Posted by My friend and fellow blogger Mitchell Langbert posted a link to a very candid and good article from National Review On-line summarizing the messiah-like effect the Obama campaign has on its followers. This is more dangerous than the normal political fans because it perpetrates a falsehood about a candidate who is, after all, human.
Personally, I am sure Obama is a nice man, and a good father and husband, but politically he encompasses an idealogue that is way out of the mainstream of most Americans, which National Review has pointed out (I strongly recommend you read it). Obama’s vision for America is quite different from the image that our founding fathers imagined.
In a capitalist society, there is an owner and a worker, that’s the hard truth. Without the owner’s capital, there can be no workers. That’s how things work in a capitalist society. If you take away the profits of the owner, the owner cannot in turn hire more workers or make purchases/investments that will further boost the economy.
How much more are we willing to take from Paul to give to Peter? We already have a progressive tax system, that takes more funds away from rich people, and no funds or little funds away from poor people. The rate right now for the wealthiest people in America is close to 60%. Yes, 60% of their income is taken away from them in the form of taxes. In fact, without these wealthy Americans, our country would be so poor it would look like a so-called third world nation.
Some progressives want you to believe that “spreading the wealth” is good for the nation, but that theory has failed time and time again in history. For instance, in Cuba today, the government has “spread the wealth” around so much to the point that everyone is not just poor, but utterly poor. If you do not believe me, see what other Cuban Americans are saying at The Real Cuba website. This is why Cuban Americans vote overwhelmingly for the anti-socialist or usually the Republican candidate because they have seen first hand how “spreading the wealth” has bankrupted the Cuban economy.
There is something unprecedented going on today in America. Obama gets a pass for everything. No one is scrutinizing his associations, his record, his past, his beliefs. I will just give you one example, Biden explains to an audience of campaign donors that Obama will be tested:
“Mark my words, it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here … we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
A couple of days later, Obama corrects Biden and says:
“I think that his core point was that the next administration is going to be tested regardless of who it is. Because of the fact that we have – the next administration is going to be inheriting a whole host of really big problems, and so the president is going to be tested. And the question is will the next president meet that test by moving America in a new direction by sending a clear signal to the rest of the world that we are no longer about bluster and unilateralism and ideology, but we’re about creating partnerships around the world to solve practical problems? That’s going to be the best way to meet that test. And I have confidence that we will be able to do so.”
Obviously, any person with half a brain understands that these two statements are very very different, but Obama gets a pass. The main stream media explains it away with “what Biden meant to say, or what Biden really meant.” This is absurd. Just like Mrs. Obama’s precise words that “for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country.” But, what she really meant, or what she wanted to say, but didn’t, is what gets reported and Michelle gets a pass. This is absurd as well.
Wake up people! Don’t act like dummies! The main stream media and academia are trying to pull the wool over your eyes because they think in their hearts that socialism is a good thing. The problem is that they are wrong. History has shown that socialism doesn’t build nations, people working for people do. That’s the American way, and that’s what our founding fathers envisioned.
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By Stacey Derbinshire on Oct 26, 2008
I am urging McCain supporters to go out and vote. What we have is a deliberate and concerted effort by the media and Obama to suppress Republican votes. We must also vote for GOP senators and congressmen – we can’t allow the radical left to take over our government. They will sign the Freedom of Choice Act which will take away all our pro life gains and tax our 401 (k) plan dollars before they even go into our plans! These are dangerous people. They will destroy our way of life.
By Alice L. on Oct 26, 2008
Thanks Stacey,
I’ve added your website to my blog roll.
By Raquel on Oct 26, 2008
Yes,there is something going on, and it is not good for America. The major media has let us down in getting out all the facts.
Get out the vote, volunteer to make calls, do everything you can to elect John McCain and all other pro-life candidates. Talk to your friends and to as many others as you can. Pray the rosary novena Oct. 27 – Nov. 4.
By Florence on Oct 27, 2008
Great article, Raquel. Keep up the good work!
By Mitchell Langbert on Oct 27, 2008
Now that the anti-science, superstition-based intiative presidency is coming to an end, we need several Manhattan projects to make us great again. First we must provide free advertising-based wireless internet to everyone. Then we must criss-cross the land with high speed rail. These two major public works projects will boost us out of the Grotesque Depression. We must develop microorganisms that may be freely distributed and become commonplace to improve our future. Because bovine flatulence is the major source of greenhouse gases, we must develop microorganisms which can be grow in the home that will provide all of our nutrition. Then we must create microorganisms which turn our sewage and waste into fuel. Since paranoid schizophrenia is the cause of racism, bigotry, homelessness, terrorism, ignorance, exploitation and criminality, we must provide put the appropriate medications, like lithium, in the water supply. We must also allow dangerous individuals who refuse free mental health care to be required to be implanted with drug release devices and microorganisms to improve their mindsets. We should encourage international organizations to do likewise. In order to fund this we must nationalize the entire financial, electrical and transportation system and abolish the silly notion that each industry should be regulated by its peers. Furthermore, as feudalism is the threat to progress everywhere, we must abolish large land holdings by farmers, foresters or religions and instead make all such large landholding part of the forest service so our trees may diminish greenhouse gases. We must abolish executive pay and make sure all employees in a company are all paid equally. We must abolish this exploitative idea of trade and make every home self sufficient through the microorganisms we invent.
By Vernon Malcolm on Nov 7, 2008
I hope Obama will have the sense not to raise taxes on people working for small and big business in a time where the economy is not so great, but I believe that will not happen. What will happen I believe is because Obama strikes me as an utraliberal he will raise taxes on people working for small and big business and give that money to people who are poor and don’t pay taxes. This is called welfare. Obama will be bringing back welfare that we got rid of in the 1990′s because it did not work. By doing this Obama will drive jobs overseas. This is what ultraliberals like to do raise taxes and redistrabute the wealth as I said earlier to people who don’t pay any taxes. Both houses of congress being Democrat will go along with Obama’s plan and endorse raising taxes on people working for small and big business just so people who do not pay taxes can have an easier time of living, which will make it harder for people who work for small and big businesses to live, for example paying their bills. So People who work for small and big business be aware your taxes will go up.
By Lev Brudnoy on Nov 7, 2008
Thank you Vern for writing, I appreciate different points of views at my blog. I wholeheartedly disagree with your premise and your proposed solutions. First thing I still do not see how President Bush’s policy is “anti-science.” The oath he took as President is to uphold the U.S. Constitution as set forth by this country’s founders, has been upheld and has not been “anti-science”. What you are proposing takes away many of the freedoms Americans share that are inherent in that document. What you are proposing is actually changing the U.S. Constitution into a society run by the government, and in history this system, has failed. I think this is a very dangerous course of action, because too much power in government leads to tyranny and oppression. Go live in Communist Cuba for a while, and see if you still have these radical views.
By Raquel on Nov 7, 2008
I have already given you my take on this redistribution of wealth charge on Obama while the US has a progressive tax system. The last eight years has actually been an example of wealth redistribution as most of the wealth has gone to the top 1% in the country.One thing I don’t hear people mention is that during the Reagan administration he enacted the Earned Income Tax Credit Act which was a very successful redistribution program that returns money to the working poor. Nobody cried socialism then did they?
And believe me the press did scrutinize Obama for the last 21 months its just that towards the end of the campaign the questions that came out were questions that came out during the primary and it was only at the last minute that the McCain camp decided to bring them up when they saw the polls slipping.
Lastly I saw Verns comments and also do not agree with most of his solutions and do not agree that the Bush administration was “Anti-Science”
By Reggie on Nov 8, 2008
Republicans who lost their sense of small government in the past 8 years have certainly hurt the Party. But I still contend that what the Democrats will do is even worse, much worse. They are the tax and spend kings and queens, which will hurt the economy.
I do still believe that the wealthy people in our country do pay enough, and deserve tax breaks too, because there is some truth that these wealthy people do reinvest into the economy, and that helps the economy as a whole. Yes, I believe there is a trickle down effect.
People want to talk about windfall profits, but they don’t talk about windfall tax collection that occurs with windfall profits. These funds pay our government officials, protect our Nation via our military, and give the money to Congress, who in turn spend it in their respective districts.
I do not agree with the rich vs. poor philosophy. I think that if someone is successful, they should enjoy its rewards. I think Americans are charitable especially when they are able to keep more of their money. I do not like the idea that government should take more money from the rich so that the government in turn can decide who needs the charity the most. Non-profits, friends, neighbors, communities, and Churches help the poor in a much more effective way than does the Government.
Remember it was Obama who concluded that “spreading the wealth” is the right thing to do, and while I do not think that his statement necessarily means full blown socialism, but it does lead us down a slippery slope.
By Raquel on Nov 8, 2008