csmonitor.com - 10/30/2008
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Not exactly, but his 'socialist-lite' policies should still be cause for concern.
hotair.com - 10/27/2008
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hotair.com —
If people thought Joe the Plumber was some
kind of stumble for Barack Obama, a rediscovered interview...
from 2001 should dispel any doubts about Barack Obama’s redistributionism. Seven years ago, Obama told Chicago Public Radio that the Warren ...
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Smells Like Socialist Spirit
washingtontimes.com - 10/28/2008
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washingtontimes.com —
By: golfballs03 Undercut the message? Obama claims that
he will give me a tax cut, but I...
am still against his plan on the principles of "spreading the wealth"! And the truth is, I'm not sure if it is of any benefit to me anyway. He would send me a ...
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Joe the Plumber says Obama would make US socialist
worldnetdaily.com - 10/24/2008
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Is Barack Obama a Socialist?
The New Editor —
"No," argues George Mason economist Don Boudreaux, "but his 'socialist-lite' policies should still be cause for concern."
Boudreaux writes:
If reckoned as an attitude rather than a set of guidelines for running an economy, socialism might well describe Senator Obama's economics. Anyone who speaks glibly of "spreading the wealth around" sees wealth not as resulting chiefly from individual effort, initiative, and risk-taking, but from great social forces beyond any private producer's control.
Turning America Into Europe
PoliGazette —
... “card check” — ensures the spread of a static, Euro-style workforce.
Eliminating the ceiling on payroll taxes changes Social Security from an insurance to a welfare program. Obama’s tax credits requires performing government-identified activities, the essence of a “directed economy.”
All this would transform the animating American idea — away from creation and toward protection
2. The second one was published at the Christian Science Monitor and was written by Donald J. ...
Why Call Them ‘Liberal’ When They’re Anything But?
Pajamas Media —
... .” Norman Thomas, who ran for the presidency of the United States six times as the Socialist Party candidate, is said to have stated : “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened.” It cannot be confirmed that Thomas actually said the above, but whoever said it was right. That day has come. David B. Jenkins is a photographer and writer best known for his award-winning book ...
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