Sound Familiar?????

[TC]

This Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don't Let Freedom Slip Away

By: Kitty Werthmann

What I am about to tell you is something you've probably never heard or will ever read in history books.
I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide - 98% of the vote.. I've never read that in any American publications.
Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.
In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed.. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates.

Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food.. Not that they didn't want to work; there simply weren't any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need.. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people - about 30 daily.

The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna , Linz , and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted..

We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany , where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn't have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group -- Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria . We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler.

We were overjoyed, and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed.

After the election, German officials were appointed, and like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service.

Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn't support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up for marriage.

Hitler Targets Education - Eliminates Religious Instruction for Children:

Our education was nationalized.. I attended a very good public school.. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler's picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn't pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang "Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles," and had physical education.

Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail. The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it.. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free. We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had.

My mother was very unhappy. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn't do that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun - no sports, and no political indoctrination. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler. It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn't exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.

Equal Rights Hits Home:

In 1939, the war started and a food bank was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn't work, you didn't get a ration card, and if you didn't have a card, you starved to death. Women who stayed home to raise their families didn't have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men.

Soon after this, the draft was implemented. It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps. During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat.

Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service.

Hitler Restructured the Family Through Daycare:
When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole generation of children.. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had.
Health Care and Small Business Suffer Under Government Controls:
Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna . After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.

As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families. All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing.

We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities.. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn't meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control.

We had consumer protection. We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the live-stock, then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.

"Mercy Killing" Redefined:

In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps . The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw Vincent and others getting into a van. I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness.

As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia.

The Final Steps - Gun Laws:

Next came gun registration.. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.

No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up.

Totalitarianism didn't come quickly, it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria . Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to

the last breath. Instead, we had creeping gradualism.

Now, our only weapons were broom handles. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little eroded our freedom.

After World War II, Russian troops occupied Austria . Women were raped, preteen to elderly. The press never wrote about this either. When the Soviets left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down whole orchards of fruit, and what they couldn't destroy, they burned. We called it The Burned Earth. Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for 6 weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn't, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna today, dedicated to those women who were massacred by the Russians. This is an eye witness account.

"It's true..those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.

America Truly is the Greatest Country in theWorld. Don't Let Freedom Slip Away,

"After America , There is No Place to Go"

[Newt]

At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn't work, you didn't get a ration card, and if you didn't have a card, you starved to death.
Rufus there is your compassion for the sick and poor.


Progressives no matter if they are in Germany, Hitler; The Soviet Union, Lenin; China, Mao; or Cambodia, Pol Pot have a solution to every problem.

No wonder our president has so many advisers that were never veted.
Remember the Obama Czar that said Mao was her greatest comfort.


It's scary how many things that Hitler did in a few years by force, that our government has done over the last fifty years with the consent of a willing electorate.

[Pine Mt Beagles]

THANK'S FOR THE POST'S
T.C--IT WAS VERY INFORMATIVE==I HAVE KNOW FOR MANY YEARS, THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WAS HEADING THE COUNTRY , TOWARD COMMUNISM: IT IS EVEN WORSE TODAY,THEY WANT TO TAKE AWAY, SOCIAL SECURITY,MEDICARE,CUT FUNDING TO OUR SCHOOLS,DON'T WANT HEALTH CARE, FOR OUR CITIZEN'S,GIVE TAX CUT'S TO BIG BUSINESS,(WHO DON'T MAKE JOB'S HERE) INSTEAD THEY CAN TAKE THEIR FACTORIES OVER SEA'S TO CHEAP LABOR,THEN GIVE THEM ANOTHER, BREAK WHEN THEY BRING THE GOOD'S BACK TAKING JOB'S AND BENEFIT'S FROM WORKERS,,,,TRYING TO IGNORE OUR ELECTORIAL PROCESS,,BY BOYCOTTING THE HOUSE AND SENATE,AND NOT DOING ANYTHING TO HELP THE COUNTRY,(AND TOLD THE PEOPLE FROM DAY ONE THAT THEY WOULD SEE THIS PRESIDENT FAIL)AND ARE TRYING TO MAKE GOOD ON THEIR THREAT,EVERY DAY,,IF THEY CAN GET" UNEMPLOYMENT" UP SOME MORE,STOP "SOCIAL SECURITY",AND "MEDICARE",KEEP GIVING TAX BREAK'S TO BIG BUSINESS AND TAKING FROM SMALL BUSINESS'S ,,,,,LIKE THEY ARE DOING NOW ==============AMERICA WILL START LOOKING MORE AND MORE LIKE =====AUSTRIA=====

[bluemouse]

Told yall, you can not fix stupid!!!!!!!!

[bluegrass]

Told yall, you can not fix stupid!!!!!!!!

Boy, ain't that the truth...Rufus is a CLASSIC EXAMPLE of what Hitler, Stalin and other Leftists call USEFUL IDIOTS. Rufus will be one of the guys turning in his neighbors when they dont comply with GOVERNMENT POLICIES. He is INCAPABLE of seeing the correlation between this outlined story and the progressive movement that his god follows.



Thank GOD we have elections coming up this fall...the beginning of the end for the progressive inroads made by Obambi and his merry band of idiots.


Rufus, will you cry when the democruds run scared? Will you hide when you have no icons left to idolize??


Obambi is nothing more than a failed experiment. One that will be rectified as soon as the polls open.


Tony

[Pine Mt Beagles]

BIG WORD'S
IF= I DO CRY I WILL,NOT FEEL BAD= YOU HAVE BEEN CRYING EVER SINCE ,YOUR, GOD, YOU ARE THANKING,LEFT OFFICE==AND YOU NUT'S TALK ABOUT FOLLOWER'S =YOU FOLLOW THESE DO NOTHING ==PHIL=O=BUSTERS=LIKE SHEEP KNOWING, THEY ARE COMPLTELY WORTHLESS =WOULD NOT GIVE YOU AIR IF YOU WERE IN A JUG,I LOVE WATCHING YOU CRY= COMPLAIN =BACK PEDDLE =TRYING TO DEFEND ======STUPID===OR WHAT YOU WOULD CALL ELECTED REPUBLICAN'S,,WHO LIE EVERY DAY ON CAMERIA=AND TO STUPID TO KNOW HEY YOU ARE ON CAMERIA==HIPPOCRACY=AT IT'S WORST==

[TC]

Rufus YOU are the PERFECT EXAMPLE of you Can lead a JACKASS to Water But you Caint make em Drink!!!!!!!
Just WHAT has this ADMINISTRATION Done FOR YOU???

I Think I might have you figured out!!!!!!!
You DONT BELIEVE ANYTHING just like to keep it Stirred up....AND Cannot be TAUGHT anything your mind is FULL of So much HATE you cannot see........Even when the Total Picture is Put right in Front of you.
I just hope and pray that there are not to many like you in this World or we are TRULY DOOMED..........

[Newt]

Don't be too rough on Rufus. He is just just copying the tactics of his role models VP Biden and Press Secretary Gibbs.

Despite the fact that Biden and Obama voted against the surge in Iraq which defeated the taliban, he is now claiming this administration has won the war. Despite the fact that Bush had made an agreement with Iraq and set the timetable to with draw troops from Iraq, Biden says they are full filling their promise to bring the troops home. They blame all the problems on Bush and then claim Bush's success.
Like Rufus, Gibbs has nothing of accomplishment by this administration to brag about so he continues with nonsensical diatribes to hide the obvious. Gibbs writes something on his hand to make jokes about Sarah Palin because it wastes time and keeps journalists from asking questions. He's making fun of Palin despite the fact that Gibbs sounds like a brain dead idiot at almost every press briefing. Maybe he should take notes.

[Pine Mt Beagles]

by TC on Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:30 pm

Rufus YOU are the PERFECT EXAMPLE of you Can lead a JACKASS to Water But you Caint make em Drink!!!!!!!
Just WHAT has this ADMINISTRATION Done FOR YOU???
===IT HAS SLOWED THE COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF OUR COUNTRY,FROM THE ECONOMY TO WAR'S AND IF THEY COULD GET THE REPUBLICAN= DO NOTHING'S= OUT THEY COULD FIX AT LEAST PART OF THEIR MESS,,

I Think I might have you figured out!!!!!!!
You DONT BELIEVE ANYTHING just like to keep it Stirred up....AND Cannot be TAUGHT anything your mind is FULL of So much HATE you cannot see........Even when the Total Picture is Put right in Front of you.
I just hope and pray that there are not to many like you in this World or we are TRULY DOOMED..........
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--Just the majority-of the country,who are tired of Politician's,on both sides.The total picture is in front of you, but you just refuse to see it.If you really believe,the, Tea bagger's, has your best interest in mind,or the interest of the country for that matter, then you might want to counsel, your self.As for hate in my heart,The only hate I have is for the Republican Party,not individual's,but the destruction of the last (8) years will take decades to over come,if ever,I believe to hate some =one= is just plain silly,because most of the time they want care anyway,So I don't believe in hate.But good luck with your spreading complete B.S.---
BECAUSE I WILL CALL YOU GUY'S, EVERY TIME YOU GET TO LIEING, ABOUT WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON,AND THAT IS EVERY TIME YOU POST SOME HIPPOCRIT B.S.=

[Rabbithoundjb]

You don't call anybody's hand, with what old information, the same slogans as I can hear on MSMBC any night. What a bunch of CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bluegrass]

Rufus YOU are the PERFECT EXAMPLE of you Can lead a JACKASS to Water But you Caint make em Drink!!!!!!!
Just WHAT has this ADMINISTRATION Done FOR YOU???
===IT HAS SLOWED THE COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF OUR COUNTRY,FROM THE ECONOMY TO WAR'S AND IF THEY COULD GET THE REPUBLICAN= DO NOTHING'S= OUT THEY COULD FIX AT LEAST PART OF THEIR MESS,,


Rufus you are a jackass. Your statement isnt even CLOSE to the truth, yet you actually believe it dont you?

Obambi has INCREASED unemployment, not FIXED it like you said.
Obambi has NOT stopped either of the wars he promised to stop. Yet you dont hold him accountable do you?

If anything he has HASTENED our demise with his outrageous and immoral spending. You talked pre election about the amounts that Bush spent, and I believe we could find agreement there since I was also against a lot of his spending. Yet you give a pass to the spendng that Obambi does because you are too stupid to see the argument against his explanation that you have to spend money to get out of a recession.

Lets see...in Rufus' house when money gets tight I suppose it works for you to just go to Wal Mart down in Middlesboro and write checks that you cannot cover. Thats what fixes YOUR economic woes doesnt it?


Idiocy at its finest on display with every post you enter.


Tony

[Pine Mt Beagles]

Rufus you are a jackass. Your statement isnt even CLOSE to the truth, yet you actually believe it dont you?

Obambi has INCREASED unemployment, not FIXED it like you said.
Obambi has NOT stopped either of the wars he promised to stop. Yet you dont hold him accountable do you?

if anything he has HASTENED our demise with his outrageous and immoral spending. You talked pre election about the amounts that Bush spent, and I believe we could find agreement there since I was also against a lot of his spending. Yet you give a pass to the spendng that Obambi does because you are too stupid to see the argument against his explanation that you have to spend money to get out of a recession.

Lets see...in Rufus' house when money gets tight I suppose it works for you to just go to Wal Mart down in Middlesboro and write checks that you cannot cover. Thats what fixes YOUR economic woes doesnt it?

Idiocy at its finest on display with every post you enter.
Tony

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BIG WORD'S===DESPITE YOUR ARROGANCE AND COMPLETE HIPPOCRACY==I WILL TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION,,THAT YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO COMPREHEND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE,AND TRY TO EXPLAIN IT ON YOUR LEVEL==========

=IT HAS SLOWED THE COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF OUR COUNTRY,FROM THE ECONOMY= TO THE WAR'S AND IF THEY COULD GET THE REPUBLICAN= DO NOTHING'S= OUT OF THE WAY, THEY COULD FIX AT LEAST PART OF THEIR MESS,,
=IT HAS BEEN PROVEN OVER AND OVER THE REPUBLICANS , MEAN TO STALL FORWARD PROGRESS FOR (4( FOUR YEARS.SETTING NEW RECORD'S,FOR DISGARCEFULL,DISREGARD,FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ELECTED THEM,,,
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SLOWED= DOES NOT MEAN STOP=IT MEANS SLOWED DOWN=
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=Obambi has INCREASED unemployment, not FIXED it like you said.====

I DID NOT SAY HE FIXED UNEMPLOYMENT HE JUST SLOWED IT DOWN SOME=
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=If anything he has HASTENED our demise with his outrageous and immoral spending.
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==OUR DEMISE WAS STARTED =8=YEARS AGO=AND ONLY A COMPLETE IDIOT= LIKE YOU WOULD EXPECT SOME ONE= THAT IS BEING HAM STRUNG BY A BUNCH OF DESERTERS=TO TURN =8=YEARS AROUND IN ONE YEAR=EDUCATED IDIOT=
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=Lets see...in Rufus' house when money gets tight I suppose it works for you to just go to Wal Mart down in Middlesboro and write checks that you cannot cover. Thats what fixes YOUR economic woes doesnt it?
=
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[Pine Mt Beagles]

Lets see...in Rufus' house when money gets tight I suppose it works for you to just go to Wal Mart down in Middlesboro and write checks that you cannot cover. Thats what fixes YOUR economic woes doesnt it?
=By Tony
==NOW TONY
.BUT =WHEN YOU ACUSE ME OF A CRIME SUCH AS WRITING CHECKS= THAT I COULD NOT COVER===I TAKE THAT PERSONAL.FOR YOU TO SAY SUCH A THING= AS THAT.I HAVE NO RESPECT FOR YOU AT ALL ==AND YES I KNOW YOU DON'T CARE=BUT= I THINK YOU ARE AN ARROGANT ASS= CONCEDED TO NO END=, SIMPLY PUT YOU ARE TRASH==UNFIT TO ASSOCIATE WITH DESCENT PEOPLE===AND FOR YOUR INFORMATION MOST PEOPLE THAT KNOW'S ME, WILL TELL YOU= I WILL GIVE YOU A= DOLLAR= BEFORE,, I WOULD TAKE ONE,AND I HAVE EARNED EVERY THING I HAVE ,THE VERY HARD WAY,AND I WON'T BE TALKED DOWN TO= BY A NO COUNT PUNK--!!!!!!-WHO THINKS HE IS BETTER THAN EVERY ONE....THANK YOU FOR SHOWING JUST WHAT KIND OF PERSON YOU !!REALLY!! ARE===========

[TC]

Hey RUFUS WHY is it a CRIME if YOU do it But it Aint When Obama Does?????????????
he Has Done NOTHIN But STEAL from the American People at every oportunity From his Education buy lying about His US Status to the Election to his Imposible Dreams Of making the US a Socialist republic..
birds of a feather I guess

[Pine Mt Beagles]

by TC on Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:26 pm

Hey RUFUS WHY is it a CRIME if YOU do it But it Aint When Obama Does?????????????
he Has Done NOTHIN But STEAL from the American People at every oportunity From his Education buy lying about His US Status to the Election to his Imposible Dreams Of making the US a Socialist republic..
birds of a feather I guess
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=T.C.
FIRST OFF I HAVE NEVER DID NO SUCH THING AND WOULD NOT=AND=THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA =OBAMA= DID NOT LIE ABOUT HIS EDUCATION=HE IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN=HE HAS NOT STOLE ANYTHING ONLY HELPED AMERICA UNLIKE .BUSH AND CHEENEY WHO KILLED THOUSANDS OF OUR MEN AND WOMEN ,BY CHANGING C.I.A.INFORMATION AND LIEING TO THE COUNTRY AND TO THE WORLD=THIS IS THE USUAL REPUBLICAN TACTICS,,IF ALL ELSE FAIL'S ATTACK A MAN'S CHARACTER...
=
=BIG WORD'S= MUST HAVE SOME EXPERANCE IN WRITING BAD CHECK'S,SO HE THINK'S EVERY ONE DOES IT.