Posted by Tina
Anyone want to hazard a guess about this quote? From whence did it come?
We ask that the government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living. The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within its confines and be for the good of all. Therefore, we demand: … an end to the power of the financial interests. We demand profit sharing in big business. We demand a broad extension of care for the aged. We demand … the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of national, state, and municipal governments. In order to make possible to every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our entire system of public education … We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents … The government must undertake the improvement of public health – by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting child labor … by the greatest possible support for all clubs concerned with the physical education of youth. We combat the … materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of the common good before the individual good.
Answer below the fold.
The quote is from the political program of the Nazi Party, adopted in Munich, on February 24, 1920, quoted in Die Nationalsozialistische Dokumente 1933-1945, edited by Walther Hofer, Frankfurt am Mein: Fischer Bucherei, 1957, pp. 29-31
Man…those socialists have always been a bunch of control freaks…”we demand…we demand!”
Eventually they want it all…mutual poverty and slavery is the final nail in the socialist coffin.
Can you say “Forward”?
You are getting more ridiculous and hateful by the day.
I’m sorry Tina, but it’s still all good stuff.
The fact that the Nazis (as did Mr. Jefferson) had a terribly restricted view of who should recieve these benefits was a shame … as were the manifestations of other aspects of Nazi philosophy, but the inference you are trying to draw here is bogus.
Tina, thank you for illustrating the value to be found in history, as chilling as it may be, it was a great find!
As I read this piece I was trying to image who might be saying it. I was leaning towards someone on the far left and I thought it might be from a speech Obama gave in his younger years.
“We ask that the government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living. The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within its confines and be for the good of all. Therefore, we demand: … an end to the power of the financial interests. We demand profit sharing in big business.”
This will NOT be well received by those who have invested in the leftist movement because history is mocking them. It makes their most heartfelt beliefs look dangerous and tawdry. Given their child like views, expect child like anger as a reply. They will take this article as a personal insult and you, the messenger, will be the target of their anger… oh, wait here comes Chris…I wonder what pearls he will share with us?
“It makes their most heartfelt beliefs look dangerous and tawdry.”
It does not. That paragraph is nothing more nor less than an expansion and explication of the much more generally phrased:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Now, you may want to take this country back to the days when “promote the general Welfare” applied only to white males of the property owning class (which would make conservatives, not liberals, akin to the Nazis) … but you know what? We will not let you.
Libby: “…the inference you are trying to draw here is bogus.”
Do tell!
Libby: “That paragraph is nothing more nor less than an expansion and explication of the much more generally phrased…”
Our readers can read and comprehend! The two are not alike, especially if one considers the thinking and writing of the founders regarding freedom from government intrusion. The Constitution was written to protect the people from oppressive government.
“Now, you may want to take this country back to the days when “promote the general Welfare” applied only to white males of the property owning class…”
Get real lady! Remember our readers are smart. No amount of misdirection is going to change the fact that your choice for president, Barack Obama, and people like you who support him, are in favor of socialism: more government control, high taxes, less freedom, and ultimately oppression…a lot like the socialist Nazi’s!
Jack: “…because history is mocking them. It makes their most heartfelt beliefs look dangerous and tawdry. Given their child like views, expect child like anger as a reply.”
Brilliant assessment, Jack.
“They will take this article as a personal insult and you, the messenger, will be the target of their anger… oh, wait here comes Chris…I wonder what pearls he will share with us?”
Prescient too!
I can’t imagine how offensive this comparison must be to people living in Israel–which, according to Tina’s own logic, is a socialist country.
Is Israel “Nazi-like,” Tina? What about present-day Germany? Norway? Denmark? Sweden? England? Italy? Spain? France? I could go on, but I think I’ve made my point. Your comparison is stupid and shows you to be ignorant and shallow.
Have you noticed the fiscal shape of most of these countries, the attitudes of the people, or do you just value them for their programs?
Israel is a bit of an exception because the heritage and traditions of the people have kept their socialist proclivities in perspective.
To the degree that these countries are socialist they are Nazi-like. The Nazi’s were socialists were they not? If this is an insult it is only because it has truth in it.
But the point was not to call any country a Nazi country with all of the attendant horror associated with the Nazi’s. The point was that socialism is socialism…and ultimately it leads to totalitarianism and lost freedom.
America was the most free, most productive, and wealthiest country in the world because of freedom.
People risk their lives for freedom…they are tortured and put in prison in pursuit of freedom. If only you valued it as much. People like you will destroy it by a million tiny cuts and you don’t even realize it. I don’t want freedom destroyed and I will demonstrate the folly of the socialist path in any way that I can.
http://www.dojgov.net/Liberty_Watch.htm
Chris you don’t know your heritage. You don’t appreciate the values that make America the land of freedom and opportunity for millions of people living under oppressive forms of government. And because this valuable commodity, freedom, has little value for you, you will vote to put yourself and others in chains. It breaks my heart.
“To the degree that these countries are socialist they are Nazi-like.”
OK, then. Thanks for clearing that up. You’re insane.
“Israel is a bit of an exception…”
Of course. It always is.
“America was the most free…country in the world because of freedom.”
Your vapid platitudes never cease to amuse me.
I’d just like to point out that by the logic of this article, Winston Churchhill was “Nazi-like,” just because he supported universal health care. That’s how stupid and meaningless this argument is. The only point is to associate social welfare with Bad People, so as to discredit the central ideas of the late 20th century. There’s no substance here at all.