Barack Obama’s Stealth Socialism (Not really so stealthy)
I’ve been pondering for a while why more people aren’t worried about Obama’s desire to lead us into socialism, and I think I’ve finally figured it out. They’re not worried because they DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT SOCIALISM IS!!! Because our public school system doesn’t really teach it anymore and the liberals don’t want it mentioned, we have a lot of younger people who just don’t know what it is or what harm it can cause. Sad that this could possibly be true, but I think it is. How can we stop something that people don’t even understand????? It’s very frustrating! For the record I’ll say it one more time: OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST!!!!
Barack Obama’s Stealth Socialism
Before friendly audiences, Barack Obama speaks passionately about something called “economic justice.” He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code – socialist code.
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Excerpt:
During his NAACP speech earlier this month, Sen. Obama repeated the term at least four times. “I’ve been working my entire adult life to help build an America where economic justice is being served,” he said at the group’s 99th annual convention in Cincinnati.
And as president, “we’ll ensure that economic justice is served,” he asserted. “That’s what this election is about.” Obama never spelled out the meaning of the term, but he didn’t have to. His audience knew what he meant, judging from its thumping approval.
It’s the rest of the public that remains in the dark, which is why we’re launching this special educational series.
“Economic justice” simply means punishing the successful and redistributing their wealth by government fiat. It’s a euphemism for socialism.
In the past, such rhetoric was just that – rhetoric. But Obama’s positioning himself with alarming stealth to put that rhetoric into action on a scale not seen since the birth of the welfare state.
In his latest memoir he shares that he’d like to “recast” the welfare net that FDR and LBJ cast while rolling back what he derisively calls the “winner-take-all” market economy that Ronald Reagan reignited (with record gains in living standards for all).
Obama also talks about “restoring fairness to the economy,” code for soaking the “rich” – a segment of society he fails to understand that includes mom-and-pop businesses filing individual tax returns.
It’s clear from a close reading of his two books that he’s a firm believer in class envy. He assumes the economy is a fixed pie, whereby the successful only get rich at the expense of the poor.
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.
*snip*
The seeds of his far-left ideology were planted in his formative years as a teenager in Hawaii – and they were far more radical than any biography or profile in the media has portrayed.
A careful reading of Obama’s first memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” reveals that his childhood mentor up to age 18 – a man he cryptically refers to as “Frank” – was none other than the late communist Frank Marshall Davis, who fled Chicago after the FBI and Congress opened investigations into his “subversive,” “un-American activities.”
As Obama was preparing to head off to college, he sat at Davis’ feet in his Waikiki bungalow for nightly bull sessions. Davis plied his impressionable guest with liberal doses of whiskey and advice, including: Never trust the white establishment.
“They’ll train you so good,” he said, “you’ll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that sh**.”
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.
The Chicago-based Woods Fund provided Kellman with his original $25,000 to hire Obama. In turn, Obama would later serve on the Woods board with terrorist Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground. Ayers was one of Obama’s early political supporters.
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A perfect storm of statism is forming, and our economic freedoms are at serious risk.
LINK: http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=302137342405551#
Don't Get Me Started... 
Trust in God.
Its true, Man can’t do it with Government”, only
with God. Look at Obama’s past, is it God he
worships or is it…
Utley
October 5, 2008
I was an Obama supporter up until the minute I cast my ballot. As I went to place my mark by his name I was suddenly filled with dread that when judgement day comes I will have to account for why I supported the slaughter of many unborn children and a person who does not even worship the same God that I do. I voted for McCain and hope others will do the same.
Amanda
November 4, 2008
I have to agree with you about this. The sad part is that the American youth are such staunch supporters of a man whom they know so little about. The real world is considerably different than the fairy tale world that colleges would lead them to believe. It’s a painful situation to think about. What kind of message is being sent to us? That if at first you don’t succeed don’t worry about it because papa Obama will punish those who did? That setting our nation back decades is the only way to ensure a future? My parents have been working hard for their whole lives to earn an honest and comfortable living (which they achieved through perseverance and a can-do attitude). How can anyone even THINK it’s fair that they should have to bear the dead weight of a failing demographic simply because they lacked the same initiative? The misguided children of a once great nation have spoken, I guess.
Betrayed
November 5, 2008
if you call socialism, to what obama is doing, related to universal health care, education etc, then let it be, because just look to what we have become in the last 8 years…….
miguel
March 1, 2009