Posted on 10/28/2008 10:16:12 AM PDT by Daniel T. Zanoza
The phrase "spreading the wealth around" seems to be catching on with those who oppose Barack Obama's bid for the presidency. However, these words, which Obama uttered to someone everyone's calling Joe the Plumber, do not stray far from policy which has dominated the left-wing of the Democratic Party for years.
But I believe this phrase would have an even greater significance in an Obama administration. Some are categorizing the redistribution of wealth philosophy as class warfare. Pit the have's against the have not's in American society and you have a built-in constituency which Democrats have been living off of for years.
Obama is taking this mindset to another level. He wants to take money away from the have's and give it to those who have never tried getting it on their own.
The dominant media has never pressed Obama about just what spreading the wealth around means. In reality, the junior Senator from Illinois wants to give tax breaks to Americans who don't pay taxes. The press has also failed to seek out Obama's position on reparations ...
(Excerpt) Read more at rffm.typepad.com ...
No, it is codespeak for “From each according to his ability; to each according to his need.”
//Obama: Is “Spread The Wealth Around” Code Speak For Reparations?//
Sure sounds like it could be
It’s only code for socialism.
We’ve already paid a few trillion to “disadvantaged minorities” in reparations thanks to goverment programs like welfare, affirmative action, etc. etc.
It’s simple Marxism.
B-I-N-G-O !!!
That is EXACTLY what it is.
No doubt about it. Just google Linda Darling Hammond Education Debt and see how his likely Secretary of Education views this issue.
Obama said in 2001 that the great failure of the Civil Rights Movement was not to achieve the redistribution of wealth. In that context it is most assuredly Reparations. Now, when the advocates of Reparations speak, they don’t mean they just want higher taxes on White America. They want assets, infrastructure and “power”.
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEYESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
In the 2001 WBEZ radio interview, Obama advocates “redistribution of wealth” as “economic justice” and as a “civil rights” issue. And a caller refers to Obama’s point as “reparative work economically” and “reparative economic work,” which Obama then calls “major redistributive change”:
OBAMA: But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. . . . One of the I think tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change and in some ways we still suffer from that. . . .
MODERATOR: Let’s talk with Karen. Good morning, Karen, you’re on Chicago Public Radio.
KAREN: Hi. The gentleman made the point that the Warren Court wasn’t terribly radical with economic changes. My question is, is it too late for that kind of reparative work economically and is that that the appropriate place for reparative economic work to take place – the court – or would it be legislation at this point?
OBAMA: Maybe I’m showing my bias here as a legislator as well as a law professor, but I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. . . .
- - - - -
Obamanomics: That’ll leave some Marx.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.