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Barack Obama's Stealth Socialism

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY - July 28, 2008



Election '08: Before friendly audiences, Barack Obama

speaks passionately about something called "economic

justice." He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in

code — socialist code.



During his NAACP speech earlier this month, Sen.

Obama repeated the term at least four times. "I've been

working my entire adult life to help build an America

where economic justice is being served," he said at the

group's 99th annual convention in Cincinnati.



Obama has styled himself a centrist. But a look at those

who've served as his advisers and mentors over the years

shows a far more left-leaning tilt to his background —

and to his politics.



And as president, "we'll ensure that economic justice is

served," he asserted. "That's what this election is about."

Obama never spelled out the meaning of the term, but he

didn't have to. His audience knew what he meant, judging

from its thumping approval.



It's the rest of the public that remains in the dark, which is

why we're launching this special educational series.



"Economic justice" simply means punishing the

successful and redistributing their wealth by government

fiat. It's a euphemism for socialism.



In the past, such rhetoric was just that — rhetoric. But

Obama's positioning himself with alarming stealth to put

that rhetoric into action on a scale not seen since the birth

of the welfare state.



In his latest memoir he shares that he'd like to "recast" the

welfare net that FDR and LBJ cast while rolling back

what he derisively calls the "winner-take-all" market

economy that Ronald Reagan reignited (with record gains

in living standards for all).



Obama also talks about "restoring fairness to the

economy," code for soaking the "rich" — a segment of

society he fails to understand that includes mom-and-pop

businesses filing individual tax returns.



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.



Of course, Obama is too smart to try to smuggle such

hoary collectivist garbage through the front door. He's

disguising the wealth transfers as "investments" — "to

make America more competitive," he says, or "that give

us a fighting chance," whatever that means.



Among his proposed "investments":

• "Universal," "guaranteed" health care.

• "Free" college tuition.

• "Universal national service" (a la Havana).

• "Universal 401(k)s" (in which the government would

match contributions made by "low- and moderate-income

families").

• "Free" job training (even for criminals).

• "Wage insurance" (to supplement dislocated union workers' old income levels).

• "Free" child care and "universal" preschool.

• More subsidized public housing.

• A fatter earned income tax credit for "working poor."

• And even a Global Poverty Act that amounts to a

Marshall Plan for the Third World, first and foremost

Africa.



His new New Deal also guarantees a "living wage," with a

$10 minimum wage indexed to inflation; and "fair trade"

and "fair labor practices," with breaks for "patriot

employers" who cow-tow to unions, and sticks for

"nonpatriot" companies that don't.



That's just for starters — first-term stuff.



Obama doesn't stop with socialized health care. He wants

to socialize your entire human resources department —

from payrolls to pensions. His social-microengineering

even extends to mandating all employers provide seven

paid sick days per year to salary and hourly workers alike.



You can see why Obama was ranked, hands-down, the

most liberal member of the Senate by the National

Journal. Some, including colleague and presidential

challenger John McCain, think he's the most liberal

member in Congress.



But could he really be "more left," as McCain recently

remarked, than self-described socialist Sen. Bernie

Sanders (for whom Obama has openly campaigned, even

making a special trip to Vermont to rally voters)?



Obama's voting record, going back to his days in the

Illinois statehouse, says yes. His career path — and those

who guided it — leads to the same unsettling conclusion.



The seeds of his far-left ideology were planted in his

formative years as a teenager in Hawaii — and they were

far more radical than any biography or profile in the

media has portrayed.



A careful reading of Obama's first memoir, "Dreams

From My Father," reveals that his childhood mentor up to

age 18 — a man he cryptically refers to as "Frank" — was

none other than the late communist Frank Marshall Davis,

who fled Chicago after the FBI and Congress opened

investigations into his "subversive," "un-American

activities."



As Obama was preparing to head off to college, he sat at

Davis' feet in his Waikiki bungalow for nightly bull

sessions. Davis plied his impressionable guest with liberal

doses of whiskey and advice, including: Never trust the

white establishment.



"They'll train you so good," he said, "you'll start believing

what they tell you about equal opportunity and the

American way and all that sh**."



After college, where he palled around with Marxist

professors and took in socialist conferences "for

inspiration," Obama followed in Davis' footsteps,

becoming a "community organizer" in Chicago.



His boss there was Gerald Kellman, whose identity

Obama also tries to hide in his book. Turns out Kellman's

a disciple of the late Saul "The Red" Alinsky, a hard-

boiled Chicago socialist who wrote the "Rules for

Radicals" and agitated for social revolution in America.



The Chicago-based Woods Fund provided Kellman with

his original $25,000 to hire Obama. In turn, Obama would

later serve on the Woods board with terrorist Bill Ayers of

the Weather Underground. Ayers was one of Obama's

early political supporters.



After three years agitating with marginal success for more

welfare programs in South Side Chicago, Obama decided

he would need to study law to "bring about real change"

— on a large scale.

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While at Harvard Law School, he still found time to hone

his organizing skills. For example, he spent eight days in

Los Angeles taking a national training course taught by

Alinsky's Industrial Areas Foundation. With his newly

minted law degree, he returned to Chicago to reapply —

as well as teach — Alinsky's "agitation" tactics.



(A video-streamed bio on Obama's Web site includes a

photo of him teaching in a University of Chicago

classroom. If you freeze the frame and look closely at the

blackboard Obama is writing on, you can make out the

words "Power Analysis" and "Relationships Built on Self

Interest" — terms right out of Alinsky's rule book.)



Amid all this, Obama reunited with his late father's

communist tribe in Kenya, the Luo, during trips to Africa.



As a Nairobi bureaucrat, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a

Harvard-educated economist, grew to challenge the ruling

pro-Western government for not being socialist enough.

In an eight-page scholarly paper published in 1965, he

argued for eliminating private farming and nationalizing

businesses "owned by Asians and Europeans."



His ideas for communist-style expropriation didn't stop

there. He also proposed massive taxes on the rich to

"redistribute our economic gains to the benefit of all."



"Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the

government from taxing 100% of income so long as the

people get benefits from the government commensurate

with their income which is taxed," Obama Sr. wrote. "I do

not see why the government cannot tax those who have

more and syphon some of these revenues into savings

which can be utilized in investment for future

development."



Taxes and "investment" . . . the fruit truly does not fall far

from the vine.



(Voters might also be interested to know that Obama, the

supposed straight shooter, does not once mention his

father's communist leanings in an entire book dedicated to

his memory.)



In Kenya's recent civil unrest, Obama privately phoned

the leader of the opposition Luo tribe, Raila Odinga, to

voice his support. Odinga is so committed to communism

he named his oldest son after Fidel Castro.



With his African identity sewn up, Obama returned to

Chicago and fell under the spell of an Afrocentric pastor.

It was a natural attraction. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright

preaches a Marxist version of Christianity called "black

liberation theology" and has supported the communists in

Cuba, Nicaragua and elsewhere.



Obama joined Wright's militant church, pledging

allegiance to a system of "black values" that demonizes

white "middle classness" and other mainstream pursuits.



(Obama in his first book, published in 1995, calls such

values "sensible." There's no mention of them in his new

book.)



With the large church behind him, Obama decided to run

for political office, where he could organize for "change"

more effectively. "As an elected official," he said, "I

could bring church and community leaders together easier

than I could as a community organizer or lawyer."



He could also exercise real, top-down power, the kind that

grass-roots activists lack. Alinsky would be proud.



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.



Public opinion polls usually reflect media opinion, and

the media by and large have portrayed Obama as a

moderate "outsider" (the No. 1 term survey respondents

associate him with) who will bring a "breath of fresh air"

to Washington.



The few who have drilled down on his radical roots have

tended to downplay or pooh-pooh them. Even skeptics

have failed to connect the dots for fear of being called the

dreaded "r" word.



But too much is at stake in this election to continue

mincing words.



Both a historic banking crisis and 1970s-style stagflation

loom over the economy. Democrats, who already control

Congress, now threaten to filibuster-proof the Senate in

what could be a watershed election for them — at both

ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.



A perfect storm of statism is forming, and our economic

freedoms are at serious risk.



Those who care less about looking politically correct than

preserving the free-market individualism that's made this

country great have to start calling things by their proper

name to avert long-term disaster.



[If Obama is elected, with Pelosi and Reid heading up

the congressional houses, America is doomed and a lot

faster than the present rush to oblivion.



Read Ayn Rand’s book Atlas Shrugged. If the business

leaders will put aside greed and join John Galt by

stopping production, this socialist threat can be

overcome.



It did happen once and by one man – Consolidated

Aircraft’s founder, manager, and successful leader –

Reuben H. Fleet. After moving the employees, factory,

and operations from Buffalo, N.Y. to San Diego in

1935, Consolidated became the largest employer with

over 40,000 employees, the largest producer of aircraft

in Southern California, developer of new training

techniques that the workers used the rest of their lives,

and backer of one of the first large (3,000 homes) low

cost, housing developments in the nation. High taxes

and government interference in his business motivated

him to sell his stock and retire after World War II. He

lived for another 18 years, producing nothing,

contributing nothing, and San Diego and the world

lost. If many producers will do the same, socialism can

be defeated.



Remember, when the income tax was being debated in

1912, one senator wanted to put a cap of 15% on the

maximum tax the government could collect. He was

laughed off the floor because “if the government ever

tries to tax more than 15%, the American people will

revolt.”



Well, they are trying to revolt, now, but for “Change”

without understanding what this “Change” means.



The above Article should be read by anyone with

character and who can think logically. Then, it should

be read again!



The Spirit of Karl Marx is alive and well!