IT'S STUPID; SOCIALISM

Barack Obama revealed a part of his agenda over the weekend when he told a small businessman that he wasn’t trying to punish his success he was just trying to redistribute his wealth to give others a chance. (He said this to a man who made his own chances in this free society of unlimited opportunity.)
This follows on a recent Biden interview with Katie Couric in which Joey said plainly that he and Barack would take the money of the upper class. He said this was patriotism. Those who have enjoyed some success in their lives, generally through a great deal of hard work and risk taking, are now judged unpatriotic if they don’t turn their pockets out so politicians can promise the lazy and unambitious can have a lifestyle comparable to theirs - of course the politicians never deliver on those promises, they just take the money.
It has reached the point where Obama’s spokespeople aren’t even denying his socialist intentions – of course they don’t yet call it socialism; they are experts at newspeak and doublespeak. Bob Beckel on Fox News today said that Obama will redistribute the wealth and that economic redistribution is part of his plan. He said plainly that Obama will take the wealth of the successful to fulfill his agenda. Beckel denies that this is socialism, but that's only because he is so steeped in Democrat ideology that he no longer recognizes socialism when it hits him in the face. He said that he’s just a football player, indicating that he shouldn’t be expected to understand economics. He sure doesn’t. You can call a dog a duck, but he ain’t gonna quack. Whatever you call socialism it is still socialism.
So what’s the problem with socialism? That’s a good question. The answer is simple – show me a socialist economy that succeeds. The more socialist the economy becomes the more it fails. Ask the Russians, ask the Chinese. They have learned that capitalism succeeds where socialism fails. Ask the people of these countries how blessed the poor were under their socialist systems and how much things have improved (and they still have a long, long way to go) since they embraced capitalism.
In our capitalist system we have ups and downs. Recessions and depressions have always happened just as booms and times of high prosperity have. It’s kind of manic-depressive – the highs are temporary and so are the lows. Socialist systems eliminate these ups and downs and the uncertainty they produce. They do this by substituting chronic depression for the manic-depressive system. Thus they eliminate the ability of the wise and prudent to prosper in the highs and prepare for the lows. Everyone is equally poor all the time. (Except, of course there are always those who are more equal than others – see George Orwell’s Animal Farm.)
It may not be the most pleasant fact, but the fact is that people of all classes do better when there is a wealth incentive to produce products, innovations, and ultimately – jobs. I know there is the dream of a classless society, but it simply isn’t going to happen and all the social experiments in that direction prove that one may as well try to square the circle (it’s a mathematical impossibility, but there are always a few dolts who try to do it anyway). On the other hand, there is a vast difference in the standard of living of the very lowest class in our capitalist society and that of communist or socialist countries. In case anyone doesn't understand, socialism is just communism's little brother, and he'll grow up some day.
Obama and his fellow Democrat/socialists have been told by the American people for very long time, that our economy isn’t broken so don’t fix it. They have set out to break it so we will think we need them to fix it. Fixing it, they will bring us change – change I dread. For the sake of our brothers and sisters, for the sake of our children and posterity yet unborn, we must throw out the socialists whether they claim Democrat or Republican identity. We must find, promote, and elect, people who respect our free society and the capitalist system that has made it free and prosperous beyond the dreams of most people in all of human history.