By Art Smith. Posted Tuesday, Oct 28, 2008 (4 weeks ago) at 11:54 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Economy, Featured, Socialism, society
As I’ve been listening to and contemplating the whole discussion around “spreading the wealth”, it’s occurred to me that when the wealth is being spread, there’s more than just wealth that gets spread.
That’s right, the poverty gets spread too.
Of course, calling it “spreading the poverty” might seem too severe, but here’s the thing: people have poverty, wealth, or something in between. If you spread one, you spread it all.
My preference now is to think of it as “spreading the mediocrity”. As we discussed in the past, providing equal access to economic resources (”spreading the wealth”, or “wealth redistribution”) is going to lead to a society that is motivated to meet the status quo, to do just enough to get by, to even lower itself to ensure that there is just enough work to either[...]
It’s been an interesting week so far as reaction to the whole Joe The Plumber escapade has heightened people’s awareness of Barack Obama’s agenda.
For the sake of full disclosure, and ensuring people don’t accuse me of taking his words out of context, you can see the full transcript of the conversation between Obama and Joe here. I’m going to focus on one sentence that Obama said:
I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.
One can argue a hundred different opinions on this topic, and there’s been a lot of comments around how this is a Socialist agenda (and many consider this to be pretty obvious). However, the new argument from the Left is that there’s nothing new here that make Obama’s plans more Socialist than we are today. Or more Socialist than we have been for nearly 100 years. I received an email
By Art Smith. Posted Wednesday, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:57 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Energy, Foreign Oil, Iraq, John McCain, Socialism
Well, it’s official. Barack Obama is now the first African American (am I supposed to still say that, or am I supposed to say “black” now? I can’t get this Political Correctness down right it seems) to be nominated by a major party for President, as long as you don’t include Warren Harding, Thomas Jefferson, [...]
By Bithead. Posted Monday, Jul 14, 2008 at 1:00 pm Filed Under: Accountability, Barack Obama, BitsBlog, Corruption, Crime, Current Events, Democrats, International Affairs, Middle Class, News Analysis, Socialism, Swamp Stompers
From the GateWay Pundit:
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New information reveals that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was indirectly sending messages to the FARC. The Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is designated as a terrorist [...]
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