Communism leads to poverty, duh!

The communists took my grandmother’s farm. Before it was co-opted, it produced wine for sale, plus fruit, vegetables, and meat for the family and workers. The poor who wandered past got a meal and old clothes. The small wealth of sustenance was hard-won but shared.

It was a no-nonsense kind of life. The only nonsense was provided by my mother and her brother via their many shenanigans involving, pigs, horses, chickens, sheep and the occasional drunk goat. The only ones coming to harm in such amusements were the chief perpetrators themselves in the form of spankings from my grandmother. That is, until the communists came and took the farm.

Then all the animals were eaten, crops were pulled and the farm fell into disuse. No food, no jobs, no wine. Just land owned by ‘the people.’ Whoever said people can’t live on principle alone? Apparently communists can. Good thing too, since they weren’t interested in farming . . . .

So when people today say that Obama is a communist for wanting to spread the wealth, I have to wonder, do they know anything about communists apart from the propaganda itself?