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Defend America on Friday, December 11, 2009 8:21:28 AM
The New Socialism
by Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON -- In the 1970s and early '80s, having seized control of the
U.N. apparatus (by power of numbers), Third World countries decided to
cash in. OPEC was pulling off the greatest wealth transfer from rich to
poor in history. Why not them? So in grand U.N. declarations and
conferences, they began calling for a "New International Economic
Order." The NIEO's essential demand was simple: to transfer fantastic
chunks of wealth from the industrialized West to the Third World.
On what grounds? In the name of equality -- wealth redistribution
via global socialism -- with a dose of post-colonial reparations thrown
in.
The idea of essentially taxing hard-working citizens of the
democracies in order to fill the treasuries of Third World
kleptocracies went nowhere, thanks mainly to Ronald Reagan and Margaret
Thatcher (and the debt crisis of the early '80s). They put a stake
through the enterprise.
But such dreams never die. The raid on the Western treasuries
is on again, but today with a new rationale to fit current ideological
fashion. With socialism dead, the gigantic heist is now proposed as a
sacred service of the newest religion: environmentalism.
http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/12/11/the_new_socialism