No, that’s not "socialism," that’s a voluntary community using private property to take care of its own. Socialism is when the state claims ownership/control and uses force to redistribute.
The Amish don’t need food stamps precisely because they aren’t socialist—they rely on faith, family, land, and consent, not a federal bureaucracy. No central state planner decides who gets what.
If you walk away from the community, they don’t send men with badges after you.
Socialism is when the state claims the power to own or control the means of production and forcibly redistribute wealth. Amish life is private property and radical mutual aid. The key difference is coercion vs consent.
You’ve been lied to about Africa.
@MagatteW: “Africa is not poor because of colonialism. Africa is poor because we have made it impossible for our people to create wealth.”
When Washington keeps telling you they’re giving you “free” stuff, they’re lying.
They borrow it, print it, and devalue your dollar.
That��s why groceries cost more.
That’s why inflation keeps rising.
And that threat comes from inside Congress.
🇺🇸🎇 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEORGE MASON!
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Born Dec 11, 1725 -
It would be pretty hard to exaggerate the influence and impact of George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights.
BREAKING - An Arab businessman in Dearborn Michigan, Sam Hussein is going viral after spending $10,000 for a 40 foot Christmas tree after city officials failed to get one in time for the holiday.
If we’re going to focus on poor behavior, we must also acknowledge good behavior.
Imagine thinking it is the government's job to make people buy the products that businesses have produced, not businesses' job to produce what people will want to buy. #Keynesianism#Corporatism
The "inflation is over" people are lying to you.
Inflation is an increase in the supply of money (AKA printing) and credit. Price goes up as a result - later.
How bad this will get in the coming years, we can't tell. But massive increases in the money supply - that's the worst thing these people can do.
Reminder: The word "EMERGENCY" does not exist in the constitution.
It's what liars and traitors like @JoeBiden and @realDonaldTrump use to trick their ignorant and anti-American supporters into expanding their power beyond what's authorized.
The Founders were well-versed in history - and knew the tyrant's main trick - people with power will always claim that it's "for your security"
Today's version is this:
"THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF DOESN'T NEED CONGRESS TO DEFEND NATIONAL SECURITY"
These people want you to believe that as long as they can make you scared of some foreign danger - the president has unlimited power.
that is a lie.
The founders fought a long, bloody war to secede from that kind of system.
"But the Chief Justice says ‘there must be an ultimate Arbiter somewhere.’ true, there must: but does that prove it is either party? the ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union, assembled by their deputies in Convention, at the call of Congress, or of two thirds of the states. let them decide to which they meant to give an authority claimed by two of their organs. and it has been the peculiar wisdom & felicity of our constitution, to have provided this peaceable appeal where that of other nations is at once to force."
-Thomas Jefferson
No, a product isn't 'better' because it's produced in a particular country. But you can value its production location as part of its 'quality' to you--you decide what you consider of value. Policymakers have no business deciding who can produce for you and strip you of the choice
This article delves into the real cost of war as explained by Joseph Salerno in his book Money: Sound and Unsound. Contrary to Keynesianism, war destroys wealth and destroys an economy from within. | Ulrich Fromy
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Mises (1949, p. 331): "it would be nonsensical to assert that the value attached to a product is equal to the 'sum' of the values attached to the various complementary factors of production. One cannot add up values or valuations." I.e., a good is not economically equal to its inputs.