http://rumcorps.net/mangledthoughts/2004/09/30/who-said-this/ Free markets, capital, and entrepreneurs are the bedrock of civilisation.They dragged man out of the gutters,civilised him,dignified him,gave him liberty.Socialism is an excuse to pauperise untold millions,enslave untold millions,murder untold millions, over a century now: Why has the Liberal Party shifted to the code of savages? Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:07:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://rumcorps.net/mangledthoughts/2004/09/30/who-said-this/#comment-367 Rose Sun, 03 Oct 2004 04:10:41 +0000 http://rumcorps.net/mangledthoughts/2004/09/30/who-said-this/#comment-367 My father was born in 1911- at three years of age his father, a stoker on a RN vessel his life lost when torpedoed by a German U-Boat. His mother omly in her early 30s left to bring up 5 small children with very little if any pension. The children had no shoes in mid winter and were forced to wrap their feet in old newspapers they scavenged pasted with lard to keep out the cold. The experience made my father and his brothers into very staunch socialisst. They seem to offer so much promise. In his early 20's, dad who was a young seaman on a merchant vessel which became icebound for 6 months in Vladisvostock. The utter dispair and poverty of the people in the Great Russian Socialist paradise,of which he had heard so much, was to totally destroy his belief in socialism and he never ever vote other than conservative until he died at age 80 My father was born in 1911- at three years of age his father, a stoker on a RN vessel his life lost when torpedoed by a German U-Boat.
His mother omly in her early 30s left to bring up 5 small children with very little if any pension.
The children had no shoes in mid winter and were forced to wrap their feet in old newspapers they scavenged pasted with lard to keep out the cold.
The experience made my father and his brothers into very staunch socialisst. They seem to offer so much promise. In his early 20’s, dad who was a young seaman on a merchant vessel which became icebound for 6 months in
Vladisvostock. The utter dispair and poverty of the people in the Great Russian Socialist paradise,of which he had heard so much, was
to totally destroy his belief in socialism and he never ever vote other than conservative until he died at age 80

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