Please, America, Learn from Egypt’s Experience: Avoid Socialism
Latest update: December 5th, 2012
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Author Nonie Darwish
If America opens its borders without restrictions, more than half the world’s population will come here. It is America’s capitalist system that is still a dream come true to many who are happy to leave their stagnant, dysfunctional economies, burdened with both class envy and the redistribution by government bureaucrats of hard-earned money. Many immigrants risked their lives to trade their substandard, government-run health insurance for life in America, where hard work is rewarded with a better standard of living for most of its people than anywhere ever before.
Immigrants in America today are faced with a dilemma: they are being told that they must deny their appreciation of the capitalist system that brought them here in the first place. Their children are taught to reject their parents’ experience of hard work to get ahead and regard their parents as victims of discrimination and abuse. They are rewarded for complaining and for rejecting free enterprise, self-reliance, assimilation and all the American values that made this country the envy of the world. They are told to look at the half empty glass and are encouraged to throw out their freedoms for food stamps. They are told to hate white people, and those who do not are shamed as traitors to their race.
Today in America, every national origin and race is encouraged to find a minority group to belong to. We are encouraged to get into a system of tribalism that turns us into factions with an “us against them” mentality, something we have suffered from in the Middle East.
In Egypt, we suffered under socialism and the government’s empty promises of equality through seizing wealth from the rich to give to the poor. We ended up with terrible unintended consequences; the rich did get poorer but the poor also got poorer: nobody won. The culture of envy and punishing the rich never brought equality or improved conditions for the poor. The great thing about America is that the poor do not have to stay poor and the rich can lose their wealth if they invest it unwisely. What immigrants see is the high rate of mobility between classes.
Americans are left uninformed by their media on how the rest of the world lives. Try watching “House Hunters International,” where Americans can see for themselves that homes and apartments around the world are both unaffordable to the general public and often unlivable by American standards.
A wonderful, hard working Hispanic family, after years in which the mother worked as a cleaning lady and the father a construction worker, saw all their children graduated from college without ever paying a cent for their education, and now all with wonderful jobs. The children of that family are now are speaking of discrimination, how California was part of Mexico and how it is only fair to redistribute wealth. This was the lesson they learned in college.
It should take just one visit to the Middle East to understand what America is all about. Every American teenager should get a chance to travel and live in a third world country. Some countries might provide government health insurance, but health insurance is a piece of paper; it does not mean good health care. Many countries that provide government health care have high unemployment, terrible shortages of food and apartments and lack many other luxuries Americans take for granted. In America today, politicians are moving in the same direction, possibly deliberately, for votes: high unemployment, less home ownership and more government interference in our lives from cradle to grave.
America is heading towards a society similar to where we immigrants came from, where the government turns into the keeper of a human zoo where we all live in cages waiting for government to throw food at us every day. But even the government will not be able to sustain the zoo expenses. The U.S. government is on its way to becoming the nightmare totalitarian system from which we immigrants tried to escape.
Left on their own, immigrants are grateful to work hard and enjoy the American system, but soon after we are here, we are told by the popular culture that we are victims, must act like ones and we must not accept what America can offer. America wanted more from us when it came time to vote. We are told that the system is rigged and that “whites”, who welcomed us in the millions for centuries, are bigoted and racists. Many immigrants go along with the anti-American propaganda for the sake of approval and benefits. Immigrants are now told to hold on to their old culture, religion, traditional clothes, customs, language, and even some of the brutal, archaic laws and customs that many of us came here to escape from in the first place. The media and “conventional wisdom” now tell us that America is no better than the oppressive systems from which we fled.
tell a friendAbout the Author: Nonie Darwish, President of Former Muslims United and author "The Devil We Don't Know"
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4 Responses to “Please, America, Learn from Egypt’s Experience: Avoid Socialism”
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yes indeed.. but US have an agenda of destruction to follow so that the nwo etc can come into being.. but very sad..i hope britain doesnt go down any such path.. be blessed jen
DO you know how many times Thomas Edison failed before he got electricity to work? About 1000 times Do you still use electricity? Well maybe in 500 tries people will get socialism to work. you never know. But Capitalism has failed too.
Jacob, you cannot use Socialism on 300million people unless they are amenable to it unless you extend it to Communism. Capitalism has worked in the past without the extreme corruption we now see. NOTHING under God will work with the extreme moral corruption of man. I grew up in socialism..in THIS country; it is more than lacking, nerve-wrecking and added “can’t do laws” make one feel like you live in a concentration camp….no THANKS!!
What is needed is a Theocracy; with G_D in charge.
Why is she addressing this to the US? Israel is FAR more socialist. And Israel works far better, at least for health care, public transit, financial sector regulation, affordable higher education, and defense contracting.
In any case, there is only one socialist in the entire US Congress. That is Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and he has the unusual distinction of having run a successful business before he became a Congressman, unlike most of the right wingers who promote the screeds against alleged socialism.
Also, he actually talks when he filibusters, which many in the minority party find rude.
Israel does not have socialized medicine–duh.
Charlie Hall As usual you show your profound ignorance and vacuousness–the democrat party is the American Marxist party and right behind them is the Marxist Republican party.
Progressive income tax–redistribute wealth–is Marxism!
Israel has a progressive income tax.
Israel's has an excellent universal health care system, funded and regulated by the government. I wish we were able to have something like it in the US but the right wingers call such a plan "socialist".
RC you are really ridiculous. There are no Marxists of consequence in American politics today. Stop parroting nonsense; you are embarrassing yourself.
She' addressing the US because the US public has been poisoned by the liberal media's infatuation with obama! Please, keep it up!
Fred,
The election is over. You lost. Get over it.
Its too late–cultural and economic Marxism are too entrenched in America–and it will progressively become worse–as the policies of Marxism are meant to destroy liberty and prosperity!
excellent read about immigration!
WTF is this author talking about? America is nothing at all like this ridiculous description. I'd really like to know how that family put three kids to school without paying a cent-the vast majority of us owe a good $20-50,000 dollars after leaving school. With interest. And more and more of those 'diplomas' are worthless pieces of paper handed out by for-profit 'schools' that only meet standards through the use of legal loopholes.
Neither one of this persons views of America-the one promoted and the one rejected, are at all accurate.
Actually, some states such as New York do a good job of regulating the for-profit educational sector; the degrees mean what they say. But that is another example of a good purpose for government that the author seems to reject.
And more free market capitalism does not necessarily mean better treatment of Jews or better relations with Israel. Turkey's ruling Islamist party AKP has greatly liberalized that country's economy compared to the statist policies set in place by Ataturk and maintained by all secular governments since. But those statist parties mostly treated Jews well and were friendly to Israel. Can we please have a return to power of the statist lefitst opposition CHP in the next election? An even worse example is that the Iranian mullahs were much less into central control of the economy than was the Shah. The author really does need to review history.