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Obama and "Redistributive Change". His real agenda [Victor Davis Hanson]
NRO ^ | August 26, 2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 08/26/2009 5:07:32 AM PDT by Tolik

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1 posted on 08/26/2009 5:07:33 AM PDT by Tolik
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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/victordavishanson/index:
Obama vs. Obama "The fault, dear Barack, is not in our stars, But in ourselves"
The Strange Case of the Obama Meltdown
Divine Debt Trumps All - The U.S. is broke and its ability to borrow ever...
The Obama Administration : What Went Wrong
Our Road to Oceania
When America Will Become Europe. Thoughts of Our European Future to Come
Bullying Israel-only country with which the U.S. has worse relations since Obama took office
Prairie-Fire Anger. Why Are People in Revolt?
Obama's Great Race to Change America
The Great American Debt (We are committing national suicide by debt addiction to foreigners)
Mediterranean Reflections on What Went Wrong
What Happened to Our Postracial President? Lose, Lose When You Talk About Race
Obama’s Path Not Taken. What Might Have Happened
On Shearing Sheep (relentless hostility to small business)
The War Against the Producers
A Thug’s Primer - How to win liberal friends and oppress your people
What Do these First Six Months Mean? Where Are We Going?
The New Orwellianism
Reflections on the Iranian Enigma. The World Turned Upside Down
Still a Boor and a Coward [Victor Davis Hanson on Letterman, Wright + Thoughts on a Creepy Culture]
A Boor and a Coward [Victor Davis Hanson tears apart the creep, a.k.a David Letterman]
Our Historically Challenged President. A list of distortions
I No Longer Quite Believe ... [Victor Davis Hanson on Orwellian media & science, race relations]
The Reckoning. Obama Versus the Way of the Universe
President Palin’s First 100 Days. Imagine if Sarah Palin had Obama’s record
Confessions of a Contrarian [deconstructing Obama, the Left and more]
President Obama’s First 70 Days. It really does all make sense
Thoughts About Depressed Americans
Bush Did It. What a difference an election makes [Brilliant Parody]
Our Battered American [gets angrier - Must Read Rant]
Just a partial list. Much more at the link:  http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/victordavishanson/index
2 posted on 08/26/2009 5:09:18 AM PDT by Tolik
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3 posted on 08/26/2009 5:16:10 AM PDT by Tolik
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To: Tolik

RE :”But I think the key was not so much the spending excess or new entitlements. The point instead was the consequence of the resulting deficits, which will require radically new taxation for generations. If on April 15 the federal and state governments, local entities, the Social Security system, and the new health-care programs can claim 70 percent of the income of the top 5 percent of taxpayers, then that is considered a public good — every bit as valuable as funding new programs, and one worth risking insolvency”

I believe it. Of course it is our job to talk about Unemployment and debt over and over and make Obama own them.


4 posted on 08/26/2009 5:18:14 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Socialist Conservatives: "'Big government is free because tax cuts pay for it'")
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To: Tolik

Obama is the most successful communist traitor mole in history, bar none. Kim Philby couldn’t tie his shoes.


5 posted on 08/26/2009 5:20:46 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Tolik

There’s so much irony in all of this. The obvious, indeed stated agenda equals Reparations. It’s Reparations by any other name. One must never forget that a majority of U.S. voters elected this president. The key to that of course is that over 50% of the population receives more in benefits from this gov’t than they pay in. Thus we have a majority voting pool of parasites. Thus we have a Parasitic Gov’t. And one of the ironies of this is that brave patriots die in service to their country in Afghanistan and Iraq; serving the cause of freedom for a country now largely of parasites feasting through their parasitic gov’t.


6 posted on 08/26/2009 5:22:40 AM PDT by glide625
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To: Tolik

“...it is war...it is the war of the Democrats against the Baby Boom...who have paid into and now are poised to reap the “benefits” of Social Security and Medicare...it is the war of those who created these fraudulent programs ...which have fleeced 45 years of taxes from the Baby Boom..and never intended to grant them the “benefits” they were conned into allowing to be withheld from their paychecks. It is a personal war...because by hastening them to their graves...they intend to fleece their descendants of their estates.”


7 posted on 08/26/2009 5:24:00 AM PDT by mo
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“inflation of the currency and greater national debt to lessen the power of accumulated capital”

DING!!!!! We have a winner!


8 posted on 08/26/2009 5:24:24 AM PDT by massatoosits
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To: glide625

no reason to work, creat jobs or do anything...I love the way they are threatening Seniors ss and medical....they will pass a do nothing bill to passify the seniors and take more of your money....what do you want to bet after they drain us dry they still ask for reparation.we can own water in my state....the state owns it all....even if i make my own lake....its their wate...now they own the air that we breathe and can cut it off at anytime.


9 posted on 08/26/2009 5:30:58 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: Tolik

“You have no idea how far State control goes and how
much power the Nazi representatives have over our work.
The worst of it is that they are so ignorant. In this respect they certainly
differ from the former Social-Democratic officials.
These Nazi radicals think of nothing except ‘distributing the wealth.’

“Some businessmen have even started studying Marxist
theories, so that they will have a better understanding of
the present economic system.”

— From “The Vampire Economy - Doing Business Under Fascism,” Guenter Reimann, 1939.


10 posted on 08/26/2009 5:31:59 AM PDT by Liberty Ship ("Lord, make me fast and accurate.")
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The problem with wealth re-distribution is that it is not zero-sum. By extracting from higher incomes we inevitably target the very engine of the economy, that is to say, employers, investors, and entrepreneurs. These are the "rich" we've been villifying. Capital formation and risk taking are thereby reduced.

The same Obama that didn't unerstand that capital gains tax reductions have historically resulted in more tax revenues for the government, doesn't grasp this fact, nor do most liberals.

11 posted on 08/26/2009 5:36:03 AM PDT by wayoverontheright
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To: Tolik
” in the president’s own language, the government must equalize the circumstances of the “waitress” with those of the “lucky.”

The waitress will be lucky to have a job when the top 5% stop dining at restaurants. Of course this will never apply to the obama’s and emmanuel’s, who shelter their wealth from taxation or live off the donated largess of those they despise.

12 posted on 08/26/2009 5:36:38 AM PDT by silverleaf (If we are astroturf, why are the democrats trying to mow us?)
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To: Tolik

“Given the September 2008 financial meltdown”

So - the same tactic that put Roosevelt’s beginnings of Socialism in place were used again. Just as the Fed created the depression to let FDR Socialize the government, so the NWO bankers simply created a financial crisis (never waste a good crisis) and engineered the Obama election with massive amounts of money for TV commercials, the cooperation of the media in saturating the news with his face, and ACORN voter fraud and - - - Voila! A Marxist government in the USA.


13 posted on 08/26/2009 6:03:39 AM PDT by RoadTest (Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. Psalm 129:5)
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To: Travis McGee
"Kim Philby couldn’t tie his shoes."...

Good thing you said 'tie'--'shine' would have been RACIST ! ....LOL....

14 posted on 08/26/2009 6:14:33 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory tooooo long)
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To: Tolik

What Obama has always been about, what he was trained for by Frank Marshall Davis and Rev. Wright and Billie Ayers — a giant “smash and grab” looting of the nation. “Redistributive justice” indeed.


15 posted on 08/26/2009 6:17:37 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Nepolean fries the idea powder)
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To: Tolik

later


16 posted on 08/26/2009 6:19:45 AM PDT by I_be_tc
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To: Tolik

17 posted on 08/26/2009 6:38:44 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: wayoverontheright

Obama understands both of those concepts very well. He just doesn’t care. He’d rather have massive redistribution, giving everyone close to equal pieces of a smaller pie, than have very unequal distribution of a much larger pie - even if it means that the smallest piece of the larger pie is bigger than the roughly equal pieces of the smaller one.


18 posted on 08/26/2009 6:38:52 AM PDT by green iguana
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To: Tolik

OUTSTANDING article by VDH! Thanks for posting.

The lightweight-socialist, propagandists-created, con-man fooled many. The bulk of his anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life statist allies were in place long before he arrived. We should’ve drummed his legislative support system out of office one-by-one long ago. He is their poster child. The neo-statist. Hope and change becomes rope and chains.


19 posted on 08/26/2009 6:49:35 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Travis McGee

And he brought all his friends with him.


20 posted on 08/26/2009 6:51:58 AM PDT by Vaduz
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