Better Dead Than Red

In certain unscripted moments, Barack Obama has given us a glimpse of his socialist inclinations, but I wonder what percentage would vote for him if they truly understood the extent of his radicalism.

The current financial crisis has created a climate of fear and uncertainty and unleashed an unprecedented tolerance for large-scale government intervention, which is playing perfectly into Obama's hands. People are blaming this largely Democratic-spawned mess on Republicans because Bush is still at the helm.

I do not mean to be an alarmist, but I'm worried for the first time in my life that the election of a presidential candidate could lead to a fundamental change in our system of government. It is scary, just listening to the comments of post-debate focus group members expressing a knowing willingness to accept Obama's socialism.

Already some 38 percent of Americans do not pay income taxes, and Barack Obama wants to increase that percentage dramatically. In this class warfare the upper-middle class and wealthy are demonized as not earning an honest living. Do you suppose it has registered with Obama voters that Obama is deliberately turning the American dream on its head? Can they hear that his message to the middle class is:

Don't aspire to achievement, success and wealth because:
a) it is immoral to have more than others,
b) the government will take your wealth away from you and give it to others,
c) why bother to bust your rear end to make more when you can vote yourselves money from the public trough?

Obama let slip his socialist proclivities to “Joe the plumber” when he denied he wanted to punish wealth and insisted he just wanted to spread the wealth around. Joe was justifiably repulsed by Obama's cavalier attitude toward the American dream. Afterall, even “Joe the plumber” knows the stated purpose of the income tax system was to fund government services, not to redistribute wealth.
It's one thing to say that higher income earners should pay a higher percentage for government services. But Obama makes no pretense of stopping there. He told Joe that he wants to use the tax code to confiscate money from higher income earners and give it to others.
When Obama says he will cut income taxes for 95 percent of Americans, he is playing games with the truth. If 38 percent are already not paying, his tax credits to them amount to transfer payments from higher income earners, which are actually spending increases, not tax cuts, as The Wall Street Journal editors have noted.
Liberals, such as Obama, might deny human nature, but they can't change it. And human nature happens to dictate that people will not produce as much when you confiscate more of what they produce and give it to others. The working wealthy, especially Christians and conservatives, are some of the most generous people in the world, but we're talking about voluntary charitable contributions, not unconstitutionally coerced redistributions.
How many times must history repeat itself before we learn that socialism and communism cannot work. Liberals love to mock the trickledown theory, but they simply cannot refute the alarming truth:

“That people produce less when they aren't allowed to keep as much of what they produce”.

When do-gooder social planners try to control how much we keep, they guarantee that everyone gets less in the end because they shrink the overall pie.Socialism and communism have failed everywhere they've been tried in the world, yet die-hard socialists, such as William Ayers, (believing they are still smarter than God), insist on cramming them down our throats in the name of "fairness." Radicals always say that true socialism hasn't been given a real chance.

Well, if Obama is elected, socialism may get that chance!