Sunday, June 18, 2006

Anyone Know Any Good Slovak Jokes?

Here are excerpts from a story I just wrote:

Election officials say Slovakia's leftist opposition party won Saturday's legislative elections, but does not have a full majority... Slovakia enjoyed steady economic growth under Prime Minister Dzurinda, but opposition party leader Robert Fico says the government's policies have mostly favored foreign investors and the wealthy. He has promised to reverse Mr. Dzurinda's welfare and tax reforms that won the praise of NATO and the European Union because he says they are too great a burden on ordinary Slovakians.

So, the Slovaks gave freedom a try, and it was just too hard. Socialism is never just about the economy. Even in Western socialist countries like England and Canada, the government tells people what medical care they can receive, what television they can watch, and invariably, it gets around to depriving people of their basic human right to self-defense. It is a method of government that spreads misery equally -- if you aren't part of the ruling caste. But, as we see in Slovakia (formerly a part of communist Czechoslovakia), socialism also destroys the human spirit. It makes people incapable of striving for their own betterment.

This is what liberals want for all of us. Life is too hard, let the government do it.

1 comment:

DAKOTARANGER said...

On one hand they want government to do everything. (The LA Times claims that we can't blame the criminals that misused the Katrina money.) But if the government is capturing overseas phone calls is overstepping the bounds.

If you want the government to treat you like a child, you have no right to complain when they do. (eventhough I've seen nothing reputible that the government has done anything wrong with the phone captures.)