Russian Media Agrees… US Moving Rapidly Towards Soviet Style Economy
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, April 2, 2010, 10:39 AM
“We must not revert to isolationism and unrestrained economic egotism… Excessive intervention in economic activity and blind faith in the state’s omnipotence is another possible mistake. True, the state’s increased role in times of crisis is a natural reaction to market setbacks. Instead of streamlining market mechanisms, some are tempted to expand state economic intervention to the greatest possible extent… In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.”
Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin
Opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
January 28, 2009
This was really pathetic.
Even Russian President Vlad Putin warned the US about socialism last year:
Too bad the Democrats wouldn’t listen… Or, maybe they listened but just didn’t care.
Whatever the reason, the Russian News Service RIA Novosti still thinks America is transforming into a Soviet style economy, via Big Government.
U.S. President Barack Obama has finally brought America closer to European universal healthcare systems. It took him almost a year to persuade Congress to approve his healthcare reform. The House approved it by a majority of only seven votes (219 to 212) on March 21. The amended bill will be submitted to the Senate but this will be a sheer formality, since the Senate is dominated by Democrats and the endorsement procedure has already been agreed upon.
The 44th U.S. president could sign the bill this week. He will then go down in history not only as the first black president, but also as the first “red” president: Obama’s Republican opponents maintain that the bill is too socialist.
The European genes implanted into the American medical insurance system will not make it similar to that of Britain, Sweden or even neighboring Canada. Even Obama could not dare to be so radically socialist. However, his reform is truly historic, albeit only for America.
Europeans may mock it as pathetic since they adopted medical insurance systems decades ago. Russia also has such a system. Indicatively, one of the most vicious opponents of Obama’s reform, Republican Devin Nunes, accused the bill of continuing the failed Soviet experiment. He was overly emotional but there is a grain of truth in what he said.
Even Russia continues to mock the nation’s leaders for their failed economic policies.
How’s that for hope and change?
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 86 Comments
Kenny Solomon commented:
US Moving Rapidly Towards Soviet Style Economy Overall Governance.
There.
Fixed it for you.
Joanne commented:
Sad really.
jonyjoe101 commented:
The communists accusing us of being “too communist”. Even Hugo Chavez said to Castro that Obama makes them look they are too far to the right side of the political spectrum.
They trained Obama very good at Harvard, the best schooling that foreign money can buy.
bigkahuna commented:
I love it… The first Black( half white…wouldnt that make him gray ?) and the first Red President.
I would say that makes him not only two faced but in reality 3 faced!
He’s now the answer to the old question… whats black and white and Red all over ?????
Barrack Insane Obama !
Chippy commented:
“Touché”, Bigkahuna
JR commented:
It’s recently dawned on me that some of us were alive and aware during the period the Berlin Wall was in place. Our parents could point to the Wall, and to the totalitarian government behind it, as symbols of evil. People craved freedom so much they risked their lives for it. We understood this – it was plain to see. We appreciated freedom.
To the youngsters nowadays, totalitarianism has no evil connotation. There is no clear example of evil, like the Wall. The siren call of the nanny state is alluring to many. The youngsters are, in fact, voting for it, not realizing it’s a one way street, and that freedoms lost may never be regained.
ALEXISTAN commented:
You know what’s funny?
When I talk Russian to a Democrat and they pretend not to understand.
Sickofobama commented:
Obama wants to see it repeated!
It’s happening right in front of our eyes and who can stop the nitwit?
jonasay commented:
JR your point rings home to me. My Grandma escaped Hitler’s Germany with her family and came to the United States as an early teen. The last moment I had with my Grandma was watching the fall of the Berlin Wall and describing what was happening as she could no longer see the television. Her voice got real strong for a moment and said, “ I’m ecstatic for them for terrified for us.” I stood there puzzled and said nothing. I was a freshman in college and didn’t understand the context of what she was saying. After a few moments, she said it again adding, now you don’t know who your enemy is, and thus your enemy will come from within. I just thought it was impossible. Marxism is a proven failed ideology. How many more examples we do we need that Marxism will yield utter destruction upon society?
Combining my study of economics to my recent study of history keeps me coming back to the Kondratieff Wave Cycle. What is it with the fallibility of the human ego to keep falling for government solutions and government utopia every 80 years? 1930 + 80 = 2010. 1930 Progressive Movement; 2010 Progressive Movement.
FDR Progressive = Great Depression. Obama Progressive = ?? – History has proven over and over again, that Obama’s ideals are nothing new and yet will destroy the United States, and yet we do nothing.
The power must be drained from Washington. I am all for succession. The Marxists can live together and the Capitalists can live together with each group having no influence over the other. That is the only peaceful solution, I see if we continue on this path.
MLM411 commented:
Anyone else hear the unconfirmed report that Ayatollah Khamenei has been critically injured in a car explosion? Joel Rosenberg has this on his blog. He’s a pretty credible guy.
Wow, this could stir things up in Iran.
Finncrisp commented:
Barry is no longer hiding his core beliefs. He is certain he has taken America far enough that the momentum cannot be stopped. It is now up to us to climb back up that cliff we have fallen over and take America back from over the brink.
Opus #6 commented:
It is so sad.
Lily commented:
Obama’s Bolshevik Dreams.
bg commented:
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the irony is, it’s been noted how Russia and
China are transitioning towards Capitalism..
many article’s can be found here or here, &
depending on what one google’s, elsewhere..
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eaglewingz08 commented:
The only reason the socialists in Europe could make their debacle of universal health care was because Uncle Sam was picking up their national security tab. In fact if you look at all countries with anything approaching universal health care, their military forces are barely third rate. Why no conservatives are making the case that the socialists’ gun or butter argument will be reenacted in the US should this reprehensible health deform bill not be defunded and ultimately repealed, is a mystery to me? In other words, you can only have universal health care if you have no first rate national defense force to begin with. If the USA does not want a first rate military, then woe be the world and our country. If it does, then the people must vote out the insurrectionists who voted for this monstrosity.
bg commented:
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eaglewingz08 @ 4:32 pm #18
re: [military forces are barely third rate]
that’s his goal, well, actually, no military (per se) is more like it..
Breaking The War Mentality by Barack Obama March 10, 1983
[.] We try to talk to that frustration.” Consequently. the thrust of ARA is towards generating dialogue which will give people a rational handle on this controversial subject. This includes bringing speakers like Daniel ElIsberg to campus, publishing fact sheets compiled by interested faculty, and investigating the possible development of an interdisciplinary program in the Columbia curriculum dealing with peace, disarmament, and ‘world order. Tied in with such a thrust is the absence of what Don calls “a party line.” [.]
[.] Also, the New York City Council may pass a resolution in April calling for greater social as opposed to military spending. Things like this may dispel the idea that disarmament is a white issue, because how the government spends its revenue affects everyone.” [.]
In 1933 the German establishment thought it could use Hitler to restore a modicum of order to the confused and confusing Weimar Republic. In fact, Hitler did strengthen the German establishment, but not exactly in the way the bankers and businessmen had wanted; and now, fifty years later, it is clear who was using whom. Nevertheless, the Western World did not complain in 1933 because Hitler, though a fascist and a totalitarian, was seen, like countless American puppet dictators today, as someone who leaves the established order in place. [.]
why do you think he’s building civilian forces (scroll down) which will be working in conjunction with foreign civilian armies (ie: Venezuela) which will eventually be under the auspices of the UN..
Young Obama Wrote Article Blaming
America For ‘Growing Threat of War’
[If Obama still has this sensibility, he could be poised to take American foreign policy sharply to the left, notwithstanding the centrist foreign policy team he has assembled. Moreover, since Obama didn’t recognize the Soviet menace during the Cold War and blamed the possibility of war entirely on the United States, there’s good reason to think that today he could lack the moral clarity needed to fight radical Islam.]
oh btw: Obama’s “Ready Reserve Corps”
[‘‘(1) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the Ready Reserve Corps is to fulfill the need to have additional Commissioned Corps personnel available on short notice (similar to the uniformed service’s reserve program) to assist regular Commissioned Corps personnel to meet both routine public health and emergency response missions.]
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bg commented:
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bg @ #19
re: [.] there’s good reason to think that today he could
lack the moral clarity needed to fight radical Islam.]
he more than lacks the moral clarity..
albeit who knows how long it would take, he
is aiding & abetting an Islamist take over..
Inside Our Government, Armed With Our Secrets
From Influence to Insurrection
Terror czar deserves honorary membership in the Muslim Brotherhood
more here & here, and there’s tons more.. *sigh*
more links @ links..
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bg commented:
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eaglewingz08 @ 4:32 pm #18
re: [mystery to me]
no mystery to me..
ISLAM AND MARXISM – A MARRIAGE
MADE IN ALLAH’S SOCIALIST PARADISE
[It just so happens, that these tenets (multiculturalism, political correctness, and radical environmentalism) represent three of the
four pillars that are the foundation of an evolving epistemological,
ethical and political strategy that the socialist remnants in the world
have conceptualized and implemented to prevent their ideology
from entering the dustbin of history.
And, what is most interesting is that, even as they encourage and enable Islam with the first three pillars; the Islamofascists are aiding and abetting them by using the fourth pillar- Terrorism.]
UN
["My hope is that this charter will be
a kind of Ten Commandments" -MG
"The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in
fact become like the Ten Commandments" -MS]
Islam
[Today, the responsibility, which used to be laid at
the door of God, is fastened on the shoulders of man.]
“I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth.”
‘We are God’s partners in matters of life and death’
‘my individual salvation is not gonna come about
without a collective salvation for the country’ …
evidently Obama believes the New World
Order rests upon his messianic shoulders..
i think Bush fought against the plan the best way he could.. if so, then aside from all of the other reasons he went into Iraq, (imo), that would be the best way to throw a monkey wrench into the works (so to speak)..
albeit Obama is following many of Bush policy, note that everything Bush stood for (even against his own Democratic light crew) Obama stands against.. actually, i think Bush did better than i expected considering the circumstances.. imo he succeeded by a much greater degree than he failed)..
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bg commented:
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bigkahuna @ 11:23 am #4
LOL!!
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