“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of Liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day America will be a Socialist nation without knowing how it happened”
~Norman Thomas - Socialist Party Presidential candidate Civil Liberties Union, Houghton Mifflin, 1976
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Check’em out here, but you can see them below…
Sent from a friend…
Notice to All Employees
As of November 5, 2008, when Obama is officially elected into office, our company will install a few new policies which are in keeping with his new, inspiring issues of change and fairness:
1. All salespeople will be pooling their sales commissions into a common pool that will be divided equally between all of you. This will serve to give those of you who are underachieving a ‘fair shake.’
2. All hourly employees will be pooling their wages, including overtime, into a common pool, dividing it equally amongst yourselves. This will help those who are ‘too busy for overtime’ to reap the rewards from those who have more spare time and can work extra hours.
3. All top management will now be referred to as ‘the government.’ We will not participate in this ‘pooling’ experience because the law doesn’t apply to us.
4. The ‘government’ will give eloquent speeches to all employees every week, encouraging its workers to continue to work hard ‘for the good of all.’
5. The employees will be thrilled with these new policies because it’s ‘good to spread the wealth..’ Those of you who have underachieved will finally get an opportunity; those of you who have worked hard and had success will feel more ‘patriotic.’
6. The last few people who were hired should clean out their desks. Don’t feel bad though, because President Obama will give you ‘FREE’ healthcare, ‘FREE’ handouts, ‘FREE’ oil for heating your home, ‘FREE’ food stamps, and he’ll let you stay in your home for as long as you want even if you can’t pay your mortgage. If you appeal directly to our democratic congress, you might even get a free flat screen TV and a coupon for free haircuts (shouldn’t all Americans be entitled to a flat screen TV and a nice looking hair?) !!! If for any reason you are not happy with the new policies, you may want to re-think your vote on November 4th.
I added this quote in the Phrases I like section… but wanted to call it out here. Received this from a friend* and wanted to share…
*Ok, it’s my only friend. Just shutup.Robert Heinlein strikes again. Yes, this is the same Robert Heinlein whose science fiction novels I’ve been devouring since junior high school. This quote is from ‘To Sail Beyond the Sunset’, published in 1987. NRO found and published the quote. BTW, if this prompts you to read Heinlein, don’t start with ‘Sail’. Start with ‘Starship Troopers’ or ‘Moon is a Harsh Mistress.’ To fully enjoy Sail you need to have read his previous novels.
“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a “warm body” democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction…. [O]nce a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader — the barbarians enter Rome.” -Robert A. Heinlein
Someone sent this to me and I just had to share it with you…
