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  • Video of Obama: Collectivism and the Common Good = Communism

    09/20/2012 10:54:29 AM PDT · by jdirt · 19 replies
    Why isn't this on the news? Would they report it if he said he was a socialist? Well I guess not because even after his redistribution of wealth video surfaced yesterday, the corrupt media did not report it. We are going to have to figure out a way to make people understand the media needs to go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsobm33ATC0&feature=player_embedded
  • America's Big Choice

    09/20/2012 4:26:28 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 11 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | September 20, 2012 | Ben Shapiro
    What happens when a free people decides it was never free to begin with? What happens when a nation decides that individual liberty is a myth, that the endless vicissitudes of life form an impenetrable wall to success, that we are all controlled by outside forces? We despair. We turn to the power of the masses. This is where almost half of America currently stands. It came out this week that Mitt Romney made this claim back in May, and he was exactly right. That doesn't mean that every American who doesn't pay federal income tax -- veterans, recipients of...
  • Obama Calls For Society Based On Collectivism, Hails Union Power In Uncovered 1995 Video…

    09/19/2012 2:10:31 PM PDT · by NYer · 12 replies
    Weasel Zippers ^ | September 19, 2012
    Obama calls for 'democracy with a small d'; Pushes society based on collectivism, 'common good' - YouTube Video Wealth redistribution, collectivism, unions . . . no, he's definitely not a communist. NEW YORK – A 1995 video depicts Barack Obama calling for “democracy with a small ‘d,’” while pushing a society based on collectivism and “common good.”In the video unearthed by KleinOnline, Obama hails unions and collective bargaining as encapsulating the societal “common good” of which he speaks.Obama urges society to collectively move “forward” – a word that would later serve as his 2012 campaign slogan.Obama was speaking in...
  • 1995 Obama: ‘The Entire History of America Is Towards Concentration of Power and Oppression’

    09/19/2012 1:51:33 PM PDT · by nhwingut · 9 replies
    The Blaze ^ | 09/19/2012 | Jason Howerton
    Both presidential nominees are facing more scrutiny for statements they have made in the past as the 2012 election is now less than two months away. Just this week, GOP nominee Mitt Romney faced criticism for his now infamous “47 percent” remarks, while President Barack Obama fought to downplay a 1998 video in which he voiced his support for “redistribution.” And while some Obama’s remarks from his past have gotten a lot of media attention, others have seemingly slipped under the radar. One of the videos that apparently went unnoticed is an unearthed clip from 1995, which originally surfaced sometime...
  • Video: Obama calls for 'democracy with a small d'

    09/18/2012 10:21:46 PM PDT · by jwsea55 · 29 replies
    WND ^ | 9/18/12 | Aaron Klein
    NEW YORK – A 1995 video depicts Barack Obama calling for “democracy with a small ‘d,’” while pushing a society based on collectivism and “common good.” In the video unearthed by KleinOnline, Obama hails unions and collective bargaining as encapsulating the societal “common good” of which he speaks. Obama urges society to collectively move “forward” – a word that would later serve as his 2012 campaign slogan. Obama was speaking in an Aug. 11, 1995 interview pushing his just published book, “Dreams From My Father.” At the time, Obama was a community organizer planning to launch a political career. Obama...
  • Jesse Jackson Lambastes Republican Class Warfare

    08/25/2012 10:53:43 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 15 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 25 Aug 2012 | John Semmens
    The Reverend Jesse Jackson laid into the GOP for “fomenting class warfare,” insisting that the “Romney/Ryan idea that people should be allowed to keep what they earn is divisive.” “The way to unite all classes is to put everything into a common pot and dole out shares based on need,” Jackson maintained. “This is the basic Democratic plan. This election, voters are facing the biggest choice of their lifetimes. Do we go backward toward a selfish, every man for himself system as the Republicans want? Or do we move forward toward a new tomorrow of equality and sharing as President...
  • Rand, Ryan and the Rest of Us

    08/20/2012 2:57:17 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 14 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | August 20, 2012 | Laura Hollis
    Public awareness of Rep. Paul Ryan’s familiarity with (and apparent fondness for) the works of Ayn Rand has now seeped into the academy. The Chronicle of Higher Education features an essay today by Professor Alan Wolfe, Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. This is an edited version of my response to Professor Wolfe in the article’s comments section. There are any number of intellectual errors in both Professor Wolfe’s piece and in the comments that follow, and they can be summed up thusly: we read the writings of all sorts of...
  • President's Refusal to Help Brother with Medical Bill “a Matter of Principle”

    08/18/2012 8:43:25 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 25 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 18 Aug 2012 | John Semmens
    President Barack Obama's youngest Kenyan half-brother George had to beg for help from conservative author Dinesh D’Souza because his famous brother refused him aid. Moved by the man's plight, D’Souza paid $1,000 to cover the medical bills for the man's son. The President's seeming callousness toward his own relative was defended by Press Secretary Jay Carney as “a matter of principle. Anyone who knows the President knows him as a man of infinite sympathy for the downtrodden of the world. Yes, he could easily have afforded the $1,000. But paying out of his own pocket would've undermined his belief that...
  • Economic Inequality is a Small Price to Pay for Staying Human

    08/05/2012 10:54:46 PM PDT · by neverdem · 11 replies
    American Thinker ^ | August 5, 2012 | Oleg Atbashian
    To paraphrase Baudelaire, the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world of the moral superiority of collectivism. According to Ayn Rand, if we don't convince the world otherwise, nothing else will work. Our greatest ally in this fight is human nature. Our greatest asset is morality itself, which is really, truly, undeniably, and absolutely on our side... --snip-- Generally speaking, it is a normal desire of all humans to achieve a better life for themselves and their children. In a free capitalist system, "greed-driven" achievers engage in lawful productive work, start businesses, and build things. In a...
  • Chuck Todd: Half This Country Believes In Collectivism

    07/20/2012 7:35:11 AM PDT · by governsleastgovernsbest · 48 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    Collectivism: a political or economic theory advocating collective control especially over production and distribution. If Chuck Todd is right, our country is in trouble. On Morning Joe today, discussing President Obama's "you didn't build that" remarks, NBC political director Todd opined that "half this country believes" we are about collectivism. View the video here.
  • Obama Certainly Built His Own First Term

    07/19/2012 6:28:58 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 7 replies
    Townhall. com ^ | July 19, 2012 | Nick Ryan
    American history is full of memorable campaign lines, from President Ronald Reagan’s speech on “A time for choosing,” to Senator John Kerry’s convoluted: “I voted for it before I voted against it.” Unfortunately, President Obama just unleashed a whopper that will stand the test of time, mostly because it accurately summarizes his entire first term. Speaking before an audience in Roanoke, Virginia, Obama said that, “Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen."...
  • Ayn Rand about Economic Education

    05/18/2012 6:39:22 PM PDT · by Misterioso · 27 replies
    The Free Market ^ | February 28, 1946 | Ayn Rand
    Excerpts from a letter of Ayn Rand to Leonard Read, the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, February 28, 1946 -- "The Free Market", 2001 No. 1You imply that the cause of the world’s troubles lies solely in the people’s ignorance of economics and that the way to cure the world is to teach it the proper economic knowledge. This is not true – therefore your program will not work. You cannot hope to effect a cure by starting with a wrong diagnosis. The root of the whole modern disaster is philosophical and moral. People are not embracing collectivism...
  • President Illuminates Philosophies of Government

    04/07/2012 3:48:00 PM PDT · by John Semmens · 17 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 7 April 2012 | John Semmens
    Gearing up for what promises to be a difficult campaign, President Obama laid into his critics saying “they want you to be on your own.” He contrasted this “social darwinism” approach to his “on us” philosophy. “The idea that Americans want to be left alone to pursue happiness on their own is clearly out-of-step with the way most Americans think,” Obama maintained. “People only go to work because they have to, not because they want to. When they’re on the job they’re watching the clock waiting for the workday to end. They look forward to the weekend, not the workweek....
  • Treason from Within

    03/30/2012 7:40:12 PM PDT · by Sioux-san · 8 replies
    World Net Daily ^ | 3/30/2012 | Patrice Lewis
    Many years ago in college, I took a required psychology class. One day we were told by our professor we had to divvy ourselves up into two groups for a particular project. I don’t remember the nature of the project, but I am quite serious when I say it took us three class days to divide ourselves. Much of that time was spent discussing all the hidden hurt feelings and angst that come with being “chosen” into one group or another, reminiscent of the painful procedure of choosing sides for softball in gym class. After one day of this ridiculous...
  • I Don't Want Freedom of Religions(Constitution)

    03/19/2012 5:09:03 PM PDT · by marktwain · 5 replies
    National Catholic Register ^ | 18 March, 2012 | Pat Archbold
    The attack on religious liberty is a two front war. One front you know about, the other one you may not have noticed. Language is the blunt instrument of choice with which the secularist left in this country bludgeons our freedoms. The secularist left has successfully used seemingly slight alterations in language to change the way ordinary people perceive an argument. Most people who pay attention to these things are very much aware of this tactic, as we have seen it so often. This is nowhere more apparent today than in the President’s repeated use of the phrase “freedom of...
  • HHS mandate could close 13 percent of the nation’s hospitals

    03/06/2012 11:15:27 AM PST · by ReformationFan · 15 replies
    Life Site News ^ | 3-5-12 | Ben Johnson
    The nation’s Catholic bishops have vowed to close their religious institutions rather than comply with the HHS mandate that they provide insurance coverage for contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs. In a column printed on CatholicNewWorld, Francis Cardinal George urged people to purchase a copy of the Archdiocesan directory “as a souvenir,” because in two years the page containing a list of Catholic hospitals and health care institutions “will be blank.” Ed Morrissey of the Hot Air blog calculated what it would mean if the Catholic bishops shut down all religious institutions that are ineligible for the conscience clause under the...
  • Obama’s new slogan: ‘Greater together’

    02/23/2012 9:04:48 PM PST · by Nachum · 46 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 2/23/12 | Neil Munro
    President Barack Obama has an emerging slogan — “greater together” — that he’s using to spur support among younger voters worried about jobs, education and debt. The collectivist slogan is appearing in more places, including fundraisers and in the title of the “Greater Together Student Summit Tour,” which is sending Obama’s deputies to colleges to galvanize students and youth. On Feb. 1, Obama used the slogan to spur support among young and old African-Americans, and especially African-American women. Less than half of younger African-American men are in the workforce, and the average wealth of African-American families was slashed by the...
  • The Heart of the Beast: Fabian Socialism

    02/19/2012 11:10:40 AM PST · by Yollopoliuhqui · 28 replies · 1+ views
    Silver Bear ^ | Nov. 17, 2007 | G. Edward Griffin
    The result of this two-party charade is that Americans – and those in most other countries in the Western World – are the victims of a great deception. Voters have been fooled into thinking they are participating in their own political destiny when, in reality, they are being herded into a high-tech feudalism entirely without their consent and, to a large degree, even without their knowledge. This is accomplished by the mirage of a meaningful choice at election time when, in fact, the major parties and their candidates are merely two branches of the same tree of collectivism. Voters today...
  • Collectivism Decivilizes When Government Grows

    01/26/2012 10:24:49 PM PST · by gabriellah · 13 replies
    TheCollegeConservative ^ | Lopac | Christian
    The recent NDAA Bill has been decried as an act of governmental tyranny. This is true, but the implications are much more than just a mere overstep. It is, in reality, a further step in the direction of decilivization. The word “collectivist” is sadly absent from the popular language of politics. Collectivism, in short, composes the political viewpoints that are focused on the collective, or the whole. This is starkly opposed to individualism, which is focused on the individual. Some of the political philosophies that are considered collectivist are Communism (and its various varieties), socialism, modern liberalism, and anarcho-syndicalism. The...
  • Dems Float “Reasonable Profits Board” Idea

    01/24/2012 9:49:47 AM PST · by John Semmens · 10 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 21 Jan 2012 | John Semmens
    A half-dozen House Democrats led by Representative Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) introduced a bill that would establish a new government agency aimed at insuring that no one makes an unreasonable amount of profit. The bill—the Gas Price Spike Act, H.R. 3784—is initially focused on excessive profits from oil and gas production. “It’s not that the oil and gas industry is the only one ripping us off,” Kucinich said. “It’s just that we had to start somewhere. Right now, we think there’s enough anger and envy toward this industry that people will more readily accept the idea of a government bureau to...