Are you kidding me Obama?
I am all for everyone having a chance and everyone getting an equal opportunity but wealth redistribution is not the way to do it! Give someone an EQUAL opportunity to succeed and then let them go. Do not punish one citizen's success because of the lack of success of another citizen. The more you give to the less fortunate the more you cut their legs off in this world. It is human nature to get lazier and less productive when everything is given to you. Once you get some help, you want more. When you get enough help, "Why work? The 1st of the month is around the corner.". Socialism, which is what Obama and Biden seem to be talking about, has been proven to be a failure, over and over throughout history!
"If you want an example of the failure of socialism," he said, "don't go to Russia, come to America and go to the Indian reservations." - Interior Secretary James G. Watt, January 19, 1983
The above quote is taken from an article written about what U.S. Interior Secretary, James Watts, had to say about the failure of socialism. Below is taken from another article about the failure of the socialist Indian Reservation plan.
"How are Indian reservations doomed to failure? The Indians own the land in common. No Indian owns land individually. Personal initiative is crushed."
The federal government provides, at a basic level, free medical coverage and schools on reservations. These services appear to be a good deal, but they have severely limited results in an atmosphere that discourages Indians from caring for themselves.I wrote a blog not too long ago where I did not use a foreign country as my example of the failure of socialism. I used the Indian Reservations in the United States! It was not the intention of the reservations but, it is a side effect, that we had a true test of how people will develop when the government strips away a people's purpose and then gives them everything and expects from them nothing. People lose their pride, their self-respect, and their work ethic!
Now take Barack Obama's connection to an organization that is accused of being a radical anti-capitalism and fraudulent organization ACORN. Obama says he was only their lawyer once. Nope, sorry, there is evidence that the relationship was much more than that. Obama's campaign donated $800,000 to an organization that is part of ACORN so they would, "get out the vote for him". Evidence has also come to light that Obama was a trainer for ACORN because he is listed on their employment rolls. Make no doubt about it, ACORN is accused by many for being a multi-faceted radical left wing organization with its hands in multiple pockets and Barack Obama seems to be tied to them in many, out in the open, ways.
Sol Stern explains that Acorn is the key modern successor of the radical 1960’s “New Left,” with a “1960’s-bred agenda of anti-capitalism” to match. Acorn, says Stern, grew out of “one of the New Left’s silliest and most destructive groups, the National Welfare Rights Organization.”Karl Marx's ten point program to convert a Capitalist society to a Communist society:
- Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.(Mortgage takeovers? Think that is what this means? Maybe, maybe not. The government(bailout bill) is taking over the ownership of homes and land right now...)
- A heavy progressive or graduated income tax(We have HEAVY PROGRESSIVE federal and state income taxes up to almost 40%.)
- Abolition of all rights of inheritance.(Death tax? We have one of those and Obama wants to raise it!)
- Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
- Centralization of credit in the hands of the State by means of a national bank with the State holding an exclusive monopoly on capital.(Sound familiar?)
- Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.(The FCC? Amtrak, subsidized right? And we are subsidizing failing airlines, right?)
- Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State(Banks? AIG? GM? We are doing this right now, right?); the bringing into cultivation of waste-land, and the improvement of the soil, generally in accordance with a common plan.
- Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
- Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by more equable distribution of the population over the country.
- Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.
Am I saying Obama is a communist? No. Am I saying Obama is a socialist? No, but he and Biden are flirting with it in my opinion. What I am saying is that this country is going down a slippery slope towards Socialism/Communism. Karl Marx said that Capitalism is one of the stages, the last stage, a society must go through before it gets to the ideal society which would be Communism. He also said that Capitalism would build up wealth in a country which would ease the transition to Communism and that this transition would be started when the inevitable recessions and depressions, that come with a free market, strike enough fear and anger into the proletariat(main street to us). What are we doing right now? We are afraid because our economy is on a down swing, which it is suppose to do...it is a cycle, and now we are giving up our Capitalist values for Socialism/Communism in an overreaction brought on by fear. There is a hypothesis that Communism did not work in the U.S.S.R. because they never had a Capitalism phase like Marx suggests. Because of this hypothesis it is theorized that the United States is the last, best, chance for Communism to take hold and to succeed!!!! Does anyone else see the same things I do?!?
2 comments:
Marxism is a historical lens, not an economic philosophy or a political plan. As such, Marx has no ten step plan to conversion. Indeed according to Marx there is no ten step plan to conversion. Communism (different from Marxism) according to Marx arises as a historical result of capitalism run amok. Notice in Obama's remarks he does not argue that as a matter of social justice that wealth ought to be redistributed, or that we ought to overthrow capitalist principles, but rather that we need policies which drive the economic engine of the society, which he sees as the middle class. In this philosophy trickle down doesn't work.
The problem with labeling Obama, or almost any mainstream American politician, a communist a socialist or a Marxist is it obscures the issues at stake and prevents us from having a more meaningful discussion. Calling someone a Marxist or a Communist shuts down the discussion rather than leads us to a nuanced discussion of what the economic policies are.
Clearly both candidates, and all but the most extreme in either party are for managed capitalism. That is both McCain and Obama believe that the government ought to intervene in the market on certain occasions because an unchecked market (capitalism run amok) is a bad thing. Each candidate just draws those lines in a different place. For example McCain would not argue that we should overturn anti-trust laws, or that we should allow children to work at age 6, or that we shouldn't have a minimum wage, or that we shouldn't require companies to seek proof of citizenship before hiring a worker. All of these are market interventions. Now on the whole Obama argues for greater market intervention than McCain (McCain believes in deregulation Obama believes in reregulation), but Obama believes we should make these interventions not out of some desire to overthrow capitalism, but rather out of a desire to promote a healthy and fair market. In this regard Obama is clearly a Keynesian, not a socialist or a Marxist.
Think of it this way the market is a game, politicians are the referees. Few people would argue that we want a game with no referees, a free for all. Instead what we are arguing about is how many rules there should be, and when should the government step in. Clearly there are arguments to be made on both sides, some for ideological reasons others for economic policy reasons.
This is a really important debate/discussion to have made ever the more crucial by the current economic crisis. But, having this debate while half the participants are calling the other half socialist and communists really gets in the way of anything meaningful happening. So let's drop the stupid narrative of is Obama a Marxist/Socialist/Communist (one would have thought this meme would have ended in the cold war) and instead have serious discussions about economic policy. (And in turn I promise to stop calling conservatives fascists.)
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