This week the President of the United States declared class warfare, attacking millionaires and billionaires, oil and gas companies, people who fly corporate jets, yada yada yada. In other words, he attacks those who are successful, create jobs, provide the fuel for our homes, automobiles, planes, trains, and who provide the petroleum to create so many of the products we use on a daily basis.
Why does he attack them? Because they’re successful? Because they provide needed products for you and I to live the lifestyle we enjoy? Seriously, ask yourself, why does the President of the United States attack successful people and profitable businesses? I’ll wait a minute while you contemplate your answer.
If you came up with an answer, I hope you’ll post a comment and let me know why you believe the POTUS attacks success and profit.
My answer is he attacks profitable businesses and successful people because he believes a segment of the American population will agree with him – out of ignorance. Those who believe that somehow the United States’ economy is a zero sum game, that if I earn a dollar, it’s one dollar less that you can earn. He attacks success because he believes that if you are successful, you somehow make it more difficult for someone else to succeed. He attacks profit because somehow that profit belongs to the government, so they can take it and eat it up in the bureaucracy, and then redistribute what’s left to those who depend on the government for their lives. He is a redistributionist. He is a Marxist. He is a socialist. Pure and simple.
Marx believed that capitalism was unjust. Marx advocated that each should contribute to society according to their ability and each should receive from society according to their need. In other words, let’s create a system of government which will take from the producers and give to the receivers. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy describes it this way:
Much of Marx’s description of capitalism — his use of the words ‘embezzlement’, ‘robbery’ and ‘exploitation’ — belie the official account. Arguably, the only satisfactory way of understanding this issue is, once more, from G.A. Cohen, who proposes that Marx believed that capitalism was unjust, but did not believe that he believed it was unjust. In other words, Marx, like so many of us, did not have perfect knowledge of his own mind. In his explicit reflections on the justice of capitalism he was able to maintain his official view. But in less guarded moments his real view slips out, even if never in explicit language. Such an interpretation is bound to be controversial, but it makes good sense of the texts.
Whatever one concludes on the question of whether Marx thought capitalism unjust, it is, nevertheless, obvious that Marx thought that capitalism was not the best way for human beings to live. Here points made in his early writings remain present throughout his writings, if no longer connected to an explicit theory of alienation. The worker finds work a torment, suffers poverty, overwork and lack of fulfillment and freedom. People do not relate to each other as humans should.
Sounds very much like Barack Obama’s approach doesn’t it? Listen closely to the President’s Weekly Radio Address:
This is pandering of the worst sort. Declare class warfare regardless of the hypocrisy of your past actions. Read the words he spoke:
Right now, there are a lot of folks who are still struggling with the effects of the recession. They’re wondering how they’d deal with an unexpected expense if their car breaks down. They’re worried about layoffs. They’re not sure if they can help their kids pay for college. And for many families, these challenges were around long before the recession hit in 2007.
I ran for President because I believed in an America where ordinary folks could get ahead; where if you worked hard, you could have a better life. That’s been my focus since I came into office, and that has to be our focus now. It’s one of the reasons why we’re working to reduce our nation’s deficit. Government has to start living within its means, just like families do. We have to cut the spending we can’t afford so we can put the economy on sounder footing, and give our businesses the confidence they need to grow and create jobs.
Take a look at the chart above. Yes, Presidents and Congresses in the past have caused the problem, too. But Barack Hussein Obama has been profligate in spending. He and the Democrats in Congress since 2007 have put this nation at risk economically and, thus, have threatened our national security. At the same time, he argues that because you and I worry about how we’re going to pay our bills, we must now increase taxes on the rich (defined as?) and further redistribute wealth from the producers to those who buy into his Marxist, redistributionist rhetoric.
The nation cannot survive this ideology much longer. It will take decades or longer to recover from the madness of the past few years of Democrats and Obama spending our children’s future into oblivion.
