Every new generation has to relearn the lessons of what socialism does to a country. My criticism is of those people who believe that the former NDP government in Edmonton, America under Obama and our current government in Ottawa are saving the world while literally destroying our economy with typical socialist programs.
Trudeau’s policies of carbon tax “wealth redistribution” is an extension of the United Nations IPCC globalist control and is simply theft under the “guise of environmental protection”, neither necessary nor beneficial.
As a soldier and businessman I witnessed what socialist governments did in former East Germany and Romania. Cuba may never recover and Venezuela, once the fourth largest economy in the world, is a socialist disaster created by Chavez and perpetuated by Maduro. While I sympathize with the Venezuelan people, twenty years ago they bought Chavez’s style of “sunny ways” and now they’re paying for their stupidity.
Socialism is a flawed philosophy that destroys the human spirit and its desire to achieve, while curtailing self reliance, freedom and personal responsibility. It promises equality, security and prosperity accomplishing only “equality” of misery, tyranny and poverty as expressed in Mark Perry’s paper Why Socialism Always Fails.
Socialism is government control that insidiously takes from the producers and gives to non-producers, eventually making everyone equally poor and forcing people to ultimately depend upon government.
Trudeau’s “sunny ways” is socialism masquerading as liberalism. Trudeau’s nationalization of the Trans Mountain pipeline, Bills C-48 and C-69 give the Trudeau government exclusive control over Canada’s resources. A new food guide that will hurt beef and dairy industries, are examples of policies created by a government that wants control and cares nothing about Canada’s economy.
In Bob Plamondon’s book The Truth about Trudeau, Trudeau senior said: “the party of the people - socialism, communism - will eventually come out the winner”. Only blind fools cannot see that Justin is Pierre reincarnated. “Canada was once a country of makers, now becoming takers!”
Socialism is perfectly defined by a Gerald Smith quote: “you cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. Governments cannot give anybody anything that it has not first taken from somebody else (Carbon tax an example, my emphasis). When half of the people realize that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and those people then realize that it does no good to work because someone else is going to get what they work for is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it”.
I encourage every socialist to read Ayn Rand’s book Atlas Shrugged, in which Rand demonstrates what happens when an economy becomes controlled by faceless bureaucrats and government agencies that under the guise of “public good and equality of opportunity” destroy free enterprise driving creators of wealth into closure or bankruptcy. (Sound familiar to Albertans)?
Socialists tell me they “are passionate about their beliefs, among them the power of government to affect their lives in positive ways”. Socialists miss the part about how Canada’s federal government affects their lives in negative ways, with disastrous economic policies, unnecessary costly taxes and bureaucratic regulations that control the activities and even the thinking of the citizenry. I see nothing positive about them.
My priority is a strong economic future for Alberta for my great grand children’s sake, which in turn will provide the social programs our people need. This should also be the objective of everyone instead of criticizing someone who understands what’s really happening to the country I was once so proud to serve.
If anyone wishes to refute anything I’ve written here, I challenge you to call me. You know where I am.
- L. (Tex) Leugner