If Obama is a socialist, what was FDR?

TBO.com ^ | August 2, 2009 | WILLIAM MARCH

[RoadTest]

O.K.. I’m going to venture a translation of FDR’s speech based on how these things unfolded in the following years:

“The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;”

Compulsory union membership.

The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;

See above.

“The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;”

Artificial government price supports.

The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;

Over-regulation by the government: mountains of government forms to fill out and turn in, punishment for getting too successful (big).

The right of every family to a decent home;

Pouring billion$ into loans that would never be repaid, causing the start of our present financial trainwreck.

The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;

Oh boy; here we go: OBAMACARE!

The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;

The Ponzi scheme of Social Security - addictive as cocaine (we can’t give it up).

The right to a good education.

The Socialist NEA’s homosexuality 101, touchy-feely diversity and cultural homogenization, resulting in the recent find that the longer an American stays in school, the farther behind students of other developed countries he falls.

That’s how FDR’s program worked out in reality. Was he a Socialist/Communist?

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FDR was a socialist progressive...what some have termed as quasi-socialism.

[NormsRevenge]

FDR was a Fabian Socialist, an early ‘Third Way’ Progressive if you will.

Today, we’re full of EUrocRats in doves clothing... the banner is the same no matter what you call them.. Peace

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Fabian_Society

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Interesting. Thank you for the link.

[ansel12]

In a time of strong men FDR was our “El Presidente for Life”.

Once he was elected in 1932 he refused to relinquish office until his death in office after winning four national elections.

[Iron Munro]

Barack hmself says it all in his usual leftist code-speak:

“We’ve got to make sure that people who have more money help the people who have less money.”

“We’re going to reshape America in a way that is less mean-spirited and more generous.”

[Iron Munro]

You can’t judge Socialism by what it says to you. While it says "the good of society" its real goal is total control of "the Masses".

As with Obama and every other leftist, commie and socialist, they use code-speak and what they say is at best only part of what they mean.
When socialists like Obama and FDR say something is "for the good of society" what they really mean is "for the good of society as I perceive it."

They all believe they have superior wisdom and insight that gives them the right govern every aspect of our lives. It is their altruistic duty to share their superior wisdom, to tell others how to live their lives down to the smallest detail - buckle up - wear a helmet, don't smoke, don't eat meat, no dodge ball for kids, what kind of car to drive.

(Remember Obama said he hoped the controversy surrounding the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. would become a "teaching moment"? Of course, he is the teacher and the dim witted whites are the pupils.)

They are puzzled and frustrated that we are seemingly too dense to understand - everything they do, they do for us. Instead of resisting them why aren't we on our knees thanking them?