There are many flavors of socialist. Obama seems to be more of a national socialist than a soviet socialist, but he’s clearly a socialist. I suspect that deep down (okay, not all that deep), he’s a communist, and he sees national socialism as the quickest or surest path to communism. I pray that he is wrong on this question as on so many others.
I’m going to have to agree with him on this. Obama is putting the power of industry into the hands of a few hand-picked thugs that he deems worthy.
Some of it isn’t working yet, but if some laws are not repealed soon, it will get worse. The leftist theory of the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer will actually come true.
Ron Paul can’t see the forest for the trees.
This “support” he is giving the insurance companies is temporary and is designed to drive them out of business. Osama is already working on price controls. Between price controls and mandates AND government mandated profit margins, the insurance companies will bail, leaving the government to fill the void.
See how simple that is?
And why can’t Ron Paul say the word “fascism”
Actually I really think Obama’s policies are putting into place what could most accurately be described as Fascism if we are talking about political theory. I think he’s a Marxist but he’s taking this step along the way to state owned means of production.
What part of “Redistribution of Weath”, whether overt or implied, doesn’t Ron Paul understand?
What part of taking the Government taking over 1/6th of the US economy in the form of Unversal Health Care coverage doesn’t Ron Paul understand?
This is an excellent editorial which says something that needs to be said.
Corporatism is a system where businesses are nominally in private hands, but are in fact controlled by the government.No... Ron Paul has it bass-ackwards.
Corporatism is a system where government is nominally elected by We the People, but is in fact controlled by big business special interests.