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.
Obama's Stem Cell Spinning
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Gibson (Sept. 12): Embryonic stem cell research, John McCain has been supportive of it.
Palin: My personal opinion is we should not create human life, create an embryo and then destroy it for research, if there are other options out there. And thankfully, again, not only are there other options, but we're getting closer and closer to finding a tremendous amount more of options, like, as I mentioned, the adult stem cell research.
But Palin has acknowledged more than once (including in the Gibson interview) that McCain's ideas would prevail if the ticket is elected Nov. 4. And McCain hasn't adjusted the stem cell language on his campaign Web site since Palin came on board.
It's also true that the Republican platform calls for a ban on any research experimentation on human embryos, regardless of whether the embryos were scheduled for destruction or not:
Republican Platform, 2008: We call for a ban on human cloning and for a ban on the creation of or experimentation on human embryos for research purposes.
Despite all the sturm-und-drang that goes into cobbling together a party platform, the truth is that it doesn't dictate a candidate's positions or how he will govern if elected.
In this set of ads, the misimpressions created by the Obama-Biden ad are far worse than the passing blip in the McCain-Palin/RNC spots. The Democrats' ad should be shelved in a closet and hauled out only if McCain really does change his position on stem cell funding. So far, that's not the case.
Republished with permission from factcheck.org.
Sources
California Republican Debate Transcript, MSNBC, 3 May 2007.
Addressing the Moral Concerns of Advanced Technology, McCain-Palin 2008 Web site, accessed 29 September 2008.
McCain Statement on Stem Cell Research, United States Senate Web site of Sen. John McCain, 18 July 2006.
John McCain's answers to the top 14 science questions facing America, Science Debate 2008 Web site, 15 Sept. 2008.
Wallsten, Peter and Bob Drogin. "McCain Seeks to Reassure Conservatives in Ohio," Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2008.
Alaska Gubernatorial Debate, C-Span Video Library, 2 Nov. 2006.
Young, Jeffrey. "Stem Cell Backers Doubt McCain's Support," The Hill, 12 Aug. 2008.
Wereschagin, Mike. "Democratic Candidates Try to Reach Religious Voters," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 13 April 2008.
Youngman, Sam. "Religious right leader says McCain has 'work to do' to win evangelicals," The Hill, 12 Mar
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