Obama's view of the future of America - Socialism which is the next step to Communism!!
Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.
The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own. Socialism's teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Bennito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: "Common good comes before private good." Fascism, said
Mussolini, is "a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests??realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies."
Socialism is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice: It is the social system which uses compulsion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.
Despite the intellectuals' psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just social system.
Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.
Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.
It is both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one's birth or station in life.
Yes, there are winners and losers in capitalism. The winners are those who are honest, industrious, thoughtful, prudent, frugal, responsible, disciplined, and efficient. The losers are those who are shiftless, lazy, imprudent, extravagant, negligent, impractical, and inefficient. [What about the role of luckbeing in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time? R. R. Pope}
Capitalism is the only social system that rewards virtue and punishes vice. This applies to both the business executive and the carpenter, the lawyer and the factory worker.
LIVING POLITICS
Howard Fineman
Palin Goes Prime Time
Previewing the Alaska governor's speech.
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We are about to see a true rarity in politics: an unpredictable, unscripted, scripted moment. Wednesday night, an unknown and barely tested woman from a small town in far away Alaska will make her debut as a would-be global leader in front of the Republican convention, the country and the entire world.
No one has the faintest idea what will happen. These occasions are so rare: when pundits, reporters and insiders alike have no idea how a major figure will perform. The reason for their ignorance is that Gov. Sarah Palin has been a "major figure" for about … five minutes.
It's unprecedented, which is what makes the occasion riveting.
Even as the country watches and judges Palin—first impressions mean everything in politics—the person who really will be on trial Wednesday night is the man who picked her: John McCain. Voters will measure him, and his ability to lead, based on her performance. After all, picking her as his running mate was his first big "presidential" decision.
If you like an underdog, you sort of have to root for her, no matter your leanings. She will either survive and prosper, or crash to earth.
By all accounts Palin is a brave soul—as a politician, mother, hunter and former athlete in basketball. She had better be.
Her history-making selection as Senator McCain's running mate, combined with the circumstances of the choice and her own limited background, makes her speech here a fateful—and potentially memorable—moment in recent American political history.
No one in recent memory has been nominated for vice president with such a thin traditional resume. No woman has ever been nominated by the GOP for the job. No one has spent less time on the national stage before being thrust upon it. No such candidate has been a mother with five kids. The list could go on.
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