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Obama's Soft-Core Socialism (by Steve Forbes)
Forbes ^ | July 24, 2010 | Steve Forbes

Posted on 07/24/2010 11:24:29 AM PDT by SmartInsight

The truth is that not even the Franklin Roosevelt Administration was as hostile to and ignorant about free enterprise as this Administration is. Almost every action Obama officials take underscores their belief in the stereotype that businesspeople are mostly amoral, corner-cutting, consumer-shafting, pollution-loving menaces. The economy itself needs to be tightly controlled and rigidly guided by Washington mandarins because free markets are inherently and destructively unstable.

Incrementalism and the velvet glove over an iron fist are Obama's preferred methods. Thus, it will take several years for surviving health care companies to become full-fledged vassals of the federal government, which will dictate what policies are offered and at what prices. The new financial "reform" bill is taking the same approach--its language is intentionally vague in order to give bureaucrats enormous discretionary powers.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: business; capitalism; communism; dictatorship; forbes; freeenterprise; government; governmentcontrol; obama; obamacare; socialism; statism
Full fledged government control of everything is the Obama agenda, unless we stop it by electing a Republican Congress in November.
1 posted on 07/24/2010 11:24:33 AM PDT by SmartInsight
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To: SmartInsight

Soft core socialism is like “a little bit pregnant.”


2 posted on 07/24/2010 11:27:06 AM PDT by Gaffer ("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
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To: SmartInsight
Ever Had A Job? A chart that showed past presidents and the percentage of each president’s cabinet appointees who had previously worked in the private sector – you know, a real life business, not a government job? Remember what that is? A private business? •Roosevelt – 38%
•Taft – 40%
•Wilson – 52%
•Harding – 49%
•Coolidge – 48%
•Hoover – 42%
•FDR – 50%
•Truman – 50%
•Eisenhower – 57%
•Kennedy – 30%
•LBJ – 47%
•Nixon – 53%
•Ford – 42%
•Carter – 32%
•Reagan – 56%
•GHWB – 51%
•Clinton – 39%
•GWB – 55% And the Chicken Dinner Winner is……………………. •Obama – 8%* This is the guy who wants to tell YOU how to run YOUR life! ONLY ONE IN TWELVE in the Obama Cabinet HAS EVER HAD A JOB. *YEP, EIGHT PERCENT!
3 posted on 07/24/2010 11:27:16 AM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: SmartInsight

BUMP


4 posted on 07/24/2010 11:29:46 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: DontTreadOnMe2009

Where did you get these numbers? I don’t doubt them, but I want to be able to sight a source when I use them in an argument.


5 posted on 07/24/2010 11:39:14 AM PDT by TruthFactor (The Death of Nations: Pornography, Homosexuality, Abortion)
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To: SmartInsight

Other than Obama quitting, the only thing that will stop Obama is a SUPER-MAJORITY Republican Congress, but that’s going to be difficult to get.


6 posted on 07/24/2010 11:42:18 AM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (If leftist legislation that's already in place really can't be ended by non-leftists, then what?)
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To: TruthFactor

Check out www.swifteconomics.com

7 posted on 07/24/2010 11:44:29 AM PDT by C210N (0bama, Making the world safe for Marxism)
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To: Gaffer
"Soft core socialism is like “a little bit pregnant.”

Or--has a small internal amount of fecal matter.

Naaah! He and minions are full of it.

vaudine

8 posted on 07/24/2010 11:50:48 AM PDT by vaudine
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To: SmartInsight

We’ve got to kill the notion that Obamacare can’t be repealed. When anyone says to me I immediately challenge, “Why not?”

It’s not that it can’t be repealed, the lack of will is the only barrier. We cannot not allow them to kill the best healthcare system in the world!

REPEAL!


9 posted on 07/24/2010 11:59:23 AM PDT by Kenny
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To: C210N

Thanks for the chart and the link.

http://www.swifteconomics.com


10 posted on 07/24/2010 12:05:04 PM PDT by SmartInsight (Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~ G. J. Nathan)
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To: C210N

Chart Ping !


11 posted on 07/24/2010 12:34:21 PM PDT by onona (dbada)
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To: SmartInsight
Soft Core my foot A small reminder


12 posted on 07/24/2010 12:39:24 PM PDT by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, retired Military, disabled & Seniors)
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To: SmartInsight
Great article but the last sentence is contradictory:

Rhetoric and smiles to the contrary, this Administration remains resolutely statist and, when it comes to free markets, clueless.

If you're resolutely statist, I don't think you're clueless about free markets. Rather, to accomplish his/her goals a statist knows very well that free markets must be destroyed.

13 posted on 07/24/2010 12:54:46 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: SmartInsight

We are only seeing the beginning of Obama’s vision of America. If Obama were to serve a second term with a Democrat majority in Congress, by 2016 the US would resemble the former Communist East Germany. Obama has contempt for the Constitution and Bill of Rights and given another term there would be no free speech, guns would be banned and many Americans would be in “re-education” camps.


14 posted on 07/24/2010 1:01:46 PM PDT by The Great RJ (The Bill of Rights: Another bill members of Congress haven't read.)
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To: SmartInsight

I prefer the term “compassionate communism”.


15 posted on 07/24/2010 2:28:39 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: Kenny

Government healthcare will include health care rationing and denial of care, and fee for service will be outlawed. The practical effect of this will be that the government will have the power to forcibly prevent anyone from lifesaving care. If that isn’t unconstitutional, then our constitution has no meaning.

Philosphically, this is against the most fundamental of American values: the sacredness of human life and the right of the individual to the pursuit of happiness.

So the question should be, why would anyone who isn’t a left wing radical NOT want it repealed.


16 posted on 07/24/2010 4:19:58 PM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: TruthFactor

From another FR post

Sorry it didn’t format correctly, as usual ...


17 posted on 07/24/2010 8:06:50 PM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: haroldeveryman
So the question should be, why would anyone who isn’t a left wing radical NOT want it repealed.

Exactly! It makes me crazy when people try to tell me you can never turn it back. As if the greatest healthcare system in the world was just destroyed forever with one vote, without a fight. I say we fight and keep our healthcare the best, the system people fly in for from all over the world. It's worth fighting for.

18 posted on 07/24/2010 8:29:01 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: C210N

Great. Thanks for the ammo.


19 posted on 07/25/2010 6:56:40 AM PDT by TruthFactor (The Death of Nations: Pornography, Homosexuality, Abortion)
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To: SmartInsight

Big Brother government is at it again when they say we are looking out for your safety. Here is an example when the F**K word government is crawling into your life.

NO SMOKING
STOP EATING MEAT
CUT BACK ON SUGAR AND SALT
THAT “EVIL” CELL PHONE MIGHT GIVE YOU CANCER
GUN CONTROL
GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE

http://www.google.com/search?q=Government+control&hl=en&rlz=1T4ADRA_enUS410US411&biw=1024&bih=465&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=8PwVTu28D4z6sAPn0enUDQ&sqi=2&ved=0CFcQsAQ


20 posted on 07/07/2011 12:06:06 PM PDT by Red Barr (The liberals cant get over our victory!)
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