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Monday, October 27, 2008

What If Obama Wins?

Are we really going to do this, folks?

Are we really going to elect our first socialist president, and support him with a filibuster-proof 60-40 majority in the Senate and a huge majority in the House?

Let's start with the definition of socialism.
socialism
An economic system in which the production and distribution of goods are controlled substantially by the government rather than by private enterprise, and in which cooperation rather than competition guides economic activity. There are many varieties of socialism. Some socialists tolerate capitalism, as long as the government maintains the dominant influence over the economy; others insist on an abolition of private enterprise.
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition

Obama has "written" two books, Dreams of My Father and Audacity of Hope, in which he describes his socialist dreams for America (I put "written" in quotes because leftist terrorist Bill Ayers wrote half of one of those books).

His campaign website describes his socialist dreams for America.
http://www.barackobama.com/index.php
The website clearly states that he wants to "Cut taxes for 95 percent of workers and their families with a tax cut of $500 for workers or $1,000 for working couples." But how can he cut taxes on the 40% or so of families who do not pay taxes? He has to give them a rebate (buying votes). Where does the rebate come from? Those who need to have their wealth redistributed. According to whom? Him!

I found this page to be very interesting.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/service/
He uses this wonderful phrase: "universal voluntary service." Translation: compulsory unpaid work, the ultimate unfunded mandate.

I predict that if Obama gets elected, we will see worse times and harsher erosions of liberty than during the early Clinton years, the Carter years, and perhaps FDR's Great Depression.

2 Comments:

At 2:25 PM, Blogger Diane L said...

If the current system is so great why do 84.6 people [from RealClear Politics site] feel the country is moving in the wrong direction and only 9.8 the right direction? And why did old, well-established financial institutions like Lehman Bros fail?

Perhaps this is all part of a long term cycle and we will eventually end up somewhere back towards the center once more. You know, "moderation in all things including moderation" . . . :-)

 
At 3:44 PM, Blogger Pedicularis said...

I can answer the first question. About 40% of Americans think the country is moving too far to the right, and about 40% of Americans think the country is moving too far to the left.

Those financial institutions failed because they screwed up. They took huge risks with their investments. Over the next few months, look for good news articles explaining exactly why they failed. BTW, it will take some digging to find those news articles, because the mainstream news media is going to blame it on Bush and leave it at that.

You bet there are cycles. This could be like 1992, and two years later the Republicans got control of Congress. Or it could be like 1976, and four years later the Republicans won the White House. I hope it is not like 1932. :(

 

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