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Obama's Socialism - Good or Bad for America?
It has become obvious to a great many voters that the candidacy of Barack Hussein Obama is based purely on a strong advocacy of moving away from a capitalistic democracy and creating a strongly socialistic government and society in America.
This is fueled by not only his proposals for heavily taxing the so-called wealthy in America, but by his ever increasing promises and proposals for ever larger governmental paid programs, making people in all walks of life, more dependent on our government which will, without doubt, increase overall cost to the taxpayers and a huge increase in the size of the federal government.
Is Socialism bad because of the people in charge, or because the system itself is self corrupting?
The idea of Socialism is utopian. A society where everyone selflessly does his or her job for the common good and expects no more in return than anyone else gets, so everyone gets taken care of equally. The idea being to take from the current "wealthy class" and give to the "middle class" and the poor "for the common good" and to develop equality in our corrupt society. The age old have/have not argument which seems to appeal to those at the lower end of society.
In "small" communities of "like-minded" people this has even worked, and sometimes worked well.
There are two basic problems with a socialistic society:
Very few people in "any" society "think alike", regardless of the amount of "indoctrination", or "brain washing" spread through political doctrine or community agitation or "organization".
Since not everyone thinks alike, and since mankind is "inherently greedy" and "selfish" it does not take long for the controlling political leaders to decide that what they do for the community is worth more than what some or all of the other people do. Our country has been moving toward a socialistic society since the great depression and the long time liberal career politicians who have controlled our government for most of the last 50 years are perfect examples of that segment of society who feel they contribute more to society and are therefore "worth" more. We can all see this by looking at the attitudes, salaries and benefits they have voted for and provided themselves, which are obviously well in excess of what they provide for the masses in our society. Liberals have not been totally alone in this thinking, some Conservatives when holding the majority have also operated along the same lines and in the same fashion. History in our government has shown that the longer an individual holds office, the more protective of his or her self perpetuation becomes, and it is obvious their ideals of "serving the public" become pure rhetoric.
Once this happens others in the society begin to follow suit, and the system begins to break down quickly.
Socialism places a lot of power in leadership in an effort to maintain the status quo, so much so in fact that leaders tend to move the Socialist community towards Communism. Communism is a totalitarian system that places "godlike powers" in the hands of the government officials. Since power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely you eventually wind with people like Stalin, Mao, Castro, Hitler et al running for office, being elected and running the show. Even leaders who entered office on what seemed to many as "purely good intentions" soon become intoxicated with their "inflated worth", "total power" and become corrupt despots. While this is done in the guise of equality for all . . . or else, it does not motivate people to produce anything to share with the community, they think they are owed their share without excelling in their jobs. It removes incentive for people to be productive and destroys' any semblance of work ethic very fast. It also can be the direct cause of millions of murders of dissidents, students, artists, and innocents whose identities are determined, by the despotic leaders, to be "mixed up", previously "loyal people" the leaders grow suspicious of, and the list of abuses of power grows, as history has shown us.
The Socialistic system of government always corrupts itself over time, as we can now begin to see in our society and government today. We should and must conclude, that moving even further toward a system of "Socialism in America" could and would be "inherently bad" for America's future and the American Dream which has made our society the strongest in history.
If the "nature of man" were more pure and innocent and not controlled by "ego" "greed" and "selfish motivation" socialism might work, but that is not the case in America today and probably never will be. It is inherently wrong and irresponsible for today's politicians, community organizers and social agitators to promote such a society, by shouting from the rooftops that "America needs Change", as either directly or indirectly, it becomes a "cause" and develops false hope for the ignorant, the very poor, the downtrodden of society, who either don't know and understand history, or actually believe they can be better off in such a society.
A socialistic society without equal individual opportunity to advance and "realistic" incentives to improve one's life and provide for a better future for their children soon fails and total despair and lack of productivity cause a complete collapse of society.
We have all seen different styles of Socialism in Europe and around the world and while some aspects of what some peoples in a socialistic society "appear" to have, like free medical insurance and the like, none of these societies are or ever have been as strong economically as America. It is my opinion that, by moving closer to socialism and not reinforcing and building on the capitalistic ideals and strengths which made us great, our government, of the last 50 years, has greatly reduced our ability to maintain our economic strength and position as the strongest, wealthiest nation in the world today.
Americans need to fully understand that Obama's and the liberal career Washington Politicians who have sponsored his candidacy of "CHANGE FOR AMERICA" is "without doubt" a continual and further move towards total dependence on the Federal Government and a Socialistic form of government.
Think carefully, when you are deciding who you trust to govern America's and your children's future.
DO YOU "REALLY BELIEVE" A "CHANGE" TO COMPLETE SOCIALSIM IS THE BEST PLAN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE???
GOOD OR BAD, WHAT DO YOU THINK?
It has become obvious to a great many voters that the candidacy of Barack Hussein Obama is based purely on a strong advocacy of moving away from a capitalistic democracy and creating a strongly socialistic government and society in America.
This is fueled by not only his proposals for heavily taxing the so-called wealthy in America, but by his ever increasing promises and proposals for ever larger governmental paid programs, making people in all walks of life, more dependent on our government which will, without doubt, increase overall cost to the taxpayers and a huge increase in the size of the federal government.
Is Socialism bad because of the people in charge, or because the system itself is self corrupting?
The idea of Socialism is utopian. A society where everyone selflessly does his or her job for the common good and expects no more in return than anyone else gets, so everyone gets taken care of equally. The idea being to take from the current "wealthy class" and give to the "middle class" and the poor "for the common good" and to develop equality in our corrupt society. The age old have/have not argument which seems to appeal to those at the lower end of society.
In "small" communities of "like-minded" people this has even worked, and sometimes worked well.
There are two basic problems with a socialistic society:
Very few people in "any" society "think alike", regardless of the amount of "indoctrination", or "brain washing" spread through political doctrine or community agitation or "organization".
Since not everyone thinks alike, and since mankind is "inherently greedy" and "selfish" it does not take long for the controlling political leaders to decide that what they do for the community is worth more than what some or all of the other people do. Our country has been moving toward a socialistic society since the great depression and the long time liberal career politicians who have controlled our government for most of the last 50 years are perfect examples of that segment of society who feel they contribute more to society and are therefore "worth" more. We can all see this by looking at the attitudes, salaries and benefits they have voted for and provided themselves, which are obviously well in excess of what they provide for the masses in our society. Liberals have not been totally alone in this thinking, some Conservatives when holding the majority have also operated along the same lines and in the same fashion. History in our government has shown that the longer an individual holds office, the more protective of his or her self perpetuation becomes, and it is obvious their ideals of "serving the public" become pure rhetoric.
Once this happens others in the society begin to follow suit, and the system begins to break down quickly.
Socialism places a lot of power in leadership in an effort to maintain the status quo, so much so in fact that leaders tend to move the Socialist community towards Communism. Communism is a totalitarian system that places "godlike powers" in the hands of the government officials. Since power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely you eventually wind with people like Stalin, Mao, Castro, Hitler et al running for office, being elected and running the show. Even leaders who entered office on what seemed to many as "purely good intentions" soon become intoxicated with their "inflated worth", "total power" and become corrupt despots. While this is done in the guise of equality for all . . . or else, it does not motivate people to produce anything to share with the community, they think they are owed their share without excelling in their jobs. It removes incentive for people to be productive and destroys' any semblance of work ethic very fast. It also can be the direct cause of millions of murders of dissidents, students, artists, and innocents whose identities are determined, by the despotic leaders, to be "mixed up", previously "loyal people" the leaders grow suspicious of, and the list of abuses of power grows, as history has shown us.
The Socialistic system of government always corrupts itself over time, as we can now begin to see in our society and government today. We should and must conclude, that moving even further toward a system of "Socialism in America" could and would be "inherently bad" for America's future and the American Dream which has made our society the strongest in history.
If the "nature of man" were more pure and innocent and not controlled by "ego" "greed" and "selfish motivation" socialism might work, but that is not the case in America today and probably never will be. It is inherently wrong and irresponsible for today's politicians, community organizers and social agitators to promote such a society, by shouting from the rooftops that "America needs Change", as either directly or indirectly, it becomes a "cause" and develops false hope for the ignorant, the very poor, the downtrodden of society, who either don't know and understand history, or actually believe they can be better off in such a society.
A socialistic society without equal individual opportunity to advance and "realistic" incentives to improve one's life and provide for a better future for their children soon fails and total despair and lack of productivity cause a complete collapse of society.
We have all seen different styles of Socialism in Europe and around the world and while some aspects of what some peoples in a socialistic society "appear" to have, like free medical insurance and the like, none of these societies are or ever have been as strong economically as America. It is my opinion that, by moving closer to socialism and not reinforcing and building on the capitalistic ideals and strengths which made us great, our government, of the last 50 years, has greatly reduced our ability to maintain our economic strength and position as the strongest, wealthiest nation in the world today.
Americans need to fully understand that Obama's and the liberal career Washington Politicians who have sponsored his candidacy of "CHANGE FOR AMERICA" is "without doubt" a continual and further move towards total dependence on the Federal Government and a Socialistic form of government.
Think carefully, when you are deciding who you trust to govern America's and your children's future.
DO YOU "REALLY BELIEVE" A "CHANGE" TO COMPLETE SOCIALSIM IS THE BEST PLAN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE???
GOOD OR BAD, WHAT DO YOU THINK?
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