Author: David Brenner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781695671157
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 101
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LARGE PRINT EDITION Overview: When Hattie and Eunice and their hen sisters learn that the state Revenue Collector is confiscating more and more of their tasty eggs, they strut into action. Their beloved farmer, Peter, no longer has enough eggs to share with the needy widow and orphans he's befriended. But these are no ordinary poultry. They have an ingenious plan to save Peter and his widow and orphan friends. But can mere chickens out-smart a tax man? The Un-Socialist Chickens shows how democratic socialism erodes initiative, productivity, and social cohesion, thus impoverishing people and nations. Plot Summary: The chickens on Peter's prosperous farm love life, thanks to Peter's gentle ways and rich feed. A compassionate and generous man, he shares his farm's produce with an elderly widow and the village orphanage. Peter fully accepts the government's new plan to take half his produce to provide for the country's needy citizens, and he is unfailingly kind to the government revenue collector. The rest of the villagers, as well as Peter's chickens, aren't as understanding, especially when they discover the government is wasteful with the taxes they pay. Many of the villagers begin to avoid paying taxes by hiding their produce or simply working less, since working harder isn't rewarded. As a result, tax revenues begin to shrink. The government's solution is to raise taxes, but that only reduces revenues further. As revenues dry up, there are no resources left over to give to the poor, who have come to depend on the government. Moreover, farmers like Peter no longer have anything extra to share, and Peter's village friends -- the widow and orphans -- are now truly in want. So Peter's chickens hatch a plan to help both their beloved farmer and his friends. With ingenuity and craftiness, they circumvent the revenue collector and provide enough eggs to meet the needs of Peter's friends through the coming harsh winter. In the process, the revenue collector gets a painful comeuppance that will make him sick at the mere sight of eggs for a long time. Young adults, teens, and pre-teens will have a birds-eye view of socialism's fundamental flaws, as they cheer for the Un-Socialist Chicken's plucky campaign against the greedy revenue collector.
Author: David Culver Brenner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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When Hattie and Eunice and their hen sisters learn that the state Revenue Collector is confiscating more and more of their tasty eggs, they strut into action. Their beloved farmer, Peter, no longer has enough eggs to share with the needy widow and orphans he's befriended. But these are no ordinary poultry. They have an ingenious plan to save Peter and his widow and orphan friends. But can mere chickens out-smart a tax man? The Un-Socialist Chickens shows how democratic socialism erodes initiative, productivity, and social cohesion, thus impoverishing people and nations.Includes Chapter Study Questions and Six Essays on Understanding Socialism: *The Inescapable Law of Human Existence that Socialists Just Don't Get *God or Government? *Sphere Sovereignty and the Unique Challenges Faced by Christians in a Democracy *Is Jesus a Wealth Redistributor or a Supply-Sider? *The Avariciousness of Government *The Holy Grail of Scandinavian SocialismPlot Summary: The chickens on Peter's prosperous farm love life, thanks to Peter's gentle ways and rich feed. A compassionate and generous man, he shares his farm's produce with an elderly widow and the village orphanage. Peter fully accepts the government's new plan to take half his produce to provide for the country's needy citizens, and he is unfailingly kind to the government revenue collector. The rest of the villagers, as well as Peter's chickens, aren't as understanding, especially when they discover the government is wasteful with the taxes they pay. Many of the villagers begin to avoid paying taxes by hiding their produce or simply working less, since working harder isn't rewarded. As a result, tax revenues begin to shrink. The government's solution is to raise taxes, but that only reduces revenues further. As revenues dry up, there are no resources left over to give to the poor, who have come to depend on the government. Moreover, farmers like Peter no longer have anything extra to share, and Peter's village friends -- the widow and orphans -- are now truly in want. So, Peter's chickens hatch a plan to help both their beloved farmer and his friends. With ingenuity and craftiness, they circumvent the revenue collector and provide enough eggs to meet the needs of Peter's friends through the coming harsh winter. In the process, the revenue collector gets a painful comeuppance that will make him sick at the mere sight of eggs for a long time. Young adults, teens, and pre-teens will have a birds-eye view of socialism's fundamental flaws, as they cheer for the Un-Socialist Chicken's plucky campaign against the greedy revenue collector.
Author: Vern Duane Porter
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1441576762
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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Let me take you back in time to simpler days when my fourth great-grandfather ran around with Daniel Boone. Some of your stereotypes may be challenged when I describe an orphaned Indian boy brought to my fifth great-grandfather by Chief Logan at the boys request so that he could be raised by whites in order to become a minister of the gospel. You will learn much about early 1900s farm life. My wifes stepfather was from the mining country in the Idaho panhandle, so I will take you deep down below the surface looking for the ore body. Some of my relatives worked in the open-pit iron mines of northern Minnesota, so they will get some attention. After we had moved to California, we eventually bought a small house on a large enough lot to have a few chickens. When Mom wanted to have fried chicken ready for supper when Dad got home, it was up to me to chop its head off and, with Moms help, pluck it. Thus I learned that someone has to pluck the chicken, and I grew up with a respect for the country work ethic and the ingenuity of the American farmer. My exposure to the diverse cultures of Minnesota farmland and suburban California presented me with a view of the winds of cultural change blowing across the country, which were bringing a demand for lowering standards of behavior and the lessening of punishment. My comments on the source and susceptibility to the push for change are accompanied by anecdotes from history, and the lives of relatives and my own life experiences. I was in the Deep South during the Reverend Kings marches for civil rights. When the antiwar crowd was breaking windows on the first floor of the chancellors office at UC Berkeley, I was on the second floor servicing a mimeograph machine. The time I spent on high school and grade school campuses opened my eyes to the flow of changing standards in our culture. There will be an effort to describe the pivotal changes in my life and destiny, which I believe came about as the result of prayer, the importance of the Southern Baptist Church in my teenage years, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as I became an independent adult. I will also describe the events that led to my leaving the LDS church for twenty-five years and why I came back recently. The challenges of raising a family in a home divided on religious belief will also be covered. On the job, I dared to stand up for the rights of those I supervised to take their breaks. At another company I worked for, I took a stand against corporate greed. It cost me in promotions and raises and eventually resulted in AmeriGas refusing to recognize the Americans with Disabilities Act for me. Rather than sue them, I decided to leave with a two-year disability and have the California Department of Rehabilitation upgrade my clerical skills so I could get a desk job. The promoters of compassion in this country have succeeded in creating so many categories of disability that it was nearly impossible for this middle-aged white guy to get an entry-level desk job with the State of California. The worsening of my disability and my efforts to overcome it with alternative therapies will be covered in my chapter on health. Its just as well that I wanted to work in spite of my disability. My two-year disability policy required me to apply for a Social Security disability (SSI), so I went to be examined by their doctor. When I walked into the crowded waiting room, I was ushered right in to see the doctor. He explained that the people in the waiting room had to wait for an interpreter, so for that reason alone, they would qualify for SSI. Since I was able to walk in, I would not qualify. I believe in climate change, but it was around long before humankind was here to influence the weather. Over a century ago, at least one scientist determined through an experiment that the concentration of CO2 was already past the point where adding more would increase global warming. The global w
Author: Morris Hillquit
Publisher:
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Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Author: Kenneth Kann
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801480751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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This book is a portrait of the Petaluma Jewish community from the early years of the century to the present day. Kenneth L. Kann interviewed more than two hundred residents, representing three generations of Jewish Americans. The picture that emerges from their testimony is of a wonderfully animated and fractious community. Its history blends many of the familiar themes of American Jewish life into a richly individual tapestry. In the first few decades of this century, many Jewish immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe wound up in Petaluma. This first generation of chicken farmers consisted largely of educated, often professional men and women; many were drawn to chicken farming as much by Marxist or Zionist beliefs in the dignity of labor as by economic necessity. They helped establish the particular character of a community, with its combination of arduous work and cultural aspiration.
Author: Anastasia Lakhtikova
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025304099X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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This essay anthology explores the intersection of gender, food and culture in post-1960s Soviet life from personal cookbooks to gulag survival. Seasoned Socialism considers the relationship between gender and food in late Soviet daily life, specifically between 1964 and 1985. Political and economic conditions heavily influenced Soviet life and foodways during this period and an exploration of Soviet women’s central role in the daily sustenance for their families as well as the obstacles they faced on this quest offers new insights into intergenerational and inter-gender power dynamics of that time. Seasoned Socialism considers gender construction and performance across a wide array of primary sources, including poetry, fiction, film, women’s journals, oral histories, and interviews. This collection provides fresh insight into how the Soviet government sought to influence both what citizens ate and how they thought about food.
Author: Mark Selden
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317239466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
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First published in 1982. The dramatic changes in policy and theory following the death of Chairman Mao in 1976 and the publication of the most extensive official and unofficial data on the Chinese economy and society in twenty years both necessitated and made possible a thorough reconsideration of the full range of issues pertaining to the political and economic trajectory of the People’s Republic in its first three decades. The contributors to this volume initiated a comprehensive effort to address fundamental problems of China’s socialist development and to reassess earlier perspectives and conclusions.
Author: Troy Vettese
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1804290386
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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"Empowers readers to write their own recipes for a future in peril: an exercise in democracy few books have dared to undertake." –Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline A plan to save the earth and bring the good life to all In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of capitalism and the left alike and propose a radical plan to address climate disaster and guarantee the good life for all. Consumption in the Global North can’t continue unabated, and we must give up the idea that humans can fully control the Earth through technological “fixes” which only wreak further havoc. Rather than allow the forces of the free market to destroy the planet, we must strive for a post-capitalist society able to guarantee the good life the entire planet. This plan, which they call Half-Earth Socialism, means we must: • rewild half the Earth to absorb carbon emissions and restore biodiversity • pursue a rapid transition to renewable energy, paired with drastic cuts in consumption by the world’s wealthiest populations • enact global veganism to cut down on energy and land use • inaugurate worldwide socialist planning to efficiently and equitably manage production • welcome the participation of everyone—even you! Accompanied by a climate-modelling website inviting readers to design their own “half earth,” Vettese and Pendergrass offer us a visionary way forward—and our only hope for a future.
Author: Briton Hadden
Publisher:
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Author: Kyle Grant Wilkison
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603444130
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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As the nineteenth century ended in Hunt County, Texas, a way of life was dying. The tightly knit, fiercely independent society of the yeomen farmers--"plain folk," as historians have often dubbed them--was being swallowed up by the rising tide of a rapidly changing, cotton-based economy. A social network based on family, religion, and community was falling prey to crippling debt and resulting loss of land ownership. For many of the rural people of Hunt County and similar places, it seemed like the end of the world. In Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists historian Kyle G. Wilkison analyzes the patterns of plain-folk life and the changes that occurred during the critical four decades spanning the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Political protest evolved in the wake of the devastating losses experienced by the poor rural majority, and Wilkison carefully explores the interplay of religion and politics as Greenbackers, Populists, and Socialists vied for the support of the dispossessed tenant farmers and sharecroppers. With its richly drawn contextualization and analysis of the causes and effects of the epochal shifts in plain-folk society, Kyle G. Wilkison's Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists will reward students and scholars in economic, regional, and agricultural history.
