It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people. True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists. Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters. First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish. Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America. The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe. These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them? These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters. Then came Barack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of “pure” free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions. So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a “bold” move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our “wise” Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride. Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper…but a “freeman” whimper. So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set “fair” maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Frank…has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive. The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left. The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.
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May 30th, 2009 at 1:41 am
I don’t agree with all of that, but there are some damn good points. The BurgerKing eating, the gossip obsession of the “OC”, and mega preachers — that is on the mark for sure. The spending and government control of private industry — on the mark too.
May 30th, 2009 at 3:34 am
This article is completely ridiculous, it tells much more about the mood and thinking in Russia than about the US economy. It is unbelievable that the writer is accusing the US of being responsible for 70 years of communism in Russia (”The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.”) That is so absurd, especially because the same rethoric was used by the Soviet Union leaders only that back then they accused the US of sabotaging communism. The
article displays the same old anti americanism that all dictators around the world have used past WWII to distract the people from their own failures and it is no wonder that it does, because Pravda in the Soviet Union was the official newspaper of the communist party and is still close to that ideology today.
Relative to what is happening in Russia (most of the economy is controlled by the government, not only a car company and a couple of banks) the US is still one of the freest countries in the world.
May 30th, 2009 at 7:10 am
Seriously, this is like some angry child’s rant. America’s “dissent into Marxism,” doesn’t exist, because no one here believes in Marxism, NO ONE. Not the President, not anyone in the Congress, not anyone in the population. Just because someone is liberal in no way means they are a Marxist. Your rant against Burger King is just inane.
In the end, you’re just another conspiracy theory-loving dingbat who shouts, “THE SKY IS FALLING!”
May 30th, 2009 at 7:13 am
Also, if you took the time to read Pravda’s online forums, you’d know that it’s filled with crazy anti-Semites and holocaust deniers. Not exactly something you’d want to be associated with. Its articles are consistently inaccurate and bias.
May 30th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Putin Warns U. S. About Socialism
Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin has said the US should take a lesson from the pages of Russian history and not exercise “excessive intervention in economic activity and blind faith in the state’s omnipotence”.
“In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute,” Putin said during a speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.”
Sounding more like Barry Goldwater than the former head of the KGB, Putin said, “Nor should we turn a blind eye to the fact that the spirit of free enterprise, including the principle of personal responsibility of businesspeople, investors, and shareholders for their decisions, is being eroded in the last few months. There is no reason to believe that we can achieve better results by shifting responsibility onto the state.”
Putin also cautioned the U. .S against using military Keynesianism to lift its economy out of recession, saying, “in the longer run, militarization won’t solve the problem but will rather quell it temporarily. What it will do is squeeze huge financial and other resources from the economy instead of finding better and wiser uses for them.” Putin’s comments come in sharp contrast to Russia’s own military buildup and expansion.
Putin also echoed the words of conservative maverick Ron Paul when he said, “we must assess the real situation and write off all hopeless debts and bad assets. True, this will be an extremely painful and unpleasant process. Far from everyone can accept such measures, fearing for their capitalization, bonuses, or reputation. However, we would conserve and prolong the crisis, unless we clean up our balance sheets.”
“The time for enlightenment has come. We must calmly, and without gloating, assess the root causes of this situation and try to peek into the future.”
It just blows my mind that those warning us of Obama’s socialist agenda are Pravda and the ex-KGB officer, Putin. Our own press is so in love with the concept of Obama, they have become blind, deaf and dumb.
Remember what Lenin said about socialism, “The goal of socialism is communism.”
Current Communist Goals (1963) — remarks of Hon. A. S. Herlong, Jr., of Florida in the U. S. House of Representatives.
How do you think they’ve done since 1963?
More can be found here……. http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaLatest.htm
May 30th, 2009 at 11:40 am
In the middle of whatever other craziness Pravda puts out there, some of the points made in that article are on the money points rarely discussed in the U.S.
May 31st, 2009 at 3:29 pm
William it seems to me that you are the one with the socialist/communist agenda. You are the one that wants to put 200 million americans on unemployment and welfare and create the ultimate welfare state. Seems to me you also want to stop the spread of capitalism throughout the world.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:45 pm
david, you are not reading the article correctly as far as the US being responsible for Communism in Russia. He said Wall Street. There are many examples of those in the Banking Establishment as having propped up the Communists. Consequently, many of these people also propped up the Natzi’s as a hedge. You won’t read this in any history book though.
Kevin, you are the one who sounds like a ranting lunatic. The Federal Government taking ownership control of a company in dire straights, allocating ownership to the Unions who work there and foreign governments(Canada), dictating salaries, hirings, firings, and soon to come production decisions of crappy cars that no one will buy, is far beyond “Liberal.”
I wonder what bail out the new GM will get when no one decides to buy their vehicles?