Posted on 01/31/2012 12:30:22 AM PST by jda
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Janet Daley wrote a blistering column for The Daily Telegraph over the weekend entitled Barack Obama is trying to make the US a more socialist state. In the piece, Daley writes that the days of the world looking to the United States for leadership are over:
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Listening to the Presidents State of the Union message last week was like a surreal visit to our own recent past: there were, almost word for word, all those interminable Gordon Brown Budgets that preached fairness while listing endless new ways in which central government would intervene in every form of economic activity.
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Daley goes on to criticize the Presidents childlike conception of fairness, pointing out that when you breakdown the redistribution of wealth from entrepreneurial activity to public spending, the effects are much more complex and perverse than the President would suggest:
There is, it turns out, a huge difference between being provided with a livelihood and feeling that you have earned it. The assumption that all the wealth that individuals create belongs, by moral right, to the state, to spend on benefits or phoney job creation schemes (sorry, public infrastructure projects), is proving phenomenally difficult to expunge in Britain, so ineradicably has it embedded itself in the public consciousness.
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It is bizarre that Obama should be regarded (or should regard himself) as a kind-of European who is trying to bring a sophisticated kind-of socialism to American economic life, complete with government-run health care and fair (high) taxes on the wealthy. If his European credentials were up to date, he would know that this was precisely the social model that is causing the EU to implode, and whose hopeless contradictions the best economic minds on the Continent are attempting, unsuccessfully, to resolve.
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(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
After describing the Presidents attachment to the left-liberal dream, which still survives in small pockets of American life, Daley concludes that if the United States ceases to stand by its constitution and political institutions specifically designed to prevent the government from oppressing the rights of the individual citizen, it will make a stupid mistake and suffer a catastrophic loss of purpose and identity.
At least someone, albeit the foreign press, is pointing out that Obama and his policies are rooted in socialism, while our own msm continues to bow mindlessly to The One???
Pfl
Hope and Change.... Tragic.
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