The Slippery Slope....

"Slippery slope"~ a suggestion that one action will initiate a chain of events culminating in an undesirable event later. Why is it that: they had fences keeping Soviet citizens in the USSR ~ we have fences to keep people from coming in the USA in droves? Why people risk thier lives to sail from Cuba to the USA; yet US citizens have no thoughts about even visiting Cuba? How China and Korea have hundreds of millions deaths by starvation every year and the U.S. bails them out yearly with donations of hundreds of billions of dollars?

Things that make you go "Hhhhmmmmm....."

Even at the age of 36, I have to admit my Dad ROCKS! As a child, I was raised knowing the difference between communism, socialism and capitalism and A LOT about world politics. OK, maybe it was a little weird being the only kid in elementary and middle school that knew that MAD was not an emotion and SALT was not just a seasoning on the dinner table..however the lessons proved to be valuable. These lessons haven't been taught in our school system for a long time.
This was waiting in my inbox this morning. Oddly enough, I knew the answers...do you?

A little history lesson:
If you don't know the answer, take your best guess.
Answer all the questions before looking at the answers.

Who said it?

1. "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

(A) Karl Marx
(B) Adolph Hitler
(C) Joseph Stalin
(D) None of the above

2. "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few...and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity."

(A) Lenin
(B) Mussolini
(C) Idi Amin
(D) None of the Above

3. "(We)...can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."

(A) Nikita Khrushchev
(B) Josef Goebbels
(C) Boris Yeltsin
(D) None of the above

4. "We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own...in order to create this common ground."

(A) Mao
(B) Hugo Chavez
(C) Kim Jong Il
(D) None of the above

5. "I certainly think the free-market has failed."

(A) Karl Marx
(B) Lenin
(C) Molotov
(D) None of the above

6. "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."

(A) Pinochet
(B) Milosevic
(C) Saddam Hussein
(D) None of the above

Answers

1. (D) None of the above. The statement was made by Hillary Clinton ~ 6/29/2004
2. (D) None of the above. The statement was made by Hillary Clinton ~ 5/29/2007

3. (D) None of the above. The statement was made by Hillary Clinton ~ 6/4/2007
4. (D) None of the above. The statement was made by Hillary Clinton ~ 6/4/2007
5. (D) None of the above. The statement was made by Hillary Clinton ~ 6/4/2007
6. (D) None of the above. The statement was made by Hillary Clinton ~ 9/2/2005

....and just to make the circle complete: The USSR, China, Korea and Cuba got into the possition they are (were, in the case of the USSR) in by "enlightend thinking" that lead to communisim/socialism. How does Hillary Clinton compare to those leaders? How many of you guessed one of the "revolutionaries" as the author of the statements?

Wake up. Listen up. Study the options, then vote.