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During the 2008 campaign, a lot of people, me included, suggested Obama had a socialist agenda. The other side poo-poo’d the thought without giving any hint as to why it should be poo-poo’d, you just weren’t allowed to say that. However, within the first 100 days, which a lot of people seem to think are important, the agenda in DC has been dominated by two issues:
- Capitalism is bad. Private industry is under attack right now as Congress investigates the banks it gave TARP funds to. The committee members are not satisfied with what the banks did with the no-strings-attached money they gave the banks a few months ago. Now they want to add strings. A couple of the banks are more than willing to give the money back. The committee is saying no, they have to keep it, and they have to distribute it to the poor. Sounds like socialism to me.
- Big government is good. I don’t mean government in the general sense, which a lot of people do, but “big” government, as in the feds only. For instance, the money allocated for education won’t go to states to distribute as they see fit, it will be aministered through Title I. That’s the federal program. One entity running everything is socialism.
And, if you want to toss in some Big Brother conceptualization, Ben Nelson calls this the ‘jobs squad’. However, although this “jobs squad” might be putting some cash in some people’s pockets, the only goal those people will have is milking the government for even more. That’s not capitalism. That’s not what got us to the point we’re at today. What people need to remember is capitalism got us to the point today where even the economic situation that Obama and his cronies are saying is so dire that we should abandon free market principals, it is still the most powerful economy in the history of mankind. It needs some tinkering. However, if you look at all the socialist economies of the past, they have never gotten to the point where our economy is right now even the in the midst of this “economic catastrophe”. The ones that thriving right now, like China, are doing so by incorporating capitolist ideas into their economy. Obama, ignoring 2,000 years of history, is doing the opposite. And, what he is also doing is completely ignoring the fact that is was undue regulations with socialist agendas that caused the meltdown in the first place.
I think the signal coming from The White House is crystal clear and dangerous as hell.
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