Friday, March 26, 2010

Is there anybody left who doubts Obama is a socialist?

I remember the looks of disdain at the “fear mongering”. Ha Ha! Look it up.

Wikipedia

Dictionary.com Socialism - a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.

Concise Encyclopedia of Economics Socialism—defined as a centrally planned economy in which the government controls all means of production—was the tragic failure of the twentieth century. Born of a commitment to remedy the economic and moral defects of capitalism, it has far surpassed capitalism in both economic malfunction and moral cruelty.

Britannica

social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources. According to the socialist view, individuals do not live or work in isolation but live in cooperation with one another. Furthermore, everything that people produce is in some sense a social product, and everyone who contributes to the production of a good is entitled to a share in it. Society as a whole, therefore, should own or at least control property for the benefit of all its members.

[Capitalism provides for] private ownership of the means of production and allows individual choices in a free [market] to determine how goods and services are distributed. Socialists complain that capitalism necessarily leads to unfair and exploitative concentrations of wealth and power in the hands of the relative few who emerge victorious from free-market competition—people who then use their wealth and power to reinforce their dominance in society. Because such people are rich, they may choose where and how to live, and their choices in turn limit the options of the poor. As a result, terms such as individual freedom and equality of opportunity may be meaningful for capitalists but can only ring hollow for working people, who must do the capitalists’ bidding if they are to survive. As socialists see it, true freedom and true equality require of the resources that provide the basis for prosperity in any society. and made this point in (1848) when they proclaimed that in a socialist society “the condition for the free development of each is the free development of all.”

Think government control of banks, health care, automobile industry , energy and just keep going. Watch what they do not what they say.

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