What Did We Win ?

I had a brief discussion about the current Pope with someone who was discussing the involvement he had as a child in the Hitler youth, which made me think of what National Socialism really was. At it's heart it was an economic order that was not Communism, nor a Free Market, rather it was indeed a planned economy, but it was a system to plan people and the economy. Why is that relevant to today in the United States ? Or rather how ?
                           Let's look at some Fundamental parts of the National Socialists programs:


11. Abolition of unearned (work and labour) incomes. Breaking of rent-slavery


15. We demand an expansion on a large scale of old age welfare.

20. The state is to be responsible for a fundamental reconstruction of our whole national education program,


21. The State is to care for the elevating national health by protecting the mother and child, by outlawing child-labor, by the encouragement of physical fitness, by means of the legal establishment of a gymnastic and sport obligation, by the utmost support of all organizations concerned with the physical instruction of the young


There are a total of 25 points that were presented these points listed are now common practice here in the United States, Our Social Security System was modeled after the German system, Our National Highway system was modeled after the Autobahn, the idea of relief for Single Mothers came from the Socialist System. The comparisons are endless, the point is that we have adopted a full scale system of government controls over our lives and property. If you do not think so try smoking a cigarette in a Bar in Michigan. Not only are the property rights violated of the owner of the establishment, but the Sovereign right of the individual who practices such a habit are violated. This can only happen in a society that has a system of rights " granted " by a Central Authority, rather than a decentralized system, where the government is designed to protect the rights of it's citizens.
                                                      I have often reflected on the horror that stemmed from that horrible conflict, but in retrospect we have lost our values, the values that cherish the rights of an individual, rather than subjugating those rights to a Centralized authority, which begs the question then ..... What then did we really win ?


                                                               If the United States had maintained it's values of individual Sovereignty of it's citizens and had insisted that " The Rights of Man " were the guiding factor of governance, than this country would still be the foundation of " A World of Liberty "


For further reading check out these links:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Program_of_the_NSDAP


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Program

http://www.fff.org/freedom/0498a.asp