3 ways socialism hurts people

American Indians hallow the spirit of an animal before eating it. Socialists condemn wealth producers before consuming fruits of their labor. Here are three ways socialism hurts people:

1. It perverts charity

Socialism perverts the focus of charity from giving to receiving, from generosity to entitlement. It inverts the meaning of JFK's great quote to say: Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your country can do for you.

GIVING: Charity requires personal sacrifice. After donating blood, the receiver always has more, and the giver has less. Charity is a giver's triumph because it helps to transcend personal greed, and to bring proper perspective to money as only a means to a greater end. Charity also humanizes the less fortunate and blesses them during heartfelt rituals of generosity.

By contrast, socialism measures its success by how much it takes from others. It requires sacrifice from others, while the government "giver" grows richer. For example, Castro in Cuba lived more lavishly than even the most decadent Roman emperor, and Chavez of Venezuela died a billionaire. The triumph of socialism is greater subjugation of humanity, until the many serve the will of the elites in power. Even in so-called European democratic socialist countries, citizens are increasingly powerless to stop reckless EU spending and to stem the tide of dangerous immigration policies of the apathetic ruling elite. This primacy of the State is the ultimate secular objective, and people are only interchangeable globs of grease for the gears of hegemony.

RECEIVING: The beauty of charity is that it dignifies the act of receiving. The saint is equally desperate to give as the leper is to receive. Both are enriched; both shed tears of gratitude. Who has not seen acts of charity, of unconditional love, that have not induced empathy? I have been touched at moments as a temporary coach at a food bank before leaving for North Dakota to be a frac hand.

Conversely, socialism in Venezuela, a country with immense natural resources, brings tears to the eyes of starving people for a much different reason. They are forced to scavenge for scraps of food from dumpsters to keep their families alive. Estimates of national average weight loss of the people are breathtaking, despite the personal well-being of their oil-rich socialist leader, Nicolas Maduro. Recent reports speak of the soul-numbing necessity of some citizens to prostitute their bodies to acquire food. Clearly, socialist leadership hurts people's souls as well.

In America, Little Sisters of the Poor were compelled, against their conscience, to comply with abortion mandates in Obamacare coverage for employees or suffer massive fines. Thankfully, the Supreme Court protected their sacred religious liberty and averted the gruesome spectacle of state-sponsored soul-rape of elderly nuns.

2. It promotes greed

When you think of greed, what comes to mind, capitalism or socialism? Does it take more greed to earn something or to take it?

Think of capitalism as a farmer's market: sowing, reaping and selling for a profit. Every free-market purchase requires a mutually beneficial transaction. Buyer and seller must agree on a price. In this way, an asking price that is too high, too greedy, will be rejected by the buyer. Any offer to buy that is too low will be rejected by the seller. In other words, the seller's greed and the buyer's greed are strictly held in check by capitalism. Capitalism curbs greed. It prevents greed from succeeding in the market place where open competition exists.

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Conversely, think of socialism as the European cuckoo bird who, because it cannot build a nest itself, lays its single egg into that of the reed warbler, then leaves forever, forgoing all maternal duties. The host "mother" is unwittingly left to feed this humongous, gluttonous imposter whose egg hatches before the others. By mimicking the sound of a brood of warbler chicks, the cuckoo fledgling stimulates her into feeding its voracious appetite. This gives the cuckoo bird parasite enough strength to kill its "siblings" by evacuating all other eggs from the nest. In this way, it secures monopolistic control and redistributes recourses to itself. Socialism is the cuckoo bird of society who, because it cannot produce products itself, usurps the nest of capitalism and wages of hardworking taxpayers by nationalizing whole industries or by controlling them through regulatory fiat and confiscatory taxation. All the while, socialist politicians mimic charitable concerns for the poor to stimulate taxpayers to subsidize their own downfall unknowingly.

Socialism is militant greed that takes by deception or by force what its zealots could not earn by any other means. Socialism requires two types of greed, wanting more for yourself than you have earned, and wanting less for others who have earned it.

3. It causes power inequality

Which is a greater danger to our freedom, income inequality or power inequality?

Income inequality can be annoying if someone has more money in the bank than you do, owns the home you live in, or even the company you work for. True, sometimes a rich person is so abusive that it makes us move out of their house, or even change jobs. In either case, we retain our free will by virtue of mobility and freedom to choose. Nobel Prize winner Milton Freidman, in his book called "Free to Choose," says, "Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today's disadvantaged to become tomorrow's privileged. …"

Power inequality is far more dangerous. Every violent crime against humanity directly involves power inequality: slavery, rape, incest, pedophilia, female genital mutilation, kidnapping, terrorism, caste systems, socialism, communism, dictatorship, theocracy. The list has a thousand more examples with one common denominator: power inequality.

No wonder socialists avoid the topic, preferring to shift the focus to income inequality. For the record, income inequality also has many positives: Millions of workers are employed by large wealthy corporations; we buy products from affluent innovators; life-saving drugs require millions spent in research and development costs; national security is driven by technology patented by prosperous individuals, etc. The benefits could go on for 20 more pages. I remember telling a socialist coworker who asked me, almost rhetorically, "Isn't income inequality terrible?" I replied emphatically, "Every morning I kneel down and pray to God for more income inequality. It helps so many people."

Which are you? Are you the cuckoo bird, a socialist schemer, whose income grows only if more victims are created? Or are you an honest capitalist who is content to harvest in the fall only what you sow in the spring, using the content of your character to fertilize the rich soil of mutually beneficial transactions?