Comments by "gary K" (@garyK.45ACP) on "'Where Would A Person Even Come Up With These Ideas?' Toomey Points To Soviet Upbringing Of Nominee" video.

  1. My wife, who was born and raised in the Soviet Union, educated in the Soviet Union, is as strong a US Citizen patriot as one could imagine and objects to ANY infringement in her right to free speech, privacy, firearms ownership, and private property rights. All of the things she was not allowed to have in the USSR. Nor as a naturalized citizen immigrant does she have ANY sympathy for illegal aliens who simply want a "path to citizenship" without the process immigrants go through. Most of our acquaintances who are former Soviet citizens are the same. This woman must have been from a family of a party member who had all the privileges. There ARE people who regret the end of the USSR. This woman would be equally repulsive in her former country. The vast majority of people raised in the communist system are VERY strong capitalists. By far, most of them are the hardest working, most respectful Americans you will ever find. The statements this woman makes are typical communist party tripe. She is speaking exactly the BS she was indoctrinated with and her Party member parents had a privileged life. Most people had a miserable life. Yes, they had free education...in the subject the state chose for you. Everyone had a job...in the career the state chose for you. Everyone had a home...that the state chose for you. Everyone got a vacation...in the place the state chose for you. They had little chance to "fail". And NO chance to succeed. A factory worker lived in the same apartment as a doctor. If the factory worker had more children, they got a larger apartment than the doctor. Same crappy quality, but a few square meters larger. There was no incentive to work harder, produce more, produce better, innovate. Yes, men and women each got the same crappy pay for the same crappy job. Everywhere in the country. Moscow or Kiev. Same job, same pay. Didn't matter, because you couldn't move anywhere you wanted to anyway. Women, for example, were expected to live with their parents until they got married. Yes, they had paid maternity leave and payments from the government for each child they had. Why? Because 22 million citizens had been killed in World War 2 and they needed to repopulate the country with workers! 25% of the men had been killed! Nearly 50% of "marriage age" men (18-45) in countries like Belarus and Ukraine had been killed. If there were 250,000 Cubans, Czechs, Poles, Ukrainians, Slovenes, Russians and Hungarians crossing the border every month, the Democrats would be on the border piling up rocks with their bare hands to keep them out!
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