10 Planks

In the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, there are 10 essential planks that must be instituted in order to put in place a Communist Government. This may surprise you.

1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rent to public purpose.

Do we really have Private Property today? Even if you own your house, do you really own your house? Think so? Try not paying your property taxes. Now who owns your house? So if you have to pay money to the Government in order to keep what you own, is that not a form of rent? And have you heard of Eminent Domain? This is the practice where the Government can decide that they want to use your home or land for some purpose that they approve of, and they can force you to sell to them for what they deem a reasonably price, regardless of the actual value.

Seems like we pretty much have this one going on here today.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Ok, I don't think there can be any question that this one is going on. Anyone who works for a living is well of aware of the crazy, out of control income tax structure in this Country. And the purpose of it being progressive is to take as much as possible from those at the top, and give it out, through welfare programs, to those at the bottom. Sound familiar?

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

Death tax anyone? Ok, so we aren't all the way there yet, but it is clear that the Government is trying.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

At this point in time this really only happens to the ones that are pretty far out there, the ones that are really anti-government, but give them time, and they will be after people like me who just want to fix the system, through voting in the right people and informing the public as to what is really going on.

5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.

Have you heard of the Federal Reserve Bank? Have you heard George W. Bush's plan to give them vastly more power? Of course the Democrats don't like it. They say it doesn't go far enough.

6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the State.

With all the regulation in both of these industries, whose hands are they in? And regulation seldom gets repealed.

7. Extention of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

Ok, so the factories and such are still basically private enterprises (though heavily regulated), but there is clearly a lot of the other stuff in the works (just look at all the government departments and administrations to control all of these things).

8. Equal liablity of all to labor. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

Department of Labor anyone?

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.

Ok, so it has been explained to me that this has been happening for quite some time in the US, but honestly, I can't say that I fully understood all of it.

10. Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.

And this may be the most important thing. Taking children out of the home, as much as possible, and keeping them in schools that are controlled by the Government so that the kids can be indoctrinated into following along with all the rest of this stuff. And how are a vast majority of America's youth "educated"? In Government Schools. Oh, we call them Public Schools, but let's be honest, if they were really public schools, the public would have some say over what goes on there, but they don't, it is all Government run, and therefore, they really are Government schools.

So, if there is anyone who thought that I was overstating things when I said that both Obama and Clinton are communist, well, you can see here, I was understating it. They both are determined to move us along this path as fast and as far as possible. Oh, and lest I forget, McCain just wants to go down the road a little slower, but his goals are really the same. This is why I will be voting Third Party this year. Please join me.