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Socialism doesn't work for Greece, so why does Obama insist on the failed model for the U.S.?
LIbertarian Republican ^ | Saturday, July 2, 2011 | Wayne Allyn Root

Posted on 07/03/2011 6:00:43 PM PDT by FreeKeys

If income redistribution works...if tax and spend is a model for America...why is Greece a bankrupt basket case threatening to bring down the entire European Union?

A much more important question: Why is Greece, with a 45% income tax rate, a 23% VAT tax (national sales tax) plus a host of other taxes, still hopelessly bankrupt? Greeks pay up to 70% to 80% of their income to the government. Yet Greece is insolvent. With all those heavy taxes, it took $160 billion to bail them out only one year ago. Now they need at least another $50 to 100 billion. Why would Obama want higher taxes for America, when Greece proves the model doesn't work?

All those Greek voters elected socialist politicians because they promised fat pensions, free health care, and lavish early retirement. Now they face unimaginable poverty for years to come. So the lesson is that when politicians promise chocolate cake with no calories, they should be put in prison for fraud.

Perhaps Obama should go to Greek's socialist rulers and ask for advice before we wind up with our own Big Fat Greek Bankruptcy.


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: europeanunion; fail; greece; obama; socialism
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Socialism doesn't work for Greece, so why does Obama insist on the failed model for the U.S.?

B E C A U S E:
"Everything Obama does comes straight from the most stilted and destructive clichés of the left. The man has never had an original idea in his life, and wouldn't recognize one if it were served up on a plate with arugula. He is intellectually locked in concrete." - James Lewis, HERE

1 posted on 07/03/2011 6:00:50 PM PDT by FreeKeys
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To: FreeKeys

Because Obama is trying to destroy us. Next question?


2 posted on 07/03/2011 6:04:23 PM PDT by livius
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To: 4Liberty; econjack; businessprofessor; John Locke; PGalt; socialismisinsidious; fhayek; ...

OCD rigidity in the White House


3 posted on 07/03/2011 6:05:03 PM PDT by FreeKeys (THE basic, fatal system flaw destroying our liberty: allowing morons, moochers, & looters to vote.)
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To: FreeKeys

Why does Obama insist on a failed model?
Because it works, it results in the destruction
of the polis.

Chaos is the sea the socialist swims in.


4 posted on 07/03/2011 6:05:40 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: FreeKeys
Socialism doesn't work for Greece, so why does Obama insist on the failed model for the U.S.?

The question answers itself.

BHO is one of the most succesful Presidents American has ever had.

5 posted on 07/03/2011 6:06:26 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle
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To: FreeKeys

Obama thinks giving 80% of your money to the government just isn’t enough


6 posted on 07/03/2011 6:07:07 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: FreeKeys

All true. But also, leftist utopians see every failure not as a failure of true socialism, but failure because the implementation of plan was faulty. This enables them to try again and again.


7 posted on 07/03/2011 6:07:59 PM PDT by oneolcop (Lead, Follow or Get the Hell Out of the Way!)
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To: FreeKeys; All

Obama is a dumb-a$$ con man who conned his way into Columbia, and Harvard with the help of some evil men.

Next....


8 posted on 07/03/2011 6:09:20 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: FreeKeys
"Socialism doesn't work for Greece, so why does Obama insist on the failed model for the U.S.?

BECAUSE HE'S A SOCIALIST. DUH!

9 posted on 07/03/2011 6:09:34 PM PDT by Graneros ("It is no exaggeration to say that the undecided could go one way or another.")
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To: FreeKeys

Socialists, Communists and other Statists always think that even though everyone has failed in the past, THEY are the ones talented and smart enough to make it work “This Time”.

If their efforts weren’t so DAMNED dangerous and destructive, they would simply be fools. What they are doing threatens my country, my freedom and my way of life, so it is much, MUCH more than that.


10 posted on 07/03/2011 6:10:33 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions." Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: FreeKeys

The real reason is because they believe that the socialist model will work if only the right people (them) are in charge.


11 posted on 07/03/2011 6:13:02 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Someday the story will come out about how he got into Columbia and Harvard. It won’t be wrote by a member of the MSM; it will come from one of the British newspapers.
It is clear that the MSM has stories on Obama that makes him look bad and that if made public before the November 2008 election would have lead to his defeat.


12 posted on 07/03/2011 6:13:38 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: livius

And that my friend is why he needs to be removed from office. If not removed, made useless by Congress.


13 posted on 07/03/2011 6:18:44 PM PDT by RC2
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To: FreeKeys

Obama thinks that a total collapse would somehow leave him and Moosechelle to melt and reform society into a shape that satisfies them. They fail to recognise the other option.


14 posted on 07/03/2011 6:24:42 PM PDT by MtnClimber (Osama and Obama both have friends that bombed the Pentagon.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Don’t ya hate rhetorical questions (apart from this one)?

Thanks FreeKeys.


15 posted on 07/03/2011 6:28:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: livius

He is a Communist?


16 posted on 07/03/2011 6:30:41 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Socialism...Easier said than done.)
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To: MtnClimber

Like torches tar and feathers?


17 posted on 07/03/2011 6:32:36 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Socialism...Easier said than done.)
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To: FreeKeys

Why does Hussein demand the failed model for the US? Because socialism creates ignorance, incompetence and DEPENDENCY and these create Democrat voters!!


18 posted on 07/03/2011 6:38:14 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: FreeKeys
"All those Greek voters elected socialist politicians because they promised fat pensions, free health care, and lavish early retirement."

The man who wrote this article is smarter than most. He sees where the blame truly lies. Same goes for America. Obama didn't elect himself.

19 posted on 07/03/2011 6:40:17 PM PDT by Batrachian (Prepare for four more years)
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To: FreeKeys

I believe that there is a long list of very large reasons, but at it’s cornerstone, there remains one basic motivation, racism. The bastard hates whites and everything our country has ever stood for.


20 posted on 07/03/2011 6:45:40 PM PDT by Gator113 ("GAME ON." I'll be voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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