Prescription Obama: Socialism for all

The Ellis County Press @ Duff Hale

Posted on Friday, February 27, 2009 12:55:01 PM by 2ndDivisionVet

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day, America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."

This was premier American socialist leader and thinker Norman Thomas’ prediction.

Those words have proven very prescient.

They didn’t resonate in the 1940s when Franklin Roosevelt exceeded all Constitutional authority in the name of ending the Depression and instituted numerous federal assistance programs.

Nor did they in the 1960s when Lyndon Johnson dramatically expanded the welfare state in his so-called War on Poverty.

When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 it surely seemed the 40-year trend had finally been reversed.

Tragically, such was not the case.

Much of the agenda revealed by the Obama campaign centers on its desire to install America as a socialist nation.

Oh, they don’t come right out and say it, however, a close look at the candidate’s positions on major issues reveals the underlying reality.

Take for example his call for nationalizing health care – a power grab by the federal government to seize full control of one-seventh of the U.S. economy.

Should that occur, it would be the most dramatic and irreversible step toward U.S. socialism in the nation’s history.

The centralized command and control nature of the new system being devised is being hidden from the public.

They are not asked by a now-disgraced and defunct press for the architects of this scheme to show the American people even one successful program the government has ever run.

Chaotic conditions in nations with centralized health care systems are not adequately and truthfully presented with their lack of care, long waiting lines and shortages of even the most basic care.

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