Today is February 7th, a day with quite a bit of history surrounding it; for instance, did you know, on this date in 1935 “Felix the Cat” made his first appearance, in 1936 “Monopoly” was invented, in 1958 the “Dodgers” moved to Los Angeles and in 1964 Baskin Robbins introduced an ice cream called “Beatle Nut”, in honor of the British Invasion of Rock N’ Roll! Some of this may sound a little trivial to most of you, but to the people of Brooklyn, New York it was a devastating date as they saw their beloved “Bums” moved to the land of “fruits and nuts”.
I have a large number of readers in Russia; actually, Russia is my second largest group outside of the United States. I value my Russian readers very much, as they are people who have only had a free government for a relatively few years, and are certainly suffering some “birth pangs” in the free enterprise system. It is definitely rough when a free people must make political choices from more than one party: America can testify to that.
On February 7th 1991, Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee agreed to end the single party dominance of the Soviet Union, allowing a political challenge to the communists who had been in power for 70 years. Later that year, on Christmas day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned the Presidency, and the Soviet Union itself ceased to exist on New Year’s Eve. In eleven months, the most powerful communist country on planet Earth collapsed.
I grew up with the “Cold War”, and I always looked at the Soviet Union as a nation of great power, second only to the United States in military might, hidden behind the “Iron Curtain” like a frightening giant, holding nuclear missiles, pointed toward America. How did the Soviet Union collapse; it is really very simple. America simply out spent them on defense and “drove them broke”; free enterprise makes money and socialism doesn’t. A nation that has a thriving economy with large manufacturing and investment will produce enough tax to support a strong military. The Soviet Union didn’t generate enough in its socialist economy to support its military efforts, and it “folded”.
This little scenario is a valuable lesson for all of my fellow Americans. The Soviet Union was powerful. It had great natural resources and wielded influence all across Eastern Europe and the world, yet its socialist agenda caused it to fall away, cease to exist, disappear. Whether it is 70 years or less, socialism will destroy a strong nation. Freedom to achieve is the real key to strength, regulation and government control over a nation’s citizens makes those citizens slaves to the system, and eventually those controls will cause the nation to cave in, like a building with all the supports removed.
The old Soviet Union had government housing, and collective farms of massive size, yet there were always problems of not having enough food. We sent wheat to Russia because the free American farmer produced more than we needed; because he made his own profit, he didn’t farm for the government. This same axiom holds true in industry and business.
America will be voting in November, and we have a chief executive with socialistic ideals; those ideals that have proven to be spurious every time they have been put into practice. I don’t want America to fall away in the next two or three years because we elected a president who feeds the American people a load of garbage about “evening things out”. IT WILL NOT WORK!! He has already started to weaken our military; he cannot be allowed to go any further. Maintain American strength, and DON’T RE-ELECT BARACK OBAMA IN 2012!!
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