Obama Promises to Save the Middle Class by Enslaving It

Nothing says middle-class triumph like more regulation, unionism, cronyism and endless spending.

In Teddy Roosevelt's era, President Barack Obama explained to the nation this week, "some people thought massive inequality and exploitation was just the price of progress....But Roosevelt also knew that the free market has never been a free license to take whatever you want from whoever you can."

And he's right. Even today there are people who believe they should have free license to take whatever they want from whomever they can. They're called Democrats.

Yet the president, uniter of a fractured nation, the mighty slayer of infinite straw men, claims that some Americans "rightly" suppose that the economy is rigged against their best interests in a nation awash in breathtaking greed, massive inequality and exploitation. Or I should say, he's trying to convince us that it's the case.

The middle-class struggle to find a decent life is the "defining issue of our time," the president went on. And nothing says middle-class triumph like more regulation, unionism, cronyism and endless spending. Hey, Dwight Eisenhower (a Republican!) built the interstate highway system, for goodness' sake. Ergo, we must support a bailout package for public-sector unions—you know, for the middle class.

The middle-class struggle to find a decent life is the "defining issue of our time," the president went on...Obama and his 'rats are the biggest enemies the middle class have ever had - destroying good middle class jobs by rejecting the Keystone pipeline and bragging about "bankrupting the coal industry", driving up the cost of living by deliberately working to raise the cost of energy and transportation, and contemptuously supporting cultural and religious values in opposition to what most in the middle class believe, like homosexual marriage and abortion........

Why not Communism?

It worked so well in the Soviet Union....um ...well bad example.
Romania! Yes Ceausescu created a near paradise on Earth with his Communist agenda...no wait....

Pol Pot, certainly the people were constantly joyful....maybe not....
Well, well, certainly everyone under Fidel Castro and Che were tickled pink with the high prosperity and freedom brought to them by their benevolent dictators..that is to say, glorious leaders, what with being able to drive classic cars from the 1950’s for the last 50 years...bad example, I suppose. But still, 12 eggs a month! That's pretty good rations.....

Wait, wait, don't tell me.....North Korea. There you go! Who WOULDN'T want to live in North Korea?!?! The worker's enjoy every second of their live under such pleasurable circumstances, far ahead of anything you might find in America. The advances in Science and medicine and prosperous living conditions alone are enough to recommend it.

How can horrid old capitalism stand up to such achievements?
Chairman Obama must certainly be correct in advancing civilization through more Communism.

I rest my case.

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