There are many people who believe that Socialism and Democracy can exist with one another. They can, but that’s because Socialism is a threat to Capitalism, at least at first, not Democracy.          

Socialism to Democracy is not the issue in what is going on with our current crisis in the USA. However Socialism, in a democratic society, is now the method used by liberal left leaning elected societies intent on chipping away at individual freedoms and human rights and our free market capitalistic system, resulting in a collective form of Government. It is also the method by which supplying one’s “daily bread” will lead to the control of the people. What the Government gives they can also take away.

Those who think that the WWII era was the time socialism became prevalent in European democracies are dead wrong. In fact it was that time when Communism expanded its hold on Europe, when the powers at the Alta conference decided that most of the free people prior to WWII should fall slaves to the USSR. This didn’t end until the fall of the “Berlin Wall” 40 years later and their Communistic form of government crumbled under its own weight.  Most of the rest of Europe were already Socialistic Democratic States. 

One has to realize that European countries were ruled by Monarchies, Clan leaders, and Warlords, which were collective forms of Government, where nobody owned anything of their own. This is a pure form Socialism, or in today’s world Communism. Therefore Socialism was what they had to start from. Unfortunately the people had no idea what a “Capitalist Democracy” was and were scared because they had been always at the mercy of the Monarchy. Socialistic Democracies Started when the European people decided they had enough with being ruled by appointed Royalty and beheaded or diminished their powers to nothing more than figureheads. Even then Socialism started gaining control in areas of the business ownership, the workforce and religion. Hence the movement to America occurred. The people formed Parliaments and free elections were held. That was before WWII. (Of course this is an accelerated summation, a lot of other stuff happen before they got their freedom.)     

Socialism started in this country in the late 18^th century in the form of Unionism as the means to end the exploitation of woman, children, workers coming from the farms and the large influx immigrants. It was a good concept then. Now however, with their sometimes outrages wage demands and extreme lifetime worker benefits, layoff restrictions, no firing clauses, and restrictions on companies to utilize more modern and efficient methods of manufacturing and processing, has led to anti-competitiveness. Union demands have been the major factor in the reduction of jobs or job relocation in unionized companies. If you look at the areas or States in deep trouble you will find a large concentration of unions.

The Labor Unions now have a strangle hold on the SDP and forcing the insertion of Socialistic demands, such as “card check”, or “Employee Free Choice Act, and demanding that any project using Federal money must us Union workers in their policies.

Now from MoneyNews.com one of the largest labor unions, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), wants to centralize all retirement plans for under one new “retirement system” including 401(k) plans for the United States. In effect, every one will have a Government Retirement whether they like it or not. Also Union labor must be used on federally funded projects was just introduced in the new “Stimulus Bill.”  

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich explains Card Check:

"Under Card Check, union organizers and their enforcers will be able to go into any small business, hospital or construction site and coerce workers into signing cards. If they get 50 percent plus one, the deal's done, and the workers are forced into a union. And if management and the new union fail to reach a negotiated contract, the federal government will just impose one.

Other Socialistic mandates:

On top of that a Government mandated the Social Security System (SSS) that takes a percentage of the workers earned wages, which are taken off the top, or gross, of the workers and was suppose to be set aside in a fund for when workers became sixty five years old and retired.  People of that generation had no idea what was happening or understood that the workers not only had their money taken away for 30 or 40 years, were paid “NO interest” and then the Socialists Democrat Government made us pay income taxes on it when we were qualified to collect. However the Social Security fund money was to inviting and free, not in a locked account, for the Federal Government, and almost right away it started being used it for other things.

The only thing that stopped the spending and the abuse of the Government Treasury in the late 1930s up to the mid 40s was WWII. SSS was an entitlement and once started it could not be discontinued.

Today we have many entitlements and many restrictions that have been forced on or into our lives for the “good of the country”. In all cases, Capitalism and a free market driven society can handle these problems, only big government solutions will, without a doubt, cause recessions and then inflation especially one that favors Socialism. Having said that, many more are be proposed by our Socialist Democrat President and labor controlled Socialist Democrat Party, soon to known as the ”Socialist Democrat Labor Party”. There are three very dangerous ones:

Cap and Trade, or better known at “Cap and Tax”, which taxes everything we manufacture, touch and consume, and is being use to combat “Global Warming”. There is no scientific proof that it is even happening. There is however scientific proof that it is not.

Second, is a mandated “Healthcare system” which we know does not and will not work for this country. How do we know? Well in the European Union there are 27 countries all of which have a different government run Healthcare systems. All these countries are imploding because the amount of people using the systems, and the very high unemployment, are consuming more money than the Governments coffers can support. People in those countries are now paying 50 to 60 percent of their pay to their governments for all the entitlements. This is another entitlement which, if started, can not be discontinued.

From The GOPUSA Eagle:

Now, our dive toward socialism appears to be gaining steam and some elected officials around the country are considering another anti-capitalist move: price controls. That's right... in the good, old U.S.A. you could be the owner of a rental property where the government tells you how much you can charge. Own a grocery store? Better not raise the price of milk unless the government says it's OK.

Third, our new Socialist Democrat President is nationalizing our financial and insurance industries as well as handing the automakers tons of bailout money. These industries have made some bad business decisions and should be allowed to go bankrupt.              

Socialism is the belief that any of the various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods and services is owned collectively (includes labor unions) or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy. It is the stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved.

Our Socialist Democrat President is planning on increasing the Government payroll by 600,000 workers. We currently have 33% of our workforce getting a paycheck from Federal, State and Local Governments. When that reaches 51% we will have become a European Socialist style State and we can officially call our country the “United Socialist States of America.

The Government is handing out more money than what is taking in, and our Government is becoming a “Giant Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme”, which is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors (in this case substitute Government employees)  from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors rather than from any actual profit earned.  

”Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. Under capitalism the state is separated from economics (production and trade, just like the state is separated from religion. Capitalism is the system of political freedom”.

Communism is any system of government in which all property and wealth is owned by the state. This is where we could end up.