Reading harold_maude's journal

I was reading through the forums and came across the question posed by Bunk about the little red hen.

I ended up doing some reading because I could see it being propaganda for both at first, but then as I looked deeper I found that it was more likely about something else.
I think if I was going to put it in the propaganda catagory I would have to look at it as propagana for religion.

That aside, where my reading took me was to the ideologies of both socialism and captialism.
There is definately alot of information about both!
Capitalism it seems is old. It's as least as old as the roman empire.
And socialism was birthed out of the need for change from a very soficating political and economic system in which the poor had nothing and the rich had everything.
Sounds alot like alot of the world today.
History keeps repeating it's self.

Seems that now all over the world resistance and revolution are happening because the goverments of the world as they operate now are more about the few who are privileged and less about the masses who have little or nothing.
No wonder Thomas Jefferson said that it is our duty to over throw the goverment. He realized, just as the people who were his contemporaries that govement tends tord coruption and oppression of the common man.

Most highly industrialized societies have goverments that are bigger than they should be, and end up being this thing that needs lots and lots of money just to keep going.

Being an american, I look at the goverment of this country as a prime example of that.
We have more buracrats, more unnessiary goverment intrusion and more waste than the people should ever have to put up with.
The man who is in the highest office for his second term has made things a whole lot worse by involving all of us in this crazy war that should never have been started in the first place.

I am very sure that there are people who will completely disagree with that, but that's ok. I do believe in freedom of speech.

The basis for going to war was a complete illusion. And in my opinion had more to do with oil than bringing democracy to a part of the world that really wasn't interested in democracy in the first place.
Who are we to decide what a country and it's people should believe?
We are not the surpreme monarchy of the world.

And now because of all this non sense, many countries of the world hate this country.
I can't say that I blame any of them for feeling that way.
He went off half cocked and took the rest of us with him, dispite what many of us tried to tell him.
The man was not listening, and now we have this mess.

I've heard that a couple of states have decreed that when he leaves office if he chooses to go to thoes states he will be tried for war crimes.
Good for them. I think every state in the union should follow suit.

Anyway, I'm getting side tracked.
Socialism it seems, at least in it's intent, is about people governing themselves in all areas of life.
I think that's what the fore fathers of this country had in mind when they chose that this country would be a republic.
It's not a democracy, it's a republic.
There is a difference, but people often think the united states is a democracy rather than a republic.

I think the forefathers understood that most people living here did not have enough education or need to understand the workings of goverment.
Goverment has little to do with raising food. Or survival.
Now it does of course, but back when this country was just cutting it's teeth on establishing what goverment in this country needed to or should mean.

The avarage person of the time had more important things to do than think about goverment.
George washington didn't want to be the leader of the goverment.
He didn't want to be another king george.
I'm pretty sure that's why it was decited that who ever ended up being president would only be allowed to serve a term of 4 years.

They worked hard to put down principles that the goverment needed to abide by.
The constitution.
The foundation on which this goverment which is now so corrupt and so huge that most of the time no one has much of an idea of all the stuff that goes on and how much it really is costing all of the people, was designed to keep goverment at a minum, not the biggest consumer of everything in the country.

Sounds like I don't like our goverment, doesn't it.
I don't like what it has become. Now we have to throw money at it because it's got a life all it's own and because it's so fat we are required to keep feeding it.

gotta stop ranting for a bit...

It only looks that way because your standing on your head.