R.I.P. Margaret Thatcher. You knew how to expose and ridicule the idiocy of the Socialists.
She battled in defense of free markets and liberty. Such a shame that such powerful and fierce leaders with convictions are so few and far between today.
Quote:But serious as the economic challenge is, the political and moral challenge is just as grave, perhaps more so.
Economic problems never start with economics. They have deeper roots—in human nature and in politics.
They don’t finish at economics either.
Labour’s failure to cope, to look at the nation’s problems from the point of view of the whole nation, not just one section of it, has led to loss of confidence and a sense of helplessness.
With it goes a feeling that Parliament, which ought to be in charge, is not in charge—that the actions and the decisions are taken elsewhere.
And it goes deeper than that. There are voices that seem anxious not to overcome our economic difficulties, but to exploit them, to destroy the free enterprise society and put a Marxist system in its place.
Quote:Whenever I visit Communist countries, their politicians never hesitate to boast about their achievements.
They know them all by heart and reel off the facts and figures, claiming that this is the rich harvest of the Communist system.
Yet they are not prosperous as we in the West are prosperous, and they are not free as we in the West are free.
Our capitalist system produces a far higher standard of prosperity and happiness because it believes in incentive and opportunity, and because it is founded on human dignity and freedom. (Applause).
Even the Russians have to go to a capitalist country, America to buy enough wheat to feed their people. And that after more than 50 years of a State controlled economy.
Quote:So let us have no truck with those who say the free enterprise system has failed. What we face today is not a crisis of capitalism, but of Socialism. No country can flourish if its economic and social life is dominated by nationalisation and state control.
The cause of our shortcomings does not therefore lie in private enterprise. Our problem is not that we have too little socialism. It is that we have too much.
Quote:The spirit of envy can destroy. It can never build…
I guess I sleep better at night knowing I have kinder thoughts for Margaret Thatcher than for thugs like Hugo Chavez.
The liberals out there in the blogosphere and Facebookland were quiet when Chavez kicked the bucket, but can't help make crass comments 'celebrating' Thatcher's death. Though I can't help but wonder if there were only two countries left on the planet - Chavez' Venezuela or Thatcher's England - which one they'd honestly select to live in. Yeah, thought so.
(04-08-2013 08:58 PM)smn1256 Wrote: What was that again about the GOP's war on women? It seems this woman commands a lot of respect here.
Rest in peace knowing you did well.
But just think of what she could have done in the kitchen with her drive and determination.
She might have been able to salvage England's culinary reputation!
In all seriousness, she was a great leader. Even the liberal half of my family (all Britons) have a begrudging respect for her. Keep in mind that they are the kind of people would probably call Robs a radical right-winger. Impressive that Thatcher demanded such respect.
Anyone who defeated the miners' union leader Arthur Scargill - A communist and Stalin sympathizer who screwed his own adoring membership and now hypocritically lives in a million dollar luxury apartment in London, funded by the union's membership dues - deserves a
Yep, Scargill: Union leader, open communist, against elitism and the rich... yet a one-percenter that is now in a money-grabbing lawsuit with his former union comrades to have them pay for his luxuries for life (a lawsuit he lost, LOL).
Well played, Maggie. Well played.
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A bunch of people in Brixton went into the streets for an impromptu party celebrating Thatcher's death (from the looks of it, most are simply 'youth' born after her terms in office).
...Oh, and predictably, it ended in looting and violence.
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The "Iron Lady" Passed Away this morning
