RE: The Absurd GOP
May 24, 2023 at 4:54 am
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2023 at 4:55 am by Deesse23.)
(May 24, 2023 at 4:00 am)Rev. Rye Wrote:(May 24, 2023 at 1:12 am)Helios Wrote: Economically the people's quality of life and safety must be sacrificed for mere competitiveness or to grow a mere number. The economy serves the people the people are not cogs for the economy nor does one need to be sacrificed for the other as that is simply a fallacy either or fallacy of the ugliest kind. Nor should free Western democracy try and emulate authoritarian regimes. We can do things our own way. We don't need to become the devil to defeat it.
Frankly, this talk about how it's better to get rid of the welfare state for this abstract number reminds me of a time when a certain European country did something very similar*. It didn't work out too well in the long term.
Translation: "60,000 Reichsmarks [Ed: Roughly $514.674.12 in 2022 money]. That's what this person suffering from hereditary defects costs the Volk's community during his lifetime. Compatriots, that's your money, too!"
*Note: I'm aware that the Nazis weren't totally against the welfare state, but their social welfare organization restricted its charity to, well, the sort of people the Nazis wouldn't want to kill.
Actually, the nazis EXPANDED Bismarcks welfare state, a LOT (paid sick leave, improved health insurance, etc.). I can give you many more examples. You will be rather surprised!!! Last but not least "Kraft durch Freude", Wilhelm Gustloff, the monstrous holiday resorts at the baltic coast, the ruins are still there.
The point about fascism is: The welfare was not for the (individual) peoples´sake, but for the community. The individuals serve the community not vice versa (in nazism). Nazis did only care about the health of individuals as long as they were contributing to the goals of socienty.
Also the nazis had a rather tight definition of (domestic) "society", thats what this propaganda pic is all about. Sick, foreigners, and other "worthless" scum is to be excluded, because they only are a burden.....to socienty.
Sp, yeah, your last statement was the (most) important part of your post and spot on!
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