Marxist-Leninism is Coming to America
Source: The New Media Journal Headline News
People haven't been taught why socialism is bad. We can no longer sit back, just go to work, and assume everything is going to be okay.
Do We Want A Fair Economy For All?
Source: RealClearPolitics
Politicians will say lots of things in the coming weeks, but they should be pushed relentlessly to address the bottom-line question: Do they believe that a fairer distribution of capitalism's bounty is essential to repairing a sick economy? Everything else is a subsidiary issue.
No one asked me how I feel about the rich!
Source: Newsweek
An opinion piece on how Americans view their super-rich. I do not share the writer's opinion, as expressed in his title, "Why American's Don't Hate the Rich".
One of the divisions between conservatives and liberals I have observed in my conversations around the net is conservatives="Do it your self no handouts" and liberals="Welfare".
How Obama blocked the wealth generators in Pueblo, Colorado
Source: Michelle Malkin
Barack Obama held a campaign event in Pueblo, Colorado over the weekend. The entire city was shut down — and many businesses were prevented from opening. As Obama reminded the nation during his amber waves grain infomercial last week, people are hurting.
United Socialist States of America
Source: The Nation
The McCainFoxDrudge campaign's decision to focus the last few weeks of the election on the combined spectre of redistribution and socialism (not, it should be noted, the same thing) is, I think, really dumb.
Fair Warning From Joe Biden
Source: New York Post
An Obama mouthpiece quickly dismissed the discrepancy as just another one of Joe the Senator's gaffes.
Joe Biden Makes New Gaffe With Fuzzy Math
Source: New York Post
Gaffe-prone Joe Biden put his foot in his mouth again today, mistakenly excluding millions of Americans from his running mate's tax-cut proposal.
Barack's Supreme Goal
Source: New York Post
Obama calls this income-transfer a "tax cut" - but, in fact, it's the very redistribution he's been talking about for years. Let's be frank: He truly intends to "spread the wealth" as he sees fit. He'll do that by:
McCain Campaign Pushing False Obama "Redistributive" Quote
Source: Talking Points Memo
The McCain campaign's efforts to portray Barack Obama as a closet socialist took a turn into the burlesque today, with the McCain camp falsely claiming that in a seven year old interview, Obama said that it was a "tragedy" that the Supreme Court hadn't redistributed wealth away f …
I got this email today and it was so incredibly apt that I thought I would share it with all of the folks here on the vine. Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign the read "Vote Obama, I need the money." I laughed.
Lessons from the Plumber
Source: New York Post
Who was the big winner in last night's presidential debate? That would be Joe Wurzelbacher - "Joe the Plumber" - who Sunday demanded that Barack Obama explain why he should pay higher taxes for "fulfilling the American dream."
Obama Fires a 'Robin Hood' Warning Shot
Source: New York Post
You won't find it in his campaign ads, but Barack Obama let slip his plans to become a modern-day Robin Hood in the White House, confiscating money from the rich to give to the poor.
Obama Tells the Tax Truth
Source: New York Post
An unscripted moment with an Ohio plumber produced a startling confession from Barack Obama Sunday: The Democrat's "middle-class tax cut" is in fact a scheme to "spread the wealth around."
Cash for Trash - Paul Krugman on the Bailout
Source: The New York Times
The Paulson plan calls for the federal government to buy up $700 billion worth of troubled assets, mainly mortgage-backed securities. How does this resolve the crisis?
French Politics: A Stunner!
Source: artgoldhammer.blogspot.com
Nicolas Sarkozy has decided to impose a 1% tax on capital--dividends and rental income--to finance the Revenu de Solidarité Active (RSA). This is a stunner.
Barack Obama's Stealth Socialism
Source:
Obama also talks about "restoring fairness to the economy," code for soaking the "rich" — a segment of society he fails to understand that includes mom-and-pop businesses filing individual tax returns.
Welfare State: A Nation of Thieves?
Source: Townhall.com
Edgar K. Browning, professor of economics at Texas A&M; University, has a new book aptly titled "Stealing from Each Other." Its subtitle, "How the Welfare State Robs Americans of Money and Spirit," goes to the heart of what the book is about.
One of the common defenses for federal farm subsidies is that without them, the family farm would go under. But farm subsides have been around for over 70 years, and in that time, the farm population has dropped from 25 percent of the nation's total to 2 percent.