Posted on 04/14/2008 4:11:04 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
But will we all get free wooden shoes? Barack Obama didn't say. But he does have a plan to give people jobs. Put them to work . . . building windmills. His idea came in response to a question at last night's Compassion Forum on CNN from Jim Wallis, a leading member of the religious left whose focus is "social justice." Wallis wanted Obama to commit to a new War on Poverty.
JIM WALLIS: As you reminded us a week or two ago, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed 40 years ago, he wasn't just speaking about civil rights. He was fighting for economic justice. Was about to launch a poor people's campaign. Yet, four decades after the anniversary of his death, the poverty rate in America is virtually unchanged and 1 in 6 of our children are poor in the richest nation in the world. So in the faith community, we are wanting a new commitment around a measurable goal, something like cutting poverty in half in ten years. Would you commit -- would you at this historic compassion forum, commit to such a goal tonight and if elected, tell us how you'd mobilize the nation, mobilize us to achieve that goal?
Surely, you'd think, the candidate wouldn't fall into that big-government trap. Think again . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Obama commits to windmill-based War on Poverty ping to Today show list.
And he could call it a five year plan. I wonder if Obama means “Man of steel”?
Then there's the doubly-destructive whammy on jobs he proposes.
First, he calls for the the government imposition of a "cap and trade" system.
Of course not only does this cap emissions, it also has the very real potential to cap economic activity.
It's a formula for job desttruction. Next, he would take the $150 billion raked in through cap and trade,
and direct its investment in industries of his choosing:
hence those legions of windmill and solar panel makers.
He thus establishes a command and control model
in which those infamous Washington bureaucrats, rather than free markets,
determine the favored industries to which capital will be directed.
This is yet another formula for massive job destruction."
Going forward, it should and will mean, "Marxist Moron" to those with at least two remaining synapses to rub together.
There would be no $150 Billion from a cap and trade. There would be a loss of gdp well in excess of the 150!
The ranks of the windmill workers will come from the unemployed Belgian endive workers of Michael Dukakis fame.
Holy bell curves, Batman, how can that be?
Marxism by any other name...
I’ve now posted the video:
http://newsbusters.org/static/2008/04/2008-04-13CNN.wmv
Note also Obama’s reference to tax cuts for wealthy people who “didn’t need them.” So let’s see: from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. Where have we heard that before.
Shudder..So Marxist.
The irony is that Obama dissed small town Pennsylvanians who "cling" to guns, God, and bigotry", because government has failed them for 25 years...so, what's the new prescription he offers??..why, of course, MORE big government....
Thanks Ken. It was breathtaking to see Obama identify with a socialist like Wallis and reveal just how much he wants to expand government.
I sort of like the idea.
Great ! Feel free to pay for it with your own money !
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