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Old timers like me who have been around to witness the last 10 presidencies I certainly have some comments to share based on my past years of observation regarding human behavior and how that could relate to the future endeavors of our president elect who is a firm socialist practitioner believing in more government and levying additional taxes for the upper middle class and distribute the wealth among the poor by way of more social, health and welfare programs.
3 subjects will always stir controversies: religion, politics, and race. There is no right or wrong answers. I am only sharing with you a very important part of history through my very personal experience in an extreme socialist society.
I will rewind 40 years during my early childhood journey. The year was 1967 during the peak of Cultural Revolution in Canton, China. My wealthy family was already stripped of its wealth and distributed among the poor 18 years prior. The citizens had already lived 20 years into a socialist society where the government favored the majority of the masses, the poor. The educated, cultural and intellectuals were mostly executed, jailed, or reformed through labor camp. The poor and uneducated were recruited to lead while the rich were condemned and paraded through the public street as sinners. Some of my relatives were hung and executed by firing squads. Every household at that time were issued exactly the same amount of food, compensation and goods. Everyone had jobs in farms and factories. The hardest workers also got the same compensation from the government as the lazy workers. That year all crops were destroyed by rodent and pest. Chairman Mao did not foresee the need of a chemist since he killed them all so there was no one to make insecticide or rodent poison. He came up with an idea to motivate and inspire all his countrymen to eradicate the pest by offering bonus food vouchers in exchange for rodent captured and killed. The entire country was out trapping and killing cockroaches and rats. The great socialist plan worked only for a while until rodents became scarce. The people then began to harvest and raised them in homes so they can turn them in for more food vouchers.
Since lazy people get the same amount of food so why try harder. The government then put in place a supervisor overseeing every 4 workers to make sure that they all work hard. (It sounds like our infamous Cal Tran operation). It worked for a while until the supervisor began to take bribe from the 4 workers and the socialist government was burden with 5 lazy workers. The ripple effect echoed up the chain of commands and the entire country was non productive and did not even produce enough food feed its growing population since healthcare was free and families took advantage of the system by having many children since more kids meant more food vouchers. The government then got really smart then to come up with a ONE child law. We all know horror stories related to that. I remembered our family dog was lead to the kitchen one evening and he cried and my older 40 year old brother smashed his skull as the dog was pleading for his life. He was the family meal because we had not eaten for days. The erosion of an 18 year old socialist country was evident.
Now let me rewind another 18 years. It was the year of 1949. The country had faced with wars and economic recession. People lost their homes and jobs. There was shortage of food. The entire country wanted CHANGE. The country needed reform to healthcare, social program, and welfare to take care of the poor majority. Chairman Mao was articulate and charismatic. He spoke with the confidence like Martin Luther King or J. F. Kennedy. He was a socialist who believed in taking money from the rich and share that among the poor. As the country in distress the people needed a leader for CHANGE. He believed in social programs to heal a country in economic turmoil. He also believed his people will work very hard together in a way to express their gratitude for having free food, healthcare and welfare assistance and the country will become prosperous and live happily after. As Mao was elected as the Premiere there was happiness, chanting, emotion outburst, and a sense of salvation expressed by almost everyone. People paraded for days and poster and propagandas were everywhere to promote unity and work for a common goal. Everyone works hard for the country because the country was taking care of everyone.
The rich were not so happy along with their defeated presidential candidate knowing that the socialist system may potentially fail. They packed along with their precious possessions into many large ships by the thousands heading to the island of Formosa we now called Taiwan.
The text book theory of a socialist society in helping the poor is certainly a noble thing to do. The idea is to help them in such a way that they will get back on their feet and work their butt off in appreciating the government for lending a helping hand. This theory will inspire one out of 5 thousand out of the ghettos. What is the incentive for the welfare recipients when their daily needs are met? Socialist societies have all failed over the years.
I immigrated to this country with my mother. We worked in a sweatshop and refused to be on welfare or any government assistance. My mother said " we have both our hands and feet we are capable people". I lived in my car while attending college. I clean toilets to pay for my college tuition. She is 87 year old with no lauguage or vocational skill and never took a free penny from the government. The high school that I went to were full of welfare recipients and there is no incentive for them to get out of the system when food and money arrived on a regularly basis.
All countries in economic and war turmoil whether in the past or present wanted a leader who appeals to the people?s emotional need. Slogan for CHANGE along with a socialist overtone has prevailed for all mankind here and all across the globe.
3 subjects will always stir controversies: religion, politics, and race. There is no right or wrong answers. I am only sharing with you a very important part of history through my very personal experience in an extreme socialist society.
I will rewind 40 years during my early childhood journey. The year was 1967 during the peak of Cultural Revolution in Canton, China. My wealthy family was already stripped of its wealth and distributed among the poor 18 years prior. The citizens had already lived 20 years into a socialist society where the government favored the majority of the masses, the poor. The educated, cultural and intellectuals were mostly executed, jailed, or reformed through labor camp. The poor and uneducated were recruited to lead while the rich were condemned and paraded through the public street as sinners. Some of my relatives were hung and executed by firing squads. Every household at that time were issued exactly the same amount of food, compensation and goods. Everyone had jobs in farms and factories. The hardest workers also got the same compensation from the government as the lazy workers. That year all crops were destroyed by rodent and pest. Chairman Mao did not foresee the need of a chemist since he killed them all so there was no one to make insecticide or rodent poison. He came up with an idea to motivate and inspire all his countrymen to eradicate the pest by offering bonus food vouchers in exchange for rodent captured and killed. The entire country was out trapping and killing cockroaches and rats. The great socialist plan worked only for a while until rodents became scarce. The people then began to harvest and raised them in homes so they can turn them in for more food vouchers.
Since lazy people get the same amount of food so why try harder. The government then put in place a supervisor overseeing every 4 workers to make sure that they all work hard. (It sounds like our infamous Cal Tran operation). It worked for a while until the supervisor began to take bribe from the 4 workers and the socialist government was burden with 5 lazy workers. The ripple effect echoed up the chain of commands and the entire country was non productive and did not even produce enough food feed its growing population since healthcare was free and families took advantage of the system by having many children since more kids meant more food vouchers. The government then got really smart then to come up with a ONE child law. We all know horror stories related to that. I remembered our family dog was lead to the kitchen one evening and he cried and my older 40 year old brother smashed his skull as the dog was pleading for his life. He was the family meal because we had not eaten for days. The erosion of an 18 year old socialist country was evident.
Now let me rewind another 18 years. It was the year of 1949. The country had faced with wars and economic recession. People lost their homes and jobs. There was shortage of food. The entire country wanted CHANGE. The country needed reform to healthcare, social program, and welfare to take care of the poor majority. Chairman Mao was articulate and charismatic. He spoke with the confidence like Martin Luther King or J. F. Kennedy. He was a socialist who believed in taking money from the rich and share that among the poor. As the country in distress the people needed a leader for CHANGE. He believed in social programs to heal a country in economic turmoil. He also believed his people will work very hard together in a way to express their gratitude for having free food, healthcare and welfare assistance and the country will become prosperous and live happily after. As Mao was elected as the Premiere there was happiness, chanting, emotion outburst, and a sense of salvation expressed by almost everyone. People paraded for days and poster and propagandas were everywhere to promote unity and work for a common goal. Everyone works hard for the country because the country was taking care of everyone.
The rich were not so happy along with their defeated presidential candidate knowing that the socialist system may potentially fail. They packed along with their precious possessions into many large ships by the thousands heading to the island of Formosa we now called Taiwan.
The text book theory of a socialist society in helping the poor is certainly a noble thing to do. The idea is to help them in such a way that they will get back on their feet and work their butt off in appreciating the government for lending a helping hand. This theory will inspire one out of 5 thousand out of the ghettos. What is the incentive for the welfare recipients when their daily needs are met? Socialist societies have all failed over the years.
I immigrated to this country with my mother. We worked in a sweatshop and refused to be on welfare or any government assistance. My mother said " we have both our hands and feet we are capable people". I lived in my car while attending college. I clean toilets to pay for my college tuition. She is 87 year old with no lauguage or vocational skill and never took a free penny from the government. The high school that I went to were full of welfare recipients and there is no incentive for them to get out of the system when food and money arrived on a regularly basis.
All countries in economic and war turmoil whether in the past or present wanted a leader who appeals to the people?s emotional need. Slogan for CHANGE along with a socialist overtone has prevailed for all mankind here and all across the globe.
