merrie says: Following this discredited Marxist model, he believes government must step in and redistribute pieces of the pie. That requires massive transfers of wealth through government taxing and spending, a return to the entitlement days of old. Of course, Obama is too smart to try to smuggle such hoary collectivist garbage through the front door. He's disguising the wealth transfers as "investments" — "to make America more competitive," he says, or "that give us a fighting chance," whatever that means. Among his proposed "investments": • "Universal," "guaranteed" health care. • "Free" college tuition. • "Universal national service" (a la Havana). • "Universal 401(k)s" (in which the government would match contributions made by "low- and moderate-income families"). • "Free" job training (even for criminals). • "Wage insurance" (to supplement dislocated union workers' old income levels). • "Free" child care and "universal" preschool. • More subsidized public housing. . . . . . • A fatter earned income tax credit for "working poor." • And even a Global Poverty Act that amounts to a Marshall Plan for the Third World, first and foremost Africa. His new New Deal also guarantees a "living wage," with a $10 minimum wage indexed to inflation; and "fair trade" and "fair labor practices," with breaks for "patriot employers" who cow-tow to unions, and sticks for "nonpatriot" companies that don't. That's just for starters — first-term stuff. Obama doesn't stop with socialized health care. He wants to socialize your entire human resources department — from payrolls to pensions. His social-microengineering even extends to mandating all employers provide seven pai... . . . . After college, where he palled around with Marxist professors and took in socialist conferences "for inspiration," Obama followed in Davis' footsteps, becoming a "community organizer" in Chicago. His boss there was Gerald Kellman, whose identity Obama also tries to hide in his book. Turns out Kellman's a disciple of the late Saul "The Red" Alinsky, a hard-boiled Chicago socialist who wrote the "Rules for Radicals" and agitated for social revolution in America. After three years agitating with marginal success for more welfare programs in South Side Chicago, Obama decided he would need to study law to "bring about real change" — on a large scale. While at Harvard Law School, he sti... go facism! mccain/stalin 08! oh shiznitz obama is gonna be mean to rich people! Stealth? About as stealthy as a rhino horn up the backside I think we need to give a lesson or at least post a primer on what Socialism/fascism is and isn't. Please! The US could use some socialism. If it is stealth or somewhat hidden from view, then why could you see it so clearly? Are you a mystic, a soothsayer, someone with second sight. Do you read tarot, tea leaves, or what? Are you one of those right wing hippies from Manchester, NH. Just kidding - wish you could get beyond the paranoia of the right wing of everything. Have a nice day! ;> Dear Merrie, Obama is not a committed hardcore socialist.I went to school with him at Columbia College where socialism and even communism were fads in the 1970s and the 1980s.And so, while his comments are laced with socialist expressions they do not really represent who he is.Obama is a middle of the road left-center pragmatist who will try multiple ideas and tactics until he finds one which works.Those who wish to see a revolution will be very disappointed.They will instead get an FDR New Deal Democrat who will save the capitalist state as FDR did in 1933. Finally, evenif he was a socialist the[b]... |
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