Posted on 01/25/2015 9:21:57 AM PST by John Semmens
In his 2015 State-of-the Union address, President Obama lamented the unfairness of a society where only the few do spectacularly well. He proposed to rectify this injustice by expanding government programs that would offer pittances to a broader number of people who comply with specified behaviors. One stark example was the President’s proposal to penalize individuals who set aside money for their own children’s education with higher taxes that would be used to partially fund community college for all.
“Why should those who have the means to finance their own children’s college be permitted to do so when the children of others have to forgo college because they can’t afford it?” Obama asked. “The decision on who goes to college and who doesn’t should be made using a collective benefit calculus. The government, as the representative of the collective will of the people, has the moral authority to decide who will and who won’t best serve society by being further educated. My plan will move us closer to realizing this ideal.”
The President made a similar case against individuals profiting from their own efforts to save and invest. “Investing society’s scarce resources is too important to be left to the anarchy of private choices,” Obama contended. “Individuals are narrowly focused on how profitable an investment might be. We need to shift away from a system that leaves the bulk of our financial resources in private hands to one where the major part of the money and decision making are in the hands of the government. Only the government has the scope of expertise to determine the rightful allocation of resources and benefits for all the people.”
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http://azconservative.org/2015/01/24/white-house-outraged-over-boehner-invitation-to-netanyahu/
Guess the POTUS assumes that debt does not mean liabilities or that plastic surgery = real beauty. Very sad.
Karl Marx HATED the middle class.
Using Marx’s ideas to help the middle class is like using Hitler’s ideas to help the Jews.
“The TRUTH”Always has an element of HUMOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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