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.
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Jonathan Alter
McCain and the Zigzag Express
In this crisis, the GOP candidate has swerved all over the road.
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John McCain's whole campaign is based on the idea that Barack Obama is risky, untested and can't be trusted to protect the nation in a crisis. But this week it was McCain who seemed unpresidential, as his Zigzag Express swerved back and forth across the median strip. His approach to the greatest financial crisis since 1933 was erratic and off-key. Would his presidency be any different?
McCain's first reaction to the climactic events of Sunday, Sept. 14, when Lehman Brothers fell, Merrill Lynch was sold and AIG began to totter, was to repeat his longstanding sound bite that "the fundamentals of the economy are strong." When Obama predictably leapt on this clueless comment with a TV ad, McCain quickly backtracked by saying that he was merely talking about the strength of "the American worker" and anyone who disagreed obviously had a problem understanding the importance of working people. He told the morning shows that he was a Republican in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt, though his true views on free-market economics are more in tune with Herbert Hoover.
This year, that just won't do. So Tuesday, Sept. 16, was John Edwards Day in the McCain camp, as the candidate raged against corporate greed. The goal here was to trade on his reputation as a reformer of campaign finance to confuse voters into thinking he also had a long record as a crusader against the sins of Wall Street. After all, the words "reformer" and "regulator" sound similar. In truth, McCain voted in favor of every deregulatory effort that came up for a vote during his 26 years in Congress and bragged well into 2008 about his free-market "deregulatory" bent. As the The Washington Post pointed out, he did raise concerns about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after a report about shoddy accounting, but this was never a focus of his legislative career.
Obama's gauzy attacks on McCain's "philosophy" made him sound like a philosophy professor, which is not exactly the image he needs right now. But his hesitancy during the week looked more prudent than McCain's forthright and impassioned arguments on all sides of all issues. McCain opposed bailing out AIG before he supported it, then opposed it again. He voted to confirm former representative Chris Cox as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2005 and uttered no criticism of him until this week when he said Cox had "betrayed the public trust" and that he would fire him (though the president has no power to do so). When that didn't go over well, he called Cox "a good man" and dropped talk of trying to force his resignation.
The big fight of the week was over who had the most evil lobbyists on staff. The McCain campaign launched a broadside at Obama for taking advice from Franklin Raines, a disgraced former chief of Fannie Mae. But Raines was never an Obama adviser and had much less contact with the Obama campaign than a top lobbyist for Fannie and Freddie had with the McCain campaign. That lobbyist's name is Rick Davis and he's McCain's campaign manager. "People with seven glass houses shouldn't throw stones," gibed the Obama campaign. Obama himself, rising to the occasion, went after the hypocrisy of McCain's faux populist attacks on "the old boys network" in Washington when he has several of the most powerful lobbyists in town working for him. "The old boys network?" Obama said. "In the McCain campaign, that's called a staff meeting."
Friday, when Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced the largest financial restructuring in the history of the United States, was a time for sober reflection and nonpartisan leadership. It would have been nice if politicians had a moment of honesty and announced "the era of Big Government is back" or "We are all socialists now," but it's understandable why they did not. President Bush, perceiving the requirements of the day, spoke in measured and bipartisan tones. So did Obama. McCain, by contrast, used the solemn occasion to unleash more harsh and tone-deaf shots at Obama. And he expects us to believe he wouldn't be a highly partisan president when that suited his purposes?
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