Obama’s 'New Socialism'

We have learned a lot in the first one hundred days of the Obama administration. The most important lesson is that this administration’s operating ideology isn’t old-style liberalism or even old-style socialism. President Obama and his team are delivering a “New Socialism.”

Their “New Socialism” doesn’t need to capture property. It is content to control the economy through taxation and regulation and the attitudes of our citizens by the establishment of a culture through the power institutions of our society: the media, the education establishment, and powerful business interests. Moreover, the “New Socialism” seeks to create a conventional wisdom that discredits all alternative thought.

The first part of their New Socialism began with the financial crisis. Radical financial policies are reducing the economic freedom of our citizens. While there were many alternatives to the current stimulus program the course chosen throws out money to pay for long-deferred government spending. Some stimulus money is conditioned on states changing their laws to permanently expand government programs.

This spending program plays into the natural desire of every politician to grab the money for their own special interests. The budget of the US is about $3.2 trillion. Current projects call for increasing the deficit to at least $1.75 trillion. But this money is not free. If it were we would have been able to solve all of society’s problems years ago merely by throwing money at them.

The money to pay for Obama’s spending spree has to be paid by someone. We are invited to sell out our brother by saying, “don’t worry, the rich will pay for it.” But the numbers do not add up. There are not enough wealthy people to pay for the increased debt created by the stimulus program. We are headed inevitably for high taxes like many European countries or high inflation which causes great suffering and destabilizes the society. Or both.

And we can see the next steps toward institutionalizing Obama’s New Socialism: they are rooted in the asserted threat of global warming...

Or “Neo-Com” for short.

As for Gilmore’s column, what he fails to understand is that this is a gradual takeover. He knows there is no national consensus yet to seize property. That will come later.

Once the government owns your bank, owns your employer and owns your health care, they’ll be back to take the rest when you no longer have a choice but to accede. That’s how Obamunism will work....communism without firing a shot. They will choke the private-sector economy to the point that people will *beg* the government to take over their lives. And the neo-coms will be only to glad to do that.

Does this remind you of anyone???

Rudolf Hess, while a student at the University of Munich, wrote a prize-winning essay answering the question: “What Kind of a Man Will Lead Germany Back to Her Previous Heights?” When he met Adolph Hitler in 1920, he realized the similarities between what he had written and the man Hitler.

THE ESSAY OUTLINED THE FOLLOWING:

First and foremost, the leader had to be a man of the people, a man whose roots were deeply embedded in the masses so that he would know how to relate to them psychologically. Only such a man could gain the trust of the people, but, this was only to be his “public” image.

Second, in reality such a man should have nothing in common with the masses; for when the need arose, he should not flinch from bloodshed. Great questions are always decided by “blood and iron.” The “public” image must be kept separate from the actual performance.

Third, he had to be a man who was willing to trample on his closest friends to achieve his goals. He must be a man of extreme hardness and as the occasions arise, he must crush people with the heel of his boots.

Hitler was taken by the essay and was very impressed with Hess a man who had such uncanny insight and vowed he would be that man. He would give the appearance of being one of the masses, but in reality he would be quite another. When brutality was called for, he could act with force and decisiveness. He would do what the individuals among the masses could not. He would not flinch from cruelty. “The German people must be misled if the support of the masses is required,” he mused.

Little wonder Hitler and Hess became close friends.

Privately Hitler prepared for war; publicly he gave speeches about his desire for peace. Privately he enjoyed pornography; publicly he insisted on right conduct, no swearing, no off-color jokes in his presence. At times he could be charming and forgiving; most other times he was monstrously cruel, as when he insisted that those who conspired against him be “hung on a meat hook and slowly strangled to death with piano wire, the pressure being periodically released to intensify the death agonies.”

Privately (and sometimes publicly) he prided himself in his honesty, yet often he reveled in his ability to deceive.
Hitler engineered the atrocities of “the final solution.” He was a man of many of contradictions. He saved dried bread to feed squirrels and birds and just months after coming to power signed three pieces of legislation to protect animals; yet he worked himself into a frenzy of delight over the pictures of great capitals in Europe in flames.

He could weep with tenderness when talking to children and rejoice over the completion of another concentration camp. Compassionate and even generous with family and friends, he would become filled with vindictive rage at anyone-including close friends-who stood in the way of his agenda. He could be charming or brutal, generous or savage.

Hitler’s dictatorship enjoyed such wide support of the people. Perhaps never in history was a dictator so well liked. He had the rare gift of motivating a nation to want to follow him.

John Adams said: Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Sam Adams said: public officials should not be chosen if they are lacking in experience, training, proven virtue, and demonstrated wisdom.

Ben Franklin said: High salaries for government offices are the best way to attract scoundrels and drive from the halls of public office those men who possess true merit and virtue.

“There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh — get first all the people’s money, then their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever. It will be said that we do not propose to establish kings. I know it. But there is a natural inclination in mankind to kingly government. It sometimes relieves them from aristocratic domination. They had rather have one tyrant than 500. It gives more the appearance of equality among citizens, and that they like. I am apprehensive — therefore — perhaps too apprehensive — that the government of these States may in future times end in a monarchy [not called a monarchy but an executive with monarchial powers]. But this catastrophe, I think, may long be delayed, if in our proposed system we do not sow the seeds of contention, faction and tumult, by making our posts of honor places of profit. If we do, I fear that, though we employ at first a number and not a single person, the number will in time be set aside, it will only nourish the fetus of a king (as the honorable gentleman from Virginia very aptly expressed it), and a king will the sooner be set over us.” ~~ Ben Franklin

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This book is a gold mine of information using the Founding Fathers’ own words to explain the thought processes behind The US Constitution.

The USofA strayed from the course set out by the Founding Fathers. It is up to us to wrest the wheel of the ship of state and put her back on course.

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