The Bill of Rights

SOCIALISM:
Does it Fit Mankind?
Phil Davis: Op-Ed

Socialism would not work in a society and particular for most individuals. Because it stunts their desire to make more money for themselves because it would be taken away and given to others who have less than you do! Here is an example: You are an electrician and you make $12 per hour. Likewise, one who sweeps and cleans up your work area makes $12 per hour; get it?

Do you know who has a higher standard of living in a Socialistic form of government? Those who hold the power over you. Do you know why you hold out hope for more “things” or for someone else to supplement your own bills? Because it will make you feel better. So for the sake of argument, lets say Obama and his machine is successful in turning this country into a Socialistic regime. Will you be happier? For a short time, those who crave relief will be happier. Why only a short time? Because you are going to want more things later on. Will you most likely get them? No. Why? Because there is only so much money to redistribute around and besides you only get the amount of money the State thinks you need. Will this make you happy that you are not going to get what you want or need? No. Will you eventually get tired of limited freedoms and the limited potential to increase personal wealth? Yes.

I will explain in detail why a Socialistic system does not work. Unless of course, there is force behind the government that prevents stopping it like most Socialistic forms of government. Stay tuned for the shocking answer! Find out why only Capitalism creates the greatest happiness and potential for the individual; based on scientific proof!

Abraham Maslow developed a theory of personality that has influenced a number of different fields, including education. This wide influence is due in part to the high level of practicality of Maslow's theory. This theory accurately describes many realities of personal experiences. Many people find they can understand what Maslow says. They can recognize some features of their experience or behavior which is true and identifiable but which they have never put into words.

Maslow is a humanistic psychologist. Humanists do not believe that human beings are pushed and pulled by mechanical forces, either of stimuli and reinforcements (behaviorism) or of unconscious instinctual impulses (psychoanalysis). Humanists focus upon potentials. They believe that humans strive for an upper level of capabilities. Humans seek the frontiers of creativity, the highest reaches of consciousness and wisdom. This has been labeled "fully functioning person", "healthy personality", or as Maslow calls this level, "self-actualizing person."

Maslow has set up a hierarchic theory of needs. All of his basic needs are instinctoid, equivalent of instincts in animals. Humans start with a very weak disposition that is then fashioned fully as the person grows. If the environment is right, people will grow straight and beautiful, actualizing the potentials they have inherited. If the environment is not "right" (and mostly it is not) they will not grow tall and straight and beautiful.

Maslow has set up a hierarchy of five levels of basic needs. Beyond these needs, higher levels of needs exist. These include needs for understanding, esthetic appreciation and purely spiritual needs. In the levels of the five basic needs, the person does not feel the second need until the demands of the first have been satisfied, nor the third until the second has been satisfied, and so on. Maslow's basic needs are as follows:

Physiological Needs
These are biological needs. They consist of needs for oxygen, food, water, and a relatively constant body temperature. They are the strongest needs because if a person were deprived of all needs, the physiological ones would come first in the person's search for satisfaction.

Safety Needs
When all physiological needs are satisfied and are no longer controlling thoughts and behaviors, the needs for security can become active. Adults have little awareness of their security needs except in times of emergency or periods of disorganization in the social structure (such as widespread rioting). Children often display the signs of insecurity and the need to be safe.

Needs of Love,
Affection and Belonging
When the needs for safety and for physiological well-being are satisfied, the next class of needs for love, affection and belongingness can emerge. Maslow states that people seek to overcome feelings of loneliness and alienation. This involves both giving and receiving love, affection and the sense of belonging.

Needs for Esteem
When the first three classes of needs are satisfied, the needs for esteem can become dominant. These involve needs for both self-esteem and for the esteem a person gets from others. Humans have a need for a stable, firmly based, high level of self-respect, and respect from others. When these needs are satisfied, the person feels self-confident and valuable as a person in the world. When these needs are frustrated, the person feels inferior, weak, helpless and worthless.

Needs for
Self-Actualization

When all of the foregoing needs are satisfied, then and only then are the needs for self-actualization activated. Maslow describes self-actualization as a person's need to be and do that which the person was "born to do." "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, and a poet must write." These needs make themselves felt in signs of restlessness. The person feels on edge, tense, lacking something, in short, restless. If a person is hungry, unsafe, not loved or accepted, or lacking self-esteem, it is very easy to know what the person is restless about. It is not always clear what a person wants when there is a need for self-actualization.

The hierarchic theory is often represented as a pyramid, with the larger, lower levels representing the lower needs, and the upper point representing the need for self-actualization. Maslow believes that the only reason that people would not move well in direction of self-actualization is because of hindrances placed in their way by society.

If the Socialists (Democrats), which are currently in power have their way Socialism will be implemented in this country. However, that would only be their first step to total domination of the American public, including possible Fascism. In a Socialist controlled nation the lines of natural human achievement are stunted allowing only the most poor and cash strapped to complete a partial Needs of “Love/Belonging“. While sending the rest to the bottom along with them (redistribution). However, the maintaining of this partial level (Love/Belonging) would be very limited, and short lived due to rationing of health care, high taxes, limited employment choices, and dwindling resources which would be continually eroded through rationing, thus keeping most at the “Safety level“. So at best case scenario, this level can only be partially supported by a socialistic regime for a short period of time. Now factor in population growth and this problem is magnified; just look at China! As I indicated earlier, this achievement will only suffice for a short while until the desire for the next higher natural needs automatically kick in. The diagram will show you where the needs for all will (except the power elite) be set in the United States if the country continues down the socialist road. Achievement will be stopped because there would be limited personal incentive to excel any further due to extreme governmental controls and stunted payment/rewards for success. The lack of personal reward in ones personal natural climb to achieve would be severely cut. In fact all the goals above “Love/Belonging” is twisted and used by socialists as their reasoning for implementing total governmental control over everyone's life. Indicating that it is those who achieve, that block you from excelling. While in reality it is those that create opportunity through enterprise that opens up further opportunities for you. In this reality only those who hold the power reap the benefits above the “Love/Belonging” level. Their standard of living is far above all in the country that do not share in the power! Capitalism is the only near perfect pathway for all to better themselves, including all around them that reach for that next “rung!”

So what have we done as a society that our youth could muster such a turn-out during the 2008 election? I believe, that in part, we have failed to instill well founded virtues in our youth. They have been taught to expect entitlements not earned (Socialism). I believe this is why the country has voted in our current government based on entitlement promises. In reality many in the government embrace radical ideas to severely limit our freedoms by trading them in for limited entitlements! If you understood anything from the article: “Socialism: Does it Fit Mankind?”; man is not born to be limited in anything except by his own choice.

One of our Founders had the following comments and warning concerning the lack of virtue:

Samuel Adams
letter to James Warren
November 4, 1775
Topic: Virtue

Since private and publick Vices, are in Reality, though not always apparently, so nearly connected, of how much Importance, how necessary is it, that the utmost Pains be taken by the Public, to have the Principles of Virtue early inculcated on the Minds even of children, and the moral Sense kept alive, and that the wise institutions of our Ancestors for these great Purposes be encouraged by the
Government. For no people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.

Samuel Adams
letter to James Warren
February 12, 1779
Topic: Virtue

A general dissolution of principles and manners will ore surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.

PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY. THEN ASK YOURSELF: HAVE WE REACHED THE POINT
OF COLLAPSE AS A FREE NATION?

George Washington
fragments of the Draft First Inaugural Address:
April 1, 1789
Topic: CONSTITUTION

The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes. Should, hereafter, those incited by the lust of power and prompted by the Supineness or venality of their Constituents, overleap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity: it will only serve to shew, that no compact among men (however provident in its construction and sacred in its ratification) can be pronounced everlasting an inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchm[en]t can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.