While the Presidential race is more of a national issue than an Arkansas issue, I’d be derelict if I failed to point out this editorial in Investor’s Business Daily:
Before friendly audiences, Barack Obama speaks passionately about something called “economic justice.” He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code — socialist code. …It’s clear from a close reading of his two books that he’s a firm believer in class envy. He assumes the economy is a fixed pie, whereby the successful only get rich at the expense of the poor.
Following this discredited Marxist model, he believes government must step in and redistribute pieces of the pie. That requires massive transfers of wealth through government taxing and spending, a return to the entitlement days of old. …
Throughout his career, Obama has worked closely with a network of stone-cold socialists and full-blown communists striving for “economic justice.”
He’s been traveling in an orbit of collectivism that runs from Nairobi to Honolulu, and on through Chicago to Washington.
Yet a recent AP poll found that only 6% of Americans would describe Obama as “liberal,” let alone socialist.
Only six percent of Americans are aware of Obama’s desire to exert such oppressive control over our economy? What does that say about our media? There’s much more, including a rundown of Obama’s socialist and communist political influences, so read the rest of it.
You’d think at some point socialists and communists would take basic courses in economics and learn that their desired policies actually bring standards of living down, not up. But no—forget freedom, forget results, forget empirical evidence; those who seek to control others are thinking of one thing: “I know best.” Such has always been the justification for tyranny, no matter what costume, like “economic justice,” it wears to slip in the door.
Kinkade editorial note: Is this one reason why elected Democrats in Arkansas—who have to maintain a business-friendly face to win office—have been slow to line up for the Obama-mania parade? Columnist David Sanders covered this issue nicely in a recent column, and columnist John Brummett expands on the tepid support for Obama among state Democrats here, though with more focus on cultural divisions.
