been responsible for the wealth that the nation presently enjoys. They also neglect to mention that government cannot create wealth, but can only possess it by taking from those who earned it. They also neglect to tell you that administrative costs for the bureaucrats to administer the programs that steal from the rich to give to the poor consume much of the money that is stolen and only a small percentage goes to those they profess to want to help.
The Conservative/Libertarian believes that the best thing a person can do in this life is to live their own life in responsible and self-sufficient manner so as not to impose a burden on others. The Liberal believes that we have a duty to live our lives for the benefit of others or for society; to do anything else is to be “selfish” or “greedy.”
Her “on your own” usage is nothing less than a negative reference to individualism. Her reference to an “we’re all in it together” society represents her strongly held belief in collectivism. She has ceased trying to hide the fact she is a card-carrying Socialist; she admits it openly and happily now in her bid to “out Liberal” Obama.
You don’t matter as much as “the whole”.
You exist to serve the needs of your fellow men,
with government as your life’s puppetmaster.
She also told the students that we needed to be “pairing growth with fairness.” Merriam-Webster says that to be “fair” is to be “marked by impartiality and honesty” and “consonant with merit or importance”. Yet to Comrade Hillary “fairness” means means not so much whether a person is free to apply themselves, to work hard, and to make good decisions in order to acquire wealth, as it does whether or not the wealth is spread evenly among the people. Remember that to most Liberals wealth is distributed by the government, not earned by the individual.
Fairness = you must earn your own income to live as well as subsidize your neighbor.
Also she is publicly stating that we are too stupid to realize what the common good is, but she knows best how to spend the money in your wallet.
She even states that “Fairness doesn’t just happen. It requires the right government policies.” Yep, you cannot have true fairness unless the government steps in and regulates and portions it to the populace. Fairness is brought about when the government redistributes income (a.k.a. ‘taxes’). Take from those who have, give to those who have not.
Or, in the words of her mentor Karl Marx, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
Socialism is something Hillary comes by honestly, though Hillary’s activist work at Yale, monitoring the civil rights of the Black Panthers, won her a summer internship at the Berkeley office of attorney Robert Treuhaft in 1972. A hardline Stalinist, Treuhaft had quit the Communist Party in 1958 only because it was losing members and no longer provided a good platform for his activism. “Treuhaft is a man who dedicated his entire legal career to advancing the agenda of the Soviet Communist Party and the KGB,” notes historian Stephen Schwartz.
But don’t fret, Hillary, because there are others that share your views:
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“It is thus necessary that the individual should come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole … that above all the unity of a nation’s spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual.” – Adolph Hitler, 1933
“Fascist ethics begin … with the acknowledgment that it is not the individual who confers a meaning upon society, but it is, instead, the existence of a human society which determines the human character of the individual.” – Mario Palmieri, “The Philosophy of Fascism” 1936 “We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.” – Nikita Khrushchev, 1956 “All our lives we fought against exalting the individual …” – Vladimir Lenin “We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans …” – Bill Clinton, 1993 “We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.” – Hillary Clinton, 1993 |
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