Obama's return to fairness
The long-time basic tenant of Communism was the phrase “From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.” Here, thanks to Wikipedia, you will now see, probably for the first time in your life, just where that phrase came from. It was not, as many believe, contained in Marx’s Communist Manifesto. It did come from Marx, but it was in his “Critique of the Gotha Program.” Here’s the paragraph:
In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners:From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!
Personally, I have no doubt that Barack Obama is a Marxist. I believe that he came to Occidental college after finishing high school in Hawaii dedicated to the idea of fomenting a communist revolution in The United States. Obama is smart enough to know, however, that he can’t use the actual rhetoric of Marx to promote his agenda. Words have to be tweaked to meet the demands of our present political culture. So … at Tuesday night’s State of the Union address (it will be a campaign speech, not a State of the Union speech) Obama will use this phraseology … we’ve already seen it In a campaign video sent to supporters. In that video Obama says: "I'm going to lay out a blueprint for an American economy that's built to last. And most importantly, a return to American values of fairness for all, and responsibility from all."
The long-time basic tenant of Communism was the phrase “From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.” Here, thanks to Wikipedia, you will now see, probably for the first time in your life, just where that phrase came from. It was not, as many believe, contained in Marx’s Communist Manifesto. It did come from Marx, but it was in his “Critique of the Gotha Program.” Here’s the paragraph:
In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners:From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!
Personally, I have no doubt that Barack Obama is a Marxist. I believe that he came to Occidental college after finishing high school in Hawaii dedicated to the idea of fomenting a communist revolution in The United States. Obama is smart enough to know, however, that he can’t use the actual rhetoric of Marx to promote his agenda. Words have to be tweaked to meet the demands of our present political culture. So … at Tuesday night’s State of the Union address (it will be a campaign speech, not a State of the Union speech) Obama will use this phraseology … we’ve already seen it In a campaign video sent to supporters. In that video Obama says: "I'm going to lay out a blueprint for an American economy that's built to last. And most importantly, a return to American values of fairness for all, and responsibility from all."
There you have it!
“Responsibility from all” = “From each according to their ability.”
“Fairness for all” = “To each according to their needs.”
In uttering that “responsibility from all” line Obama is principally talking about his demands that the evil rich pay more taxes. Never mind that the disgusting top 1% of income earners pull down about 17% of all income, but pay around 39% of all income taxes. This is about class warfare, not accuracy, and Obama knows his pals in the elite media aren’t going to blow the whistle on this.
Tomorrow night Barack Obama will officially kick off his reelection campaign. He has already given us a sneak peak of his State of the Union address in that video I referenced. I doubt that he will highlight the many failures of his presidency – 1.9 million fewer Americans working, gas prices doubling, debt equal to our GDP. Instead he will focus on our apparent need to redistribute the wealth in the name of “fairness.”
The ObamaMedia reports that Obama will focus on “economic fairness” and “a return to American values.” That’s laughable. What does Barack Obama know about American values? He wasn’t even really raised an American. He spent most of his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia. His college days were spent in elite universities. Obama knows very little of American values, of what makes this country great – Freedom, liberty, individualism, personal responsibility, property rights and our free market system, just to name a few.
You do know that the broad use of the words “fair” and “fairness” come from focus groups, don’t you? Who doesn’t know that Americans believe in fairness? All you have to do is take that word and turn it against your opponent. You’re fair, they are not. Simple as that. Mindlessly simple, but we’re talking American voters here – voters who can’t even tell you the name of the congressman representing them in Washington.
In that same video Caesar Obammus said, “We can go in two directions. One is towards less opportunity and less fairness. Or we can fight for where I think we need to go: building an economy that works for everyone, not just a wealthy few. On Tuesday night, I’m going to talk about how we’ll get there.” His State of the Union speech is expected to be the “bookend” to the class warfare speech he made in Osawatomie, Kansas. That’s the one where he mentioned “fair” 15 times, but barely a word about freedom or liberty.
Here’s a little more from Ceasar Obammus, who recently commented on Republican criticism of his redistributive ways …
“I’ve been hearing a lot of these Republicans talking about, oh, that’s class warfare, and he just wants to redistribute, and doesn’t believe in work, and he’s trying to create an entitlement society, and this and that and the other. Let me be absolutely clear, I should pay more taxes, and folks in my income bracket should pay more taxes, and certainly folks who are making billions of dollars should pay more taxes, not because I want to take their money and just give it to somebody else. It’s because we have basic investments and basic functions that must be carried out in this 21st century if we are going to be able to compete.”
The United States already has the most progressive tax system among developed nations. The richest among us are paying the highest effective tax rates. Our problem is not taxes. Our problem is not that our government needs more money. Our problem is not that rich people aren’t paying enough money. Our problem is that Barack Obama has increased our spending and our debt at a record pace! He has now racked up more debt than George Washington through Bill Clinton COMBINED! He has increased spending by over 20%. And yet he claims that our problem is that rich people aren’t paying enough in taxes? Unbelievable.
