A Tea Party 10-point guide to fighting socialism in your own life

http://www.openleft.com/diary/18201/a-tea-party-10point-guide-to-fighting-socialism-in-your-own-life
by: Paul Rosenberg

In her Morning No diary on Thursday, Natasha linked to Digby writing about Gregory Lee Giusti, arrested on Wednesday for repeatedly threatening Nancy Pelosi. Giusti, it turns out, has lived in subsidized housing for at least around a decade. After enduring close to a year now of a Medicare-based movement against public health care, don't ask me why this particular individual pushed my past my own personal tipping point, but somehow he did. I've had enough.

Look, it's time for these people to exercise a little personal responsibility. If they don't like socialism, fine. They should just stop relying on it. Don't wait for anybody else. Take some personal responsibility, dammit! Here's how. This 10-point list is not a comprehensive guide-personal responsibility means finding things out for yourself! It's just a guide on getting started, so you start to get the hang of recognizing and rejecting socialism wherever it is But be warned, if you limit yourself to just these ten steps, the socialist will win. So start here, but don't stop! Don't stop until you've destroyed every vestige of socialism in your life. Teabaggers everywhere, take heed! This is how to throw off the shackles of socialism, once and for all! Spread the message far and wide! Defeat socialism in your own life. Don't wait for anyone else to do it for you!

(1) If you live in subsidized housing, like Gregory Lee Giusti , move. Into the street, if necessary. But not to a shelter. All shelters receive government support one way or another-either getting money directly from the government, using government-subsidized resources, or being subsidized via the tax code.

(2) If you're on food stamps, tear them up, throw them away, and don't get any more. Just starve. Food banks are a no-no, just like shelters. All non-profits are government subsidized through the tax code.

(3) If you're on Medicaid, or your children are on SCHIP, just say no! Pay out of pocket or get sick and die. Like the man said, "Give me liberty AND give me death!"

(4) If you are on Medicare, drop out. Refuse to use your Medicare card, and pay for all your medical expenses yourself. You can try to get medical insurance, of course. Good luck with that. Aside from supplemental Medicare coverage, you'll probably have to go to Switzerland, or something.

(5) Pull your kids out of school. Obviously, public schools are socialist. But so are charter schools that receive public money. And even purely private schools employ teachers who went to public school. Yes, I know it's shocking, but it's true! So, no school! It's socialist, through and through.

(6) Stay off the streets. Almost all streets, roads and highways in America are socialist. Private roads are incredibly rare, so unless you live on one, stay off the streets entirely. Besides, you can't buy gas without paying state and federal taxes.

(7) Stay off the sidewalks. They're just as socialist as the streets, if not moreso.

(8) Stop using municipal water. Municipal water is socialist. Use only commercial bottled water for cooking, bathing, clothes-washing, etc.

(9) Tell the fire department to screw off. Notify your local fire department that if your house catches on fire, you do not want them to come. They're socialists, after all. You'd rather have your children die a horrible death.

(10) Tell the police to screw off, too! Notify your local police department that you don't need their help if anyone steals your stuff, or tries to kill you or anything like that. In fact, you'll kill them if they try. You've warned them politely... this time!

So that's it, folks! Spread the message far & wide. No one can free you of socialism but you yourself!

don't pay attention to the time of day
build houses the way you feel like building them DAMMIT!
don't support the NRA
hate the military

You know the health department regulates the restaurants industry. Matter of fact don't eat any meat. FDA approved.

Come to think of it don't take any medicine...it is approved by the FDA also.

meat would not be affordable to most people on the scale it is were it not for water, land, and grain subsidies.

I know, I know: most teabagger types would rather die of starvation than eat meat tainted with taxes, but then again they'd also rather not eat non-meat diets because that would turn them into wimpy vegetarian commies.

Man, I swear if they were smart enough to understand logic their heads would explode.

don't use any graded fasteners or certified materials. Don't use immigrant labor, union labor, or licensed anybody.

bathrooms!

The only time most of them would ever enter one is to protest some book that contains dirty words or, even worse, science.

Here's a good one about "non-socialist policing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ibgn4L6xAw&feature=player_embedded

The government makes sure it isn't stolen from you.
And you don't have to pay property taxes!! Don't even rent.

And stay off the sidewalks, those are socialist too.

Looks like all you can do is go swim in the ocean.
And when the coast Guard comes to save you, wave them off.

And the ocean will make you into tea. P. e. r. f. e. c. t.

*They shouldn't use our monetary system. They can barter with all the other "Don't tread on me," types.

*They can't work for any business. The "socialist" legal system provides protection and limits liability for those companies.

*They can't go to any hospital with doctors educated at public colleges. I'm sure they don't want socialist money contributing to the competence of their medical professionals.

(add this to (8).

Can I flush, if I use bottled water to do it?

(Please, can I have a socialist sewer line? Please?)

It had to meet government standards to be sold (socialist). It had to be approved by the city, county or state where it was going to be installed (socialist). It was created by a company which charged you taxes for it (socialistic). The workers who built it drove on government roads and used government services in their lives, so the products they make are tainted by the government (socialist). Was your septic tank airlifted by a private helicopter to your property, or was it delivered by truck using government roads? If your answer was 'roads' then can you say, 'socialist'? Oh wait, the helicopter's design had to be approved by the government (socialist) and it had to fly in accordance to aircraft flight rules (socialist) so you had better start peeing in your back yard because your beloved septic tank is SOCIALISTIC! Be safe, get an outhouse and go back to the conservative 'days of glory'.

The dream country for a conservative extremist is Somalia. There is virtually no functioning government, everyone carries automatic assault rifles and the biggest part of their gross domestic product comes from piracy. It's a conservative's dream country. No laws, no regulations, complete anarchy. And if they were allowed to make the US a 'conservative' country it would soon look exactly like Somalia.

Sorry, but the real free market solution here would be a composting toilet then use the compost to grow your own food, thus avoiding supporting the farmer who probably gets guvmint subsidies and you could sell any excess compost as well as excess produce.

Why try to change this country when a teahadist paradise is just a half a world a way. Somalia needs you anti socialists!

I hear the climate (which is not changing) is PERFECT!

I wish they all WOULD move to Somalia. Permanently!

I wish I could find the link again (I posted it on DU before), but there was an article from one of the major right-wing think tanks like Cato or Heritage actually arguing that Somalia's problems were caused by too much government, not too little. And how do they figure that, I hear you ask? Well, you see, although Somalia doesn't have a functional government right now, there is always the threat that the government might come back. Goverment is so powerful and terrible that even the very IDEA of a government is enough to cause bad stuff to happen. And this proves, boys and girls, that libertarianism cannot fail, it can only be failed. Isn't it funny how much some libertarians resemble the communists they claim to despise?

even farmers who raise animals for meat and dairy must meet government regulations for sanitation, licensing, etc., and those are "socialist," supported by tax dollars.

and don't hunt, because that requires a socialist license--you can try hunting without a license (with a gun that must be gotten outside the system of background check, with no government-issued ID, with contraband bullets, because most places require at least a drivers license to buy bullets), but there may be consequences that even if considered "illegitimate" by you, will still sting.

those farmers get government subsidies, which makes them Socialist.

through a private court system.

tell the cop who pulls you over, you don't recognize his or her authority, because they are socialist lackies.

DO IT TODAY!

:rofl: :rofl:

It's collectively owned by all of us. And monitored by the govment.

And refuse to let your kids board that church bus for a day-trip to a STATE PARK.
I'm warning you - if you set foot in Yellowstone you will die of shame!

buy it at Barnes and Noble or Amazon, dammit!

use the roads.

AND... if you buy it through Amazon... you have to use (GASP!) the Postal System.

Oy, the choices, the choices.... those darn socialists are everywhere!

them thar internets... totally socialist, developed by the US Military - another socialist organisation. So they need to stay off the Internet.

Don't go to church. They're subsidized by tax money since their great wealth isn't taxed.

Money is made by the government and backed by the government. Just barter for all of your goods and services.

socialist probrams and one of the replies included an extensive list of social services. Does anyone have a link to that list?

Once they accept the fact that Socialism is sound in principle--which is not too difficult, for as you have pointed out above, we all rely on it every day--then the rest is just haggling over amounts.

Grow your own food, make your own medicine, and don't go to a hospital or see a doctor ever again. The government monitors the food supply and makes sure medicines are safe, and also funds new drug development. Doctors were educated at public schools, and hospitals get federal funds.

There is a tea party planned for Thursday in my western Mass town. Last years saw the the craziest of the crazies come out from their basement and I am expecting worse this year in terms of their signs and slogans. Also, Sarah Palin will be in our state that same day (Boston) so I expect that will really get the teabaggers here in an even bigger foaming frenzy.

I am organizing a counter-programming rally with signs that have satirical and absurdist statements on them. If anyone else is interested in this idea for their town, I'll share most of the sign ideas me and other organizers have come up with so far:

1. PAVED ROADS AND ACCESS TO DRINKING WATER AREN'T EVEN IN THE CONSTITUTION!

2. STOP STEELING MY $$$ TO TEECH KIDZ TO REED. EDUCATON CAN BE TAUT AT HOME!

3. YOU'LL PUT MY HOUSEFIRE OUT OVER MY DEAD BODY!

4. CHILDREN WITH CANCER SHOULD HAVE TAKEN BETTER CARE OF THEMSELVES. HEALTH IS ABOUT PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY"

5. I'M AN HOUR LATE BECAUSE I RESIST BIG BROTHER'S DAY-LIGHT SAVINGS TYRANNY

6. POLICE WANT TO OPPRESS DRUNK DRIVERS' FREEDOM TO DRIVE DRUNK

7. FREEDOM = CHOOSING NOT TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD CHEMOTHERAPY

8. SICK PEOPLE: LIVE FREE AND DIE

9. THE HOLOCAUST WAS CAUSED BY HITLER'S SOCIALIST HEALTH CARE TAKEOVER

10. I DIDN'T TAKE THE RIGHT PILLS TODAY BECAUSE THE F.D.A. DESTROYS FREE MARKET ECONOMICS

11. I GOT YOUR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE PLAN: DON'T GET SICK

12. FIRST STEP PUBLIC LIBRARIES, NEXT STEP OBAMA-CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR PATRIOTS

-tmk

Those are great!

yew meen EDUKAYSHUN?

There are probably more than a few teabaggers who would believe those things. (Didn't Glenn Beck imply once that socialist health care led to the Holocaust?)

The rest are all great!

Most bottled water comes from municipal (government) sources. Water that is treated by the government, stored in government built ponds or lakes and is transported by the government. Just like the line in Soylent Green where Heston says "It's people, Soylent Green is people", almost all water is Socialist!

I personally pump mine out of the ground, remove the iron, soften it, and neutralize the acid content with devices I own. That is likely the case for a higher proportion of people this list targets than the general population (since private wells are a predominantly rural phenomenon - and rural areas tend to be more heavily populated with tea bag types).

And how did it get delivered to your property? Who drilled your well? The actual well drillers and installers are subject to state regulations and have to be licensed.

There is surprisingly little regulation of private wells - what there is, takes place on a fee for service basis.

in which most people tea party folks benefit from sharing the wealth - this particular one is too much of a stretch. It really isn't a convincing argument that my own personal water supply is subsidized because (now) 50 years ago - 30 years before I purchased my home, the builder the previous owner hired/purchased the home from hired another third party to drill the well, who had to use government roads to get to the house and transport the equipment. Sort of like trying to convince me that a single drop of African American blood makes one African American.

We'd be better off hammering them with the most obvious (which most of them are not even consciously aware of) like Medicare, Social Security, VA benefits, libraries, schools, etc.

every thing we do in this country involves government regulations, or some type of government involvement, law, etc., and most of these things are needed for us to be somewhat assured that we are safe.

The OP discussed socialism, not government regulation, involvement, laws. The things you mentioned are not inherently socialist.

Socialist! Socialist! Socialist! Socialist! Socialist! Socialist! Socialist! Socialist! Socialist!

Do not use GPS. The Global Positioning System is a network of satellites placed into orbit by the U.S. Department of Defense. Originally intended for military applications, in the 1980s, the government made the system available for civilian use.

Use only privately produces maps that have not used GPS. The U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, has had responsibility for mapping the country since 1879 and has continued to be the primary mapping agency of the United States ever since.

I posted the following 'pledge' in a lot of different forums and thought it is appropriate to repost in this great thread. We need to compile a comprehensive list of everything 'tainted by the government' and how hypocritical conservatives violate their 'ideals' and 'principles' by receiving the benefits of socialism every day. I know the list of pledges is too long because a tea bagger's mind would explode if it got through just one paragraph. I need to rewrite it in three word sentences using monosyllabic words for them to understand.

(By the way, I haven't coaxed even one conservative into making the pledges below, not one. So much for principle, but yeehaww for hypocrisy!)


A HEALTH CARE PLEDGE FOR CONSERVATIVES
by Larry Rolirad

As a Conservative who DOES NOT have Health Insurance:

I, ___________, as a conservative who DOES NOT have health care insurance, I do hereby pledge to refuse all health care paid for by the government. I pledge if I become sick, or a member of my family becomes sick, that I will refuse to be treated by any doctor, hospital or emergency personnel if the cost for these services will in any way be subsidized by a state or federal government. 

I, ___________, as a conservative who DOES NOT have insurance, I do hereby pledge to wait one year from the time of my first symptoms until I go to the emergency room of a government-funded county hospital because I believe the 45,000 people who die every year due to inability to access quality health care deserve to die, after all, they are really deadbeats who could afford health insurance if they wanted it.

I, ___________, as a conservative who DOES NOT have insurance, I do hereby pledge to never accept any medical technologies, innovations, treatments or medications that were paid for, subsidized or developed using government funds because I believe them to be 'socialistic' and therefor evil. I know capitalistic 'for profit' companies will always act in the best interests of human beings, and never attempt to profit off of a person who is sick or dying. 

I, ___________, as a conservative who DOES NOT have insurance, I do hereby pledge to continue to support the pharmaceutical industry making profits of 77 billion a year by overcharging for drugs and thereby preventing people from obtaining drugs to stay alive. As a conservative, I believe if a person can not afford medications they deserve to die because I believe 'poverty' or being a member of the working poor should be a capital offense. As a conservative I also support the current system where pharmaceutical companies spend more on advertising drugs than they do for research and development of drugs.

I, ___________, as a conservative who DOES NOT have insurance, do hereby pledge that if I am too sick to go to the hospital I will not call a government sponsored '911' program, because I believe such emergency services to be 'socialistic' and therefore 'evil. I furthermore pledge to just sit in my house and die along with the other 45,000 people who die each year due to lack of access to health care if I cannot afford life-saving medical treatment.


As a Conservative who DOES HAVE have Health Insurance:

I, ___________, a conservative who HAS health care insurance, do hereby pledge to never disagree if my insurance company refuses to pay a valid claim, for I know they would never do anything to hurt another human being for money.

I, ___________, a conservative who HAS health care insurance, do hereby pledge to remain subservient to my insurance company and will never disagree if they refuse to pay for a valid claim by stating that it is related to a 'pre-existing condition', even if the condition has nothing to do with my current illness.

I, ___________, a conservative who HAS health care insurance, do hereby pledge to always agree with my insurance company even if they use some obscure loophole intentionally inserted into my policy to deceive me and to prevent me from getting the health care I need to remain alive. 

I, ___________, a conservative who HAS health care insurance, do hereby pledge that I will not accept medical treatment until such treatment is first approved by an insurance representative, even if I know that the representative is rewarded financially for denying valid services to me or my family. I will readily and eagerly accept the decisions of the thousands of current 'death panels' used by insurance companies so they can make even bigger profits off of those they victimize.

I, ___________, a conservative who HAS health care insurance and believes in tort reform, hereby pledges to never hold an insurance company liable or to seek justice in a court of law, even if their acts are criminal, deceptive or if their dishonest acts lead to the death of one of my family members. 

I, ___________, a conservative who HAS health care insurance, do hereby pledge to not accept medical treatment even if I need life saving emergency treatment if those treatments are not first approved by an insurance bureaucrat. I refuse to admit that insurance companies are already using 'death panels' to kill people for profit.

 
FINALLY, as a CONSERVATIVE:

I, ___________, as a conservative who believes everyone should be independent and that no one ever falls on hard times in their lives, do hereby pledge that if I break any of the pledges above and receive any medical care for me or my family that I will agree to sell my house, use my retirement, sell my automobiles, cash in my children's college funds and use all of my assets to pay every dime of what I owe, even if my family and I are left destitute and homeless. I further pledge to repay every dime I make working at a burger joint or as a greeter at Walmart to first repay my medical bills before buying food or housing for my family. I further pledge to pay any interest rate on any balances due, because I believe corporations and banks should be allowed to charge anything they want, even interest rates of 30, 40, 50% or even 400%, rates even the Mafia never charged. I believe in unbridled capitalism and that companies should be allowed to do whatever they want, for I consider capitalism to be my 'god' and CEOs its disciples. I hereby further pledge to praise CEO salaries and bonuses even though I know that for every dollar they make is a dollar that doesn't go to help the sick or dying. And because I was against all minimum wage increases in the past 40 years I further pledge to accept only $1.45 an hour for working at McDonalds or as a Walmart greeter, since it was the minimum wage in February 1970.

I, ___________, as a conservative, hereby pledge to have my parents, or other loved ones, refuse all health care they are currently receiving from any government program, such as Medicare or Medicaid, and I further pledge to pay for all my parent's health bills. And I will further pledge to have my parents move in with me and give them 24 hour care instead of using any government subsidized nursing care or hospice care services, since I know such services are evil since they are 'socialistic' and therefore evil.

I, ___________, as a conservative do hereby pledge I will continue my condemnations of the poor in the Charles Dickens story, "A Christmas Carol", because I know Bob Cratchit's family were lazy deadbeats who could pay for their own health care and gotten help for their son, Tiny Tim, if they wanted to. I believe Tiny Tim should be prevented from getting health care and die, because he is poor.  

I, _________, as a conservative believe in individual rights for CEOs and business owners like Ebenezer Scrooge, but not for individual rights to life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness for those who are poor, downtrodden or oppressed. Also, because I believe the poor in the Bible were deadbeats, I will continue to condemn Jesus because he was an evil socialist because he healed the sick for free, he fed the hungry for free and he lifted the spirits of the downtrodden for free. I also condemn the Good Samaritan for not charging to help that poor, beaten man who was left for dead on the side of a lonely road. I believe that the priest and the temple assistant who first found the beaten man and left him for dead without helping him did the right thing and that the Good Samaritan was an evil socialist, because not only did the Good Samaritan help the beaten man, he even gave him money so he could feed and cloth himself.

I, _________, as a conservative further condemn Jesus for always attacking the rich and praising the poor, because I know CEOs and the wealthy are the true children of god because, after all, look at how much 'god' has rewarded them. As a conservative, I believe those on Wall Street deserve to make as much money as possible by using schemes and scams, like hedge fund manager John Paulson, who made 3.7 billion in 2007 alone for betting against homeowners, shareholders and other hard working Americans. As a conservative I believe people like Mr. Paulson should retain their 'right' to make 3.7 billion behind a computer producing nothing for his fellow man or society. As a conservative, I believe Wall Street executives should be paid 105,615 times more than hard working teachers, firefighters, police officers and nurses, even though I know these hard working people actually contribute to society and help their fellow man, while Wall Street executives produce nothing for society. As a conservative, I believe greed is a virtue, while helping others, as teachers, police officers and nurses do, are really suckers and losers, because I equate 'success' with a person's ability to make money. I believe those who choose to refuse to help their fellow man, their families and their loved ones so that they can pursue their lust for money are the true followers of my capitalistic god. I know that anyone who is poor is a deadbeat, loser, drug addict or illegal alien and therefore they should be used to enrich those who can exploit them for financial gain. As a conservative I know anyone who chooses to sacrifice their lives and their life savings to help a sick family member is to be condemned.

I, _________, as a conservative I also believe Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were dangerous socialistic suckers for believing in Jesus' teachings, since Jesus taught compassion, empathy and love for one's fellow man. I know conservative extremism teaches that the powerful & the rich should have dominion over the wretched poor.  The Books of Hannity, Beck and Limbaugh teach me that Jesus should have let the hungry starve, the sick die and the downtrodden suffer in silence so that the rich could profit from their misery. As a conservative I believe my love for my fellow man is proportional to the amount I can victimize them. I believe the 1% of the population should own 95% of the wealth, because they had the sociopathic ability to profit off of the backs of those who actually built our country, like the hardworking poor and slaves.

I, _________, as a conservative now reject Matthew, Mark, Luke & John and hereby embrace my new disciples, Bernie, Mark, Jeffrey and Ken, my new idols and people I believe to be the true disciples of unbridled capitalism & greed. I believe they are the holiest of the holy because, after all, they wouldn't be rewarded with billions of dollars in wealth if they were not blessed by God. I further pledge to put no other gods before me than these holy men of capitalism. I pledge to always follow the teachings of BERNIE (Madoff), MARK (Sanford), JEFFREY (Skilling) & KEN (Lay), the blessed teachers of unrestricted, unregulated capitalism.

I, _________, as a conservative pledge to always trust corporations and corporate leaders because I know profits are more important than human beings. I believe in the 'god of victimization' where those with criminal minds should be rewarded for their ability to devise scams, schemes & systems to victimize others. I especially love the passage in the conservative bible, "Bernie (Madoff) 12:4:23" where he proclaims, "And the rich & powerful shall rule over the masses, and profits over people is a divine right from 'God'.  I also love the quote in the conservative bible, "Jeffrey (Skilling) 14:21:6" where he states, "Deregulation is godly because it allows sociopathic businessmen, like myself, to victimize the vulnerable without restraint or conscience ". 

I, _________, as a conservative pledge to always follow in the inflammatory, hateful, racist and repulsive teachings of right wing radio. I believe in the Conservative Book of Limbaugh, where in "Rush 10:16:4" he proclaims "Chickenhawks are blessed, for they support war, destruction and killing, while never subjecting themselves to the dangers of participating in their country's battles". And I believe in the Book of Hannity, where he states, "Blessed are the rich who make billions off of the blood of our soldiers who die in battles in wars started by lies". And I also believe in the Book of Beck, where he states "Soldiers shall be used as a low-paid mercenary force to protect the financial interests of capitalist corporations who steal hundreds of billions from the government's treasury".

I, _________, as a conservative who always trusts the government to start wars, trusts government to bomb people, trusts government to spy on people, trusts government to incarcerate people without charges, trusts government to torture people, trusts government to arrest people without warrants and trusts government to use secret wiretaps on people, do hereby pledge to continue to distrust government to help heal sick and dying Americans. I fear government intrusion into my life, but I cheer on corporate intrusions into my privacy, my livelihood, and my life. I fear any government attempt to heal people, yet trust government to kill, maim, torture, arrest, incarcerate and execute people.

I, ________, as a conservative, make these pledges in the name of the 'god of unbridled, unregulated capitalism' and in the names of its disciples, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck.  As a conservative, I pledge to always let hate, racism, anger, fear and rage guide my every thought and action. Amen and amen.

the internets. DARPA, United States Department of Defense, was responsible for funding the development computer networking, as well as NLS, which was both the first hypertext system, and an important precursor to the contemporary ubiquitous graphical user interface. Obviously socialist.

Maybe it was on Colbert? I'm not sure. Stossel, a total libertarian douche, was insisting that if every airline was simply allowed to do what was in it's own best interest, there would be no problems, no need for the FAA, thus rendering air travel much cheaper.

It's all fun and games until there's a mid-air collision, I guess.

http://www.thereifixedit.com

Yet they honestly think it would be ok if they and their neighbors were allowed to do things however they want to.

Damn communists.

Palin attempted to fire the librarian in Wassila until the town rose up against her. Palin demanded the librarian remove books and the librarian refused. Isn't that what the Nazis and Commies did?

The story:
http://www.adn.com/2008/09/04/515512/palin-pressured-wasilla-librarian.html

has been inspected by the FDA.

This is going to make a great list.

Think about it. Back in 1988 when the gangsta rap group N.W.A released its controversial song "Fuck Tha Police", conservatives were up in flames about it. And I thought that conservatives were pro-police given that they defend any officer(s) accused of brutality (especially if the supposed victim was not white). However, in this year's uprising in anti-government violence in the US there've been cases where people attacked police based on libertarian views, such as John Patrick Bedell, who shot the two Pentagon police officers last month, or whoever sent tea powder to the Boston Police Department recently.

And good point about Somalia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy_in_Somalia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4017147.stm

DON'T VOTE!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_America_Vote_Act

and if you want to vote you have to pay to use the voting machine or buy a ballot.

Let's see...

Most of it's actually tap water, drawn from a socialist city water supply.

It's transported via socialist public roads in trucks governed by the socialist Department of Transportation.

It's sold in stores who were built with socialist tax breaks, and staffed by people who make so little they have to rely on socialist public assistance.

If you can't draw water from your own well, a body of water on your own land, or collect rain water, you need to stop using water.

... by some gubmint barakracy? FDA be damned, keep your gubmint hands off my bottled water!!!


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Any serious tea party members, since this seems to be their main complaints.. have them sign up





I do solemnly swear to uphold the principles of a socialism-free society and heretofore pledge my word that I shall
abstain from the use of and participation in any socialist goods and services including but not limited to the following:

•Social Security
•Medicare/Medicaid
•State Children’s Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP)
•Police, Fire, and Emergency Services
•US Postal Service
•Roads and Highways
•Air Travel (regulated by the socialist FAA)
•The US Railway System
•Public Subways and Metro Systems
•Public Bus and Lightrail Systems
•Rest Areas on Highways
•Sidewalks
•All Government-Funded Local/State Projects
•Public Water and Sewer Services (goodbye socialist toilet, shower, dishwasher, kitchen sink, outdoor hose!)
•Public and State Universities and Colleges
•Public Primary and Secondary Schools
•Sesame Street
•Publicly Funded Anti-Drug Use Education for Children
•Public Museums
•Libraries
•Public Parks and Beaches
•State and National Parks
•Public Zoos
•Unemployment Insurance
•Municipal Garbage and Recycling Services
•Treatment at Any Hospital or Clinic That Ever Received Funding From Local, State or Federal Government (pretty much all of them)
•Medical Services and Medications That Were Created or Derived From Any Government Grant or Research Funding (again, pretty much all of them)
•Socialist Byproducts of Government Investment Such as Duct Tape and Velcro (Nazi-NASA Inventions)
•Use of the Internets, email, and networked computers, as the DoD's ARPANET was the basis for subsequent computer networking
•Foodstuffs, Meats, Produce and Crops That Were Grown With, Fed With, Raised With or That Contain Inputs From Crops Grown With Government Subsidies
•Clothing Made from Crops (e.g. cotton) That Were Grown With or That Contain Inputs From Government Subsidies
If a veteran of the government-run socialist US military, I will forego my VA benefits and insist on paying for my own medical care
I will not tour socialist government buildings like the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
I pledge to never take myself, my family, or my children on a tour of the following types of socialist locations, including but not limited to:
•Smithsonian Museums such as the Air and Space Museum or Museum of American History
•The socialist Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson Monuments
•The government-operated Statue of Liberty
•The Grand Canyon
•The socialist World War II and Vietnam Veterans Memorials
•The government-run socialist-propaganda location known as Arlington National Cemetery
•All other public-funded socialist sites, whether it be in my state or in Washington, DC

I will urge my Member of Congress and Senators to forego their government salary and government-provided healthcare.

I will oppose and condemn the government-funded and therefore socialist military of the United States of America.

I will boycott the products of socialist defense contractors such as GE, Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Humana, FedEx, General Motors, Honeywell, and hundreds of others that are paid by our socialist government to produce goods for our socialist army.

I will protest socialist security departments such as the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, TSA, Department of Justice and their socialist employees.

Upon reaching eligible retirement age, I will tear up my socialist Social Security checks.

Upon reaching age 65, I will forego Medicare and pay for my own private health insurance until I die.


SWORN ON A BIBLE AND SIGNED THIS DAY OF __________ IN THE YEAR ___.
_____________ _________________________
Signed Printed Name/Town and State

They can't sign the damn thing !! The ink and paper they use to sign it are regulated by the socialist government !!

use parchment and blood.... true patriots that they are that would be a small price to pay.

This is great.

:rofl:

I thought it is serious

Yet, many DUers continue to cheer for him.

:crazy:

by Martin Luther King: "Congress had shown its hostility to the poor, by appropriating military funds with alacrity and generosity, but providing poverty funds with miserliness."

Do you remember where you found it?

I was researching a post I made about MLK. Its in my journal.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/dajoki/79

I don't believe that the puppet people who spout such nonsense about "socialism" have the slightest idea what they are saying. They're saying what they have been told to say by the puppetmasters at Fox "News" and on right-wing hatriot radio.

It's amazing how many Americans can't (or won't) think for themselves. It's the Land of the Sheep.

If so, you shall not attend the event.

If you will have kids attending college, they can only attend private schools. Be prepared for sticker shock when you compare the cost of a private college education with a state-supported college education.

subsidized schools (all public schools) all his life, through college, then got a job as a professor in anopther fedarally subsidized school, then ran for elective office and got on the government payroll, now collects a federal pension and benefits while condemning socialism for a living.
If there were degrees of being a piece of shit, Newt would be on top of the heap.

mark

Literally, from birth, Gramm lived a taxpayer-subsidized life. He was born in a military hospital. He taught at Texas A&M, and lived off the taxpayer's dime as a U.S. Rep and Senator.

It seems the louder they denounce government, the more they've lived off the taxpayer's dime.

I loved that Environmental Working Group website that lists all farmers by county in the U.S. and the amount of federal farm program dollars they received. The biggest recipients were the ones who you always heard saying we didn't need the government in agriculture.

Billboards.

Full- half-page newspaper ads.

Signs in/on buses.

"Ve haf vays...."

because I used to live in the South even though I'm from California.

I know a lot of people in Conservative areas that are big college football and basketball fans.

So say bye bye to the Uni of North Carolina basketball.

...and Florida Gator Football
...and the U of Alabama
...and U of Tennessee
...and Ole Miss
...and the U of Georgia Bulldogs
...and the Texas Longhorns
...and on and on


BTW, if you want your favorite sports team to have a new stadium, you'll have to donate to it personally.

No more taxpayer-funded stadiums. I'm not even a Dallas Cowboys fan. How much public money did Jerry Jones get to build that fancy new stadium, with the big screen that's wider than some houses?

How much you want to bet these teabaggers can't even think that far.

K&R

Like most of you, what pisses me off the most is that most of the stupid bastards carrying their little signs are benefiting in some way from the very programs they're protesting. And those who aren't, like the prick who threw money at the vet and yelling "NO HANDOUTS!" is just a bad day at work away from actually becoming that vet.

Don't use bridges.

don't use utilities of ANY kind (electricity, bathrooms in public places) etc.

don't use the landline phone to make any calls.

don't renew driver's licences (or non-driver's ID) at the DMV.

don't watch MLB baseball and or NFL because they have Luxury Tax, and Salary Cap and Revenue Sharing...

am I missing other government run things, and or "socialistic ideas?"

don't use the town dump, and don't depend on garbage collectors.
Don't burn it either, because where I live, a burning permit is required from the state (via the town)--but only for brush and so on. It is illegal by socialist laws to burn garbage--oh, poor widdle antisocialist morons, what will they do?

on edit: there are private trash collection companies, but they have contracts with towns to use their dumps--so they'd be out, too.

sent it to my whole address book.

unemployment benefits, VA benefits, and any other disaster relief benefits. These people are a fucking joke. More then half are probably on SS and MC and just don't think anyone else born after 1970 should be on them.....

It appears to me that there's been an organized effort to propagate that meme to the exclusion of any other lately.

I AM AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE

this morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US department of energy.
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility.
After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the national weather service of the national oceanographic and atmospheric administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the national aeronautics and space administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US department of agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the food and drug administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US congress and kept accurate by the national institute of standards and technology and the US naval observatory, I get into my national highway traffic safety administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal departments of transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the environmental protection agency, using legal tender issed by the federal reserve bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US postal service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the department of labor and the occupational safety and health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to ny house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and fire marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all it's valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log on to the internet which was developed by the defense advanced research projects administration and post on freerepublic.com and fox news forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right.

(created by poster randomnoise on somethingawful.com forums)

I've seen it, or variations, through the last few years, and this one seems more excellent than most.

:thumbsup:

Thanks for the link:)

Here's the link to their Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Government-is-Good/109490889072513?v=wall

According to the teabagging runts, "The goverment is overspending! Keep your hands off of my money!" Ignorant fools.

bookmarked and forwarded to dozens.

Hell them neanderbaggers can't even stay off of their sisters, or the neighbors livestock!