Dan McLeod: Welcoming our young people to the new gulag

I am sure the current graduates of our left-leaning universities have not received an accurate education related to the Marxist/Communist labor practices of the old Soviet Union. In it’s most simple terms, the labor force worked for the betterment of the “whole.” The fruits of an individual’s labor were considered property of the state. People were paid based on amounts set by the government. The price of food and essentials were fixed and always in short supply.

In modern, America student loans are approaching $1 trillion. These very same students are already saddled with over $18 trillion in national debt. Our future generations will have the fruits of their work taxed, levied and taken to pay these debts. It is an inevitable fact. With 21 million Americans already employed in some way by government, and considering the burdens which will necessarily be placed on the private sector, it will not be long before we will be no better off than our poor old comrades who struggled under the Soviet yoke for so many decades.

This story was originally published January 12, 2015 at 11:53 AM with the headline "Dan McLeod: Welcoming our young people to the new gulag."