Name that Economic Program!

Timothy Birdnow

I want you all to read this very carefully and then tell me where it is from. Is this the Labor Party in Britain? The Democrats?

From the document:

1. Unemployment causes poverty, employment creates prosperity.
2. Capital does not create jobs, but rather jobs create capital.
3. Unemployment benefits burden the economy, but job creation stimulates the economy.
4. Working people cannot be satisfied with meager unemployment benefits. Working people demand the right to a job.

B. Methods of creating job

1. We have the productive capacity for more jobs.
2. We have markets for increased jobs.
3. These markets are available only domestically.
4. Creating jobs requires refocusing the  economy on the domestic market.
5. Focusing on the domestic market requires an increase in agricultural production.
6. The focus on domestic markets must lead to the social liberation of the German worker.
7. What needs to be done.
8. Only the state can accomplish these tasks.

C. Land reclamation

1. The extent of necessary land reclamation work
2. Benefits and costs of the work

D. Working housing

1. The private home as dwelling
2. The private home as a productive space
3. Building settlements of individual homes

E. Finances

1. Financing public job creation
2. Financing production

II. General Economic Measures

F. Commercial and financial measures

1. Foreign trade
2. Foreign currency supplies
3. Law against capital flight
4. Currency reform

G. Bank and credit policy

1. Bank supervision
2. The money transfer system
3. Reducing interest rates

H. Administrative and tax measures

1. Price controls
2. Avoiding excessive expenditures
3. Increasing the burden on those with strong shoulders
4. Eliminating corruption

I. Agriculture

1. The current situation
2. Wrong economic policies
3. Correct economic policies
4. What measures must be taken?
5. Settling the East

J. [omitted]

K. Industry

1. Approval requirements for new production facilities
2. Nationalization and state supervision
3. Easier financing

L. Craftsmen, commerce, and retail

1. The current situation
2. Department stores and consumer societies
3. Cooperatives
4. Publicly-owned concerns
5. Public contracts

M. Social issues

1. The right to employment
2. Existing jobs must be reserved for people’s comrades
3. Social insurance
4. Care of the elderly
5. Profit sharing
6. Labor service

 Now go to the link and read the details.

If you guessed it was the Democrats you would be wrong, but understandably so.

No, this was a pamphlet distributed by the National Socialist German Workers Party in 1932.

If it was proposed by the Democrats we would not bat an eye at it.

This shows the Democrats are the true fascists.

Do read the whole document; it goes into detail and almost all of it - from expanding the money supply to big public works programs to "affordable housing" to tax increases to wage and price controls and targeted subsidies - could come from the Democratic Party platform.

The Nazis were indeed socialists. Socialism is defined by Mirriam Webster as:

Definition of socialism. 1 :any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.

While Fascism/Naziism did not own the means of production outright, they sought to control almost every aspect of economic activity and regulate it. Much like the Democrats today.

As was once said, under Communism the state owns the cow, while under Fascism/socialism you own the cow but the milk belongs to the state. It's an apt analogy; you are nothing but a manager, a caretaker, in a Fascist economic system.

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