For those who think Socialism is the answer, The following is a Term paper written by a young Vietnamese woman now married to one of the Pilot's I served in Viet Nam with. Lily was born after American involvement ended in Viet Nam and the Communist takeover. She is enrolled in a Business Law Course and the Term paper was for that class.
Do You Really Want to Rear Your Child in a Socialist Society?
By Lily Cuc White
July 11, 2008
I was born and reared in a Socialist Society. Here is my personal testimony as to how good, or bad, I turned out. I turned out great! I would never cheat, or steal, or mislead anyone. I enjoy hard work, and my goals for my life are very lofty. I know that I will succeed in reaching my goals, and that my life will truly amount to something.
Considering that I was born in Vietnam and lived under socialist rule for the first 20 years of my life. (Furthermore, I lived in a very poor environment, reared by an uneducated single mother. We lived on the side of a tall mountain which, beginning at the age of nine, I climbed each night two and three times to pick up loose coal that had fallen from the coal trucks, then carry two buckets full down to the town below to be sold on the black market. This is how my mother, my grandmother, and my aunt survived. Just after I was born in the mid 1980’s and during the 1990, Vietnam was bankrupt. There was little or no food available to buy with the small amounts of money my mother, grandmother, and aunt made carrying coal). I seem to have turned out quite well.
Looking at my life one may think that rearing a child in a socialist society must have some very good advantages, after all, how did I turn out so healthy, happy, and moving towards a successful future? The answer is that things are not always what they appear to be.
It is true that I am healthy, happy, and moving towards a successful future, but this is despite of my socialist society upbringing and not because of it.
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
Do You Really Want to Rear Your Child in a Socialist Society?
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac collectively hold $5 Trillion in mortgages. So what is one of the possible outcomes of their problems in the next few weeks? A government bailout! Never mind that it would raise our total government debt by 50%. Never mind that both firms are leveraged to the level of criminal misconduct.
This is what we call Corporate Socialism–the privatization of profit and the socialization of risk and misconduct. Both our current President and Vice President are experts at this since their fortunes are owed completely to corporate socialism. In Bush’s case, he was hired by Richard Rainwater to run the Texas Rangers with only one key job attribute: the ability to get the state to pay for the new baseball stadium. When Bush sold out to his buddy Tom Hicks (Clear Channel) he made $14 million on his $500,000 investment.
Dick Cheney is also a case study in the use of corporate socialism for private enrichment. While Secretary of Defense, Cheney set up Halliburton and its KBR subsidiary in the military supply outsourcing business, and then went to work as Halliburton’s CEO. For two years work he earned $30.5 million.
Cheney and Bush only have 5 1/2 months left to continue raiding the treasury to remunerate their corporate supplicants who are floundering. Who else is “too big to fail”? Will it be Chrysler, Lehmann Brothers, General Motors or any number of troubled banks like Indy Mac that failed yesterday? How will they figure out a way to further enrich their patrons like Archer, Daniels, Midland, the big Ag firm that has been the biggest beneficiary of Ethanol and other crop subsidies from administrations of both parties?
When historians make that list of the most corrupt administrations in history, surely Bush-Cheney must rank right up there with Grant and Harding in the pantheon of exploitation.
Leave it to the advocates of BDS to turn everything they don't like into Bush and Cheney's fault.
And Taylor1, You neglected one other thing while you were getting your rant in against Bush and Cheney, the worst administration in the last hundred years was the Wilson administration. Wilson came close to turning the country into a fascist state. Read the history about his antics. You might be enlightened. Or not.
And we won't even mention Jimmy Carter's administration. That one was a complete failure led by a completely inept man.
The answer is no I do not want to raise my children in a Corporate Socialist Society. But right now, I do not have a choice unless I move out of the country.
No and I wouldn't wish that anyone grow up in a Communist Socialist Democratic Party Country.
PS: Oh and Kloin & taylor1 Grow the **** *****. 51%+ OF THIS COUNTRY does not think like you Soviets and 51%+ will stop you Soviets from Spreading your terrible Socialist Desease outside of Multsocialist County Oregon and Urban America.
PPS: IF YOU SOCIALISTS LEARNED HOW TO READ ENGLISH IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS I HIGHLY ADVISE ALL OF YOU TO CHECK OUT THE REST OF THIS STORY OVER AT LEW WATERS BLOG. MAYBE SOME OF YOU WILL GROW UP.
Funny thing about Cheney & Halliburton, it was the Clinton administration who awarded no-bid contracts to them initially in the late 90's.
I fail to see what diverting attention away from someone raised under socialism has to do with the Halliburton smear, though.
Anything to obfuscate, right taylor?
I'm glad the Vice President was smart enough to take a good, successful company up a few MORE notches and earn a hefty $30M paycheck. The left, of course, HATES corporations like haliburton simply because they exist. Halliburton accomplishes tasks few companies - or countries - could accomplish. Thank GOD for Vice President Cheney and Haliburton.
The left's heroes are cop killers and penny dictators who kill their own people.
The right's heroes are people (and yes, companies) who create JOBS, save lives, and move science and industry.. and MANKIND forward.
Some how, I think everyone here missed the point. This Lady grew up in the worst of circumstances, with every day bringing new challenges due to an oppressive government and subsistance economy. She truly prevailed in the worst of circumstances. The comments here focus on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Bush, Cheney and Haliburton?
How can one compare an advanced democratic society to the adversity she faced. Those that live under a relatively free society, seem to have little appreciation for their fortune!!
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