Am 21 Dec 16  19:33:15 schrob Mike Miller an All  zum Thema 


MM> This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity 
[...]
MM> I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety 
MM> Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads
[...] 

You've never talked to someone who managed to escape from socialism, have you?
First of all, in a socialist country, you don't need an electric alarm clock, a
mechanic one will be good enough for you. It will last longer and thus save
valuable resources. No electric alarm clocks would be manufactured in the state
combine of clock and machine manufacturing and importing them would nearly be
impossible, because noone wanted your currency and the treason of using
non-socialist alarm clocks will be punished. So you forgot to wind up the alarm
clock and get up late. Then you don't get in your car, because you ordered it
about 12 years ago and it still hasn't been build yet. Instead you take your
bicycle and notice the flat tire because someone stole your valve. Then you
steal someone else's because there are no shops selling spare parts. You get to
work late, but your boss doesn't care, since they run out of raw materials,
anyways. In order to achieve the planned production target of x screws set by
the government, your boss decides to manufacture smaller ones, so the material
will suffice if it arrives one day. If it doesn't, he will just report larger
output numbers, since noone will count them anyways. Since there's no work for
you to do, you walk to the baker's shop, but it's closed. They already sold
their last bread two days ago and ran out of flour. Then you go to the grocery
store, walk through the empty isles and finally ask the shopkeeper if he has
anything for sale and he tells you that all he has is a truck full of
radiators, but he will not trade them in for the screws you stole at work. Then
you get back to work and police is already waiting for you, not because you've
been stealing stuff at work for years, but beacause your kid in kindergarten
was asked whether the clock on the news had dots or lines next to the numbers
and gave the wrong answer which proved that you watched capitalist news.

MM> And then I logged on to the internet,

In East Germany in 1990 only six percent of all households had telephone and
owning a copier was subject to government approval. Such devices could be used
to spread anti-socialist propaganda!




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Gerhard
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