http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/06/remarks-president-economy-osawatomie-kansas
Excerpt from BO’s Socialist Speech. Read the whole thing (if your stomach can handle it above link)
…….Factories where people thought they would retire suddenly picked up and went overseas, where workers were cheaper. Steel mills that needed 100 — or 1,000 employees are now able to do the same work with 100 employees, so layoffs too often became permanent, not just a temporary part of the business cycle. And these changes didn’t just affect blue-collar workers. If you were a bank teller or a phone operator or a travel agent, you saw many in your profession replaced by ATMs and the Internet.
Today, even higher-skilled jobs, like accountants and middle management can be outsourced to countries like China or India. And if you’re somebody whose job can be done cheaper by a computer or someone in another country, you don’t have a lot of leverage with your employer when it comes to asking for better wages or better benefits, especially since fewer Americans today are part of a union. (They bought and paid for BO)
Now, just as there was in Teddy Roosevelt’s time, there is a certain crowd in Washington who, for the last few decades, have said, let’s respond to this economic challenge with the same old tune. “The market will take care of everything,” they tell us. If we just cut more regulations and cut more taxes — especially for the wealthy — our economy will grow stronger. Sure, they say, there will be winners and losers. But if the winners do really well, then jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle down to everybody else. And, they argue, even if prosperity doesn’t trickle down, well, that’s the price of liberty.
Now, it’s a simple theory. And we have to admit, it’s one that speaks to our rugged individualism and our healthy skepticism of too much government. That’s in America’s DNA. And that theory fits well on a bumper sticker. (Laughter.) But here’s the problem: It doesn’t work. It has never worked. (Applause.) It didn’t work when it was tried in the decade before the Great Depression. It’s not what led to the incredible postwar booms of the ‘50s and ‘60s. And it didn’t work when we tried it during the last decade. (Applause.) I mean, understand, it’s not as if we haven’t tried this theory. ………..
BO was saying Free Enterprise, and less regulations do not work, and never worked. Yet he evokes Ronald Reagan who believed Free Markets worked. Such a dichoctomy. What BO wants to replace this with is a planned economy like in Socialist Europe WHICH HAS NEVER WORKED. If it did, the workers paradise of the Soviet Union would be thriving today. The Socialist experiment in Western Europe is showing it doesn’t work. The term “Fairness” only means redistribution of wealth. That produces the Angels of the world with 15 children and demands it’s someone’s responsibility to pay her and give her a house for free. What the theory of fairness produces is it takes from the producers and gives to non-producers. It’s real easy to see the outcome of that, the producers quit producing. People have a free will. That allows their creativity to make new products and make jobs. Steve Jobs started with nothing but an idea, made billions, employed thousands and helped the world because he was free. If he was limited in his actions of “Fairness”, we would just have a sour apple core rotting, not an Apple corporation inovating everyday.
[...] The First Street Journal examines the speech by our Luddite like Socialist In Chief. [...]
Always strikes me that whatever BO says or does, it’s not his fault. What a DUD for leadership, if he thinks that’s what he is doing.
BO’s Brain:
College Mate: Obama Was an “Ardent” “Marxist-Leninist”
The New American, by Selwyn Duke, December 9, 2011
ropelight: I think there’s not much doubt about this, at this point. Perhaps if the media had actually done its job and thoroughly vetted Obama prior to November 2008, we’d have definitive proof.
Obama: “I Chose My Friends Carefully… Marxist Professors and Structural Feminists”In his memoir Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama admits that he chose his friends carefully
http://amerpundit.com/2008/10/28/obama-i-chose-my-friends-carefully-marxist-professors-and-structural-feminists/
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http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/coilofrage.asp
This is a good one from SNOPES
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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100422165333AATbJMO
So, you wanted informaiton on Obama’s Marxist Connections, were you serious? Did you really want that?
Be careful what you ask for:
Why wouldn’t Obama be comfortable around Communists? He is a Communist and that’s how he grew up, who he grew up with and who he’s never been away from.
This is a PARTIAL LIST of Obama’s Marxist connections and affiliations including the people he’s surrounded himself with. The whole list wouldn’t fit. The whole case for his Marxist philosophy as he’s exposed it would take a large book, which would be full of very potent and documented information, and much more will be reveled by the man himself if you watch his actions with open mind.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/06/obamas_alliance_with_marxists.html
Obama’s Alliance with Marxists
Rick Moran
Erik Ericson of RedState.com has a very detailed article today on Barack Obama’s connection to a neo-Marxist political party called the “New Party.” (I wrote about the New Party here.)
Basically, Obama sought out the group as a result of his work with another far left organization ACORN – a “non-partisan” acvitist group whose members have been convicted in several states of vote fraud. And not only did Obama receive their endorsement, he used many of the party’s members as campaign workers on his first state senate campaign: