– Winston Churchill
Because I lived the utopian nightmare of
socialism/communism, I think I am qualified to explain the big lie to the young
men and women who dreamily and robotically applaud the socialist candidate,
Bernie Sanders, for his promise of handouts and especially of free college
education.
I am sure, the young
Americans, many with worthless easy-cheesy social work and racial/gender studies degrees
and some with worthy college degrees, who find themselves unemployed, will be
happy to know that, under Bernie’s mega trillions economic plan, they will find
themselves unemployed for free, no college debt. They will “Feel the Bern” of
socialism and rejoice in it.
Education, like medical care, was free, but it came with
huge strings attached and it was not worth much because the pay was equal,
regardless of effort. And you had to go where the government decided to send
you in order to pay back your indebtedness to government. Nothing was free,
just because they said it was free, it was basic economics, even though
socialists called it something else.
If you were an educator, you had to teach in a small and
remote village without roads, running water, and electricity, housed in some
primitive home with a thatched roof. If you were a doctor, you had to practice
for years in a far-away community who had never seen a nurse in their lives or
the inside of a hospital.
To get to your assigned post, you had to travel the last
leg of your trip in an oxen-pulled wagon.
If you were an engineer, you had to go by train to different locations around
the country where the dear leader was building his latest megalomaniacal
projects. Nobody ate for free! You had to work, even if it was just sweeping
streets, planting trees, weeding the fields, gathering crops, or digging
ditches. Nobody was too educated for menial labor.
Before you were able to enter the university, you had to
pass the muster of many examination boards, starting in middle school and
college. If your grades were good, that was not enough; your communist pedigree
and activism had to equally match your academic performance. If your parents
were not members in good standing with the communist party and licked their
boots, it did not matter how smart you were or how perfect your grades were.
Your chance of getting in was slim to none. On the other hand, students who
barely passed in high school but were children of prominent communist party leaders
got in first. Membership in the communist elite had its privileges.
Free Castro-style medical care was one of the staples of
socialism but it came with rationing of care, unqualified personnel, bribes to
be seen on time or first, rationing of drugs, empty pharmacy shelves, and early
and unnecessary death at the hands of uncaring and half-baked doctors and
atrocious hospital conditions.
You should ask yourselves, if socialist health care is so
great, why do Hollywood elites and wealthy foreigners seek treatment for their serious
illnesses at the best hospitals money can buy in the United States? Why are
they not going to Cuba? Michael Moore spoke non-stop about the superiority of
Castro’s medical care when compared to our evil capitalist healthcare.
Did we get free cable? Not really, we got two channels
daily and one educational channel at certain hours. And we had to pay every
month voluntarily. Inspectors would show up unannounced randomly to check our
passbook to make sure all the payment stamps were in order for both TV and
radio subscriptions. Nobody got to listen to the dear leader’s Pinocchio speeches
for free or to classical music.
We did get subsidized housing because salaries were so
equally low. It wasn’t much space, 300-400 square feet, the size of a nice
hotel room today, but it was in brand-new, concrete block apartments, with
wonderful stairs we had to take turns to sweep and mop, and no elevators. The
proletariat needed a good workout every day, going up and down.
Not only will you not get a free Prius or Smart Car, you
will be lucky to ride the public transportation for a subsidized fee. We got to
ride on buses with subsidized fares or we could walk as far as our feet could
carry us. Biking was a daredevil’s adventure – many riders and pedestrians were
run over by cars and buses. Life was pretty worthless in those times. Offenders
still went to jail though. And bikes
disappeared before you could say “stolen.”
Dormitories looked like army barracks, with walls peeling
paint like a bad manicure, and furnished with WWII-like era beds with chicken
wire. University cafeterias served the standard fare, cabbage or soup with a few
pieces of meat floating on top and plenty of cooking rapeseed oil and garlic to
drown the lack of taste. Bread was plentiful, hard as a rock, and difficult to
chew.
We got to go to the movies in a large group for one leu a
viewing because we were so poor. It was the commie’s way to pacify the oppressed
and throw them a bone once in a while in the form of subsidized movies, a
concert, or a play. Only the elites could afford such entertainment on a
regular basis.
For those of you young and entitled Americans who like
the idea of anything free, especially marijuana clinics, rest-assured that,
under communism, you will be put in jail for any drug use and they will lose
the key forever.
There was plenty of booze and cigarettes but income was
so equally low, you had to give up other important staples in order to buy
them. You could drown your miserable life and sorrow in cheap vodka or
home-made “tzuica” and darken your lungs with economical “Marasesti”
cigarettes. It is still quite fashionable to smoke all over Europe today. You
cannot look cool and sophisticated without a lit cigarette and a cup of very
bitter and thick coffee.
But don’t take my word for it, vote for Bernie Sanders or
his Democrat Alinsky-style adversary, and you shall “Feel the Bern” while you
stand in line in sub-zero temperatures to get your “free” welfare rations.
For all my “free” education I received under communism, I
had to pay the state back the sum they decided it was worth, once I left the
country to live free in the United States. Why should the “capitalist pigs and
spies” benefit from my excellent communist education?
Freedom has a heavy price but young people are mesmerized
by the empty words of current communists because they never studied their
history or forgot what little they did know and are now going to repeat it,
with disastrous results.
And those of you who are so accustomed to smart phones, iPad,
iPhone, blackberries, laptops, and other gadgets, Smart Cars, your expensive
bikes, remember that equal and meager pay will not buy you such luxuries. And,
if you are on welfare and the government is providing them, they can be taken
away just as easily as they are given.
Look at the “free” healthcare you are now getting under
Obamacare for a hefty monthly premium, huge deductions, and large fines for non-compliance
(in 2016, $695 or 2.5% of income, whichever is greater), if you are lucky to
find a physician who will accept your worthless government insurance, or find a
qualified specialist within your area. Stories of the victims of such socialist
healthcare are beginning to filter through the Internet.
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“The founders of European Socialism, the Marxist-Leninist
scholars, all a bunch of ideologues without the slightest experience in
job-creation, advocated free education from k-12 and college. When the
communist economies held a tight grip on the people’s lives, the slogan
promulgated all over was “Social Equality.” Sure, by then, everybody was
equally miserable and poor. As far as the education was concerned, everyone was
equally brainwashed and forced to accept revised history, junk science,
fabricated political data, and submission to the rules of the Proletarian
Dictatorship. The trend still continues to this day, all over the word, shrewdly
disguised as new democracies and social justice.”
Thank you for bringing life under Socialism/Communism out in pictures and words that even the under-educated useful idiots can understand. Maybe they will start to research the meaning and policy structure connected with these terms. Linda
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