Old is new again

I recently looked for a quote on the internet and came across a few that took me by surprise. See if these quotes from the past don’t have some meaning today:
“ America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.” – Josef Stalin.
Is our patriotism not lacking? I see people with their hats on sitting while the Flag passes by in a parade. They do nothing to acknowledge our symbol of freedom. I hear our elected officials say that peaceful protests are not patriotic like they were 4 years ago. Now they are full of radicals and racists. Wasn’t it a stigma to have a child out of wedlock at one time? I enjoy the female form as much as anyone but is it necessary to have 10 year old girls wearing pants that say “juicy” on them? What someone does in the privacy of their house/bedroom, is not my business. But must what was regulated to the bedroom be in out in the open now? Undeniably, God has been taken out of the classroom, off the playing field, and there are even those that want it taken off our money. Even our elected officials that claim to be regular churchgoers can’t seem to find a church.

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed – Josef Stalin. Truer words were never spoken. I have seen videos of children being taught songs to our President similar to those videos of children singing songs to Mao, Hitler, Lenin, Castro, and Chavez. I have seen copies of textbooks with obvious historical errors. Books that get the amendments to the Constitution wrong. History books talking about Nazi Germany that mention that people were killed with poison gas but say nothing about the gas chambers or crematoria.

“Destroy the family, you destroy the country.” - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Need I say more? How many people reading this will have dinner as a family tonight? How many reading this, and I know this is a touchy subject, are single parents? Divorce has become so easy that people leave at the slightest hint of trouble. Having been married for 23 years, I can say that it is not always peaches and cream but I made a commitment to her and she to me. Figure it out, work it out!

“The surest way to destroy a nation is to debauch its currency.” - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Is our government not doing this as you read this? Where in the Constitution does it state that the government can take my money to give to someone else? The dollar is no longer the power it once was and printing money to pay for budget deficits doesn’t help.

“Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.” - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Of course, if you listen to some of the readers of the Opine, they would have you believe that you should not have the right to keep weapons. You should check them in and out of an armory. That will do us well. Even Lenin knew that if the people had a means to resist, they would. In 1976, Washington, D.C., enacted one of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation. Since then, the city's murder rate has risen 134% while the national murder rate has dropped 2%. Among the 15 states with the highest homicide rates, 10 have restrictive or very restrictive gun laws.

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
If I understand what is happening in our country today, we are offering up “free …” to everyone. Cash for clunkers, Stimulus Bill, Health care (though now if you don’t purchase health insurance you are subject to a tax, I mean “fine”, if you don’t purchase it – so much for free). The government (all the parties) are giving money away and then buying back the debt. Talk to any economist and you will see that this will lead to inflation. Meanwhile, our leaders are talking of taking even more money from the 1% of the people that make 22% of the money and already pay 40% of all the taxes because they don’t pay their fair share. That will help! (sarcasm for those that don’t realize it)

“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
With our new President in office less than a year, we already have children being taught to sing praises to him. Need I say more?

“The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.” -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
I actually find this to be a humorous statement because the press is anything from free. The fringe media, ABC, CBS, NBC all shill for Obama. Most newspapers, Star Beacon included, are pro Obama (remember the Star Beacon endorsed Obama) and rarely if ever print opposing views –so much so that if you are reading this, I am surprised.

“We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.” -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
This has been going on for years. Both major parties are guilty. As we move more and more from people being responsible to take care of themselves and our children are taught in “the story of stuff” that “it is the job of the government to watch out for us, to take care of us” we move more and more towards Socialism. It is not the governments job to watch out for us or to take care of us. It is our job. It is the governments job to provide for our protection from enemies both foreign and domestic. Not to protect us from failure. It is not the governments job to provide us with health care. It is our job to seek out and provide for our own care.