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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.

Why, in all the discussion about alternative energy, is there no mention of geothermal. I know that Nevada was developing quite a large project in one of the towns along I-80 some years ago. We no longer live in Nevada and I have not heard anything more about it. I know there are many, many areas in the United States with large underground sources of hot water; and that some other countries do generate electricity from geo thermal sources.
Do you know if either of the Presidential candidates have included it in their plans to develop alternative sources of energy?
Emmy Hockett, Ajo, Arizona

One question that I have related to this interesting article is global warming in general. As far as I am aware, George Bush continues to state that we can't aggressively deal with global warming because it may hurt the economy. In the meantime, millions and perhaps billions of dollars are being lost because of hurricanes, fires, drought, and floods as a result at least in part due to global warming. Yet, to my knowledge, know one has writing any articles stating that George Bush is wrong and the economy is being harmed because we are not tackling global warming with all of our resources available to us.

Wayne Wathen

I would as a consumer like to purchase 13 tons of carbon emissions, since I wouldn't actually use them this would decrease the amount of carbon beyond the cap. Can the general consumer get in on the game??