So, President Obama stood in front of the Republican Caucus and told them there were those calling him a Bolshevik for wanting Universal Health care. He denied the claim. Well, I had to look that term up. As an Average American, I didn't know the subtleties of that term. Bolshevik: a member of an extreme Russian Social Democratic Party; a communist.
So, I know in my gut what a socialist is, but I wanted to look up that term so I had a full understanding of that term, too. There were several slightly subtle differences in the meanings, depending on the article you looked at. I'll list all 3 that I found:
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1. A theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2. The stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.
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1. Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods in owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.
2. The stage in Marxist-Leninist Theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved.
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An economic system in which the production and distribution of goods are controlled substantially by the government rather than by private enterprise and in which cooperation rather than competition guides economic activity. There are many varieties of socialism. Some socialists tolerate capitalism, as long as the government maintains the dominant influence over the economy. Others insist on an abolition of private enterprise. All communists are socialists, but not all socialists are communists.
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The scariest of these is number 2 of the middle one and the last definition. We've already stated that they believe in evolution, even in theories. They believe that we are evolving into something else. We believe we are de-evolving, eroding down the chain of evolution and collapsing into chaos. The only glimmer of hope in the last definition is the fact that we know that socialism doesn't work. We have the examples of history.
Now, how did President Obama Lie? He said he's not a far left socialist. He doesn't want to control the economy with a centralized government? What would you call calling down the Supreme Court in public and saying he would go around them and reverse their decision? I would call that getting rid of the checks and balances and setting up a dictatorship. We have checks and balances written into our government on purpose, just so that one branch of government can't get stronger than the other ones. One branch can't (or isn't supposed to) be stronger than the other ones. Congress can't bully through laws without the President's OK, and the Supreme court saying it's constitutional. That's in case we have a Congress and President controlled by one party. The president can't come in, wipe out all of the Supreme court and elect a whole new one who will agree with him. Why do you think they hold that post for life? From one term through the next? Checks and balances. Do you think the far left would let a Republican president do this? What if Congress were all Republican and blocked out the few Democrats and didn't let them decide any policies, but the President were Democrat, or Socialist? Would he stand there and say, Now you Democrats need to get behind the Republicans and be bipartisan and quit stalling and let them do their job? Heck no!
So, what have been his policies this past year? He's been pushing a health care bill down America's throat and trying to tell everyone that America needs it. He started out saying that everyone wanted it. Polls show that as high as 61% of Americans don't want it. The lowest number I've seen is 57% don't want it. That's still a high percentage. He quit saying America wanted it and started saying America deserved it. So, now he's our big brother and knows better than we do what we deserve? Don't tell me I will keep my health care plan. If it changes to be an approved health care plan, maybe I don't want to keep it. Maybe I'll want to change, and I won't have the option. Maybe, because of you, Mr. President, I'll be stuck with it, because it will be taken over by the government and the only option I'll have. Government health care is a socialist agenda. Strike one.
He swooped in and took over several banks...oops bailed them out. Lets see, that means the government could tell them how to spend their money, who to lend to, how to pay their executives, when they could go on vacation, for Pete's sake. Remember that? Government take over...oops bail out, of the banks is socialist. Strike two.
He swooped in again and bailed out the car industry. They, like the banks were just too big to fail. Americans would be in too much trouble if GM failed, so our big brother, Barack Obama, and to save us. Now he gets to determine how the big guys get paid. They get too big of a bonus, it's just not fair. And have you noticed how the federal government has suddenly started recalling, through safety regulations, so many OTHER car industry's car parts, which were not bailed out? If they have to recall so many of their cars, they might need a bail out, too. Taking over private industry ... oops I mean bailing them out, is a socialist agenda. Strike three.
Now, in his State of the Union address, he wants to create a program for every American to be able to college. That's the American dream, to be able to go to college. Well, work for it. National run college now? And he's not a socialist? That's a socialist program, too. Strike four.
So, how many strikes are we going to give him before we wake up and call a pig a pig? And I'm sure I didn't even get to all of his socialist agenda. This is just the blatant ones that I see, as an average American. Go back up and look at the definitions of socialist. It's government takeover of businesses. Look at what government has done to the housing industry. Look at how the Fed controls our housing market by controlling the interest rate. I always thought the Fed was part of the Federal government....not so. They are a private company. So, socialism is against private industry, right. Look at that last one again. Some socialism doesn't mind (or tolerate) capitalism as long as the government is the dominant influence, and they are the ones who get the profit. They can milk that government cow, but no one else can. And they'll pretend they're for the little people, but they would just as soon get rid of the little people. Do you know why they don't? If they did, it would get rid of the cash cow. It's kind of like, I'll milk the cow, but do I have to touch it? Or, will someone else bait my hook for me? I don't want to touch the worm.....
I fought in the United States Navy to defend my country from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. I believe Socialism is an enemy of freedom and I will fight it.
Lori Ann Smith
I stand for freedom, until they knock me down and I can stand no more
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