Can we call him a socialist now?
Barack Obama knows what made America great.
Redistribution and Entitlements.

CNS News reported:

CNS News posted the transcript:

“‘There but for the grace of God go I,’ we say to ourselves, and so we contribute to programs like Medicare and Social Security, which guarantee us health care and a measure of basic income after a lifetime of hard work; unemployment insurance, which protects us against unexpected job loss; and Medicaid, which provides care for millions of seniors in nursing homes, poor children, and those with disabilities,” Obama said. “We are a better country because of these commitments. I’ll go further – we would not be a great country without those commitments.”

This guy doesn’t even pretend that he’s not a socialist anymore. He’s just out in the open with it.

 

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  1. He’s not a socialist. He’s a commie.

  2. Muslim and socialist. Just gets better and better.

  3. BO says, “For much of the last century, our nation found a way to afford these investments and priorities…”

    Dude, that’s how it always works in a Ponzi scheme. It always seems to be working well in the begining. But the ending is a killer.

  4. Is that a shadow on his upper lip, or the beginnings of a mustache?

  5. Socialism is the fraudulent offer by the State to force everyone to live at the expense of everyone else. Those familiar with the Ten Commandments will easily see how it violates the Commandments that forbid telling lies, coveting and theft. Per 1 John 3:4, the scriptural definition of sin is being against God’s Law.

    On the secular side, economist Ludwig von Mises showed that economic calculation in a socialist commonwealth was impossible. This means that the more government intrudes into a free market and distorts it by regulations and bureaucratic edicts about prices and terms, the less that market is able to really know if it is economically sustainable. This is contrary to socialist dogma, for socialists scold the rest of us on the topic of sustainability. It turns out that no socialist economic scheme can function for long without substantial outside wealth because such schemes cannot be sustainable. (See Thatcher quip that socialism works until they run out of other people’s money).

    von Mises wrote his theory in 1920. http://mises.org/econcalc.asp

  6. Socialism doesn’t work for the simple reason that a planned economy with a few overseers cannot possibly know all the micro variables within any sector. They cannot have full knowledge of an industry and cannot react quickly enough to make adjustments. It makes more sense for a decentralized free-market system. Anyone who blissfully ignores the problems with Socialism in the past century are living in a fantasy world of their own making and are not dealing with reality. Obama’s candid admission counters all of his supporter’s lies that he was and is, a Socialist.

  7. So we were not a great country before FDR tried to make us into a nicer, more human Marxist nation? What DID we do prior to our previous socialist presidents redistributing the wealth?

    Funny, somewhere along the line I was of the opinion we WERE a great nation before the socialist/progressives took over. Or was I wrong? Did everyday Americans not cross the Rockies in covered wagons, moving to areas where grubbing out a living was a 365 day endeavor? Or was the telephone, the telegraph, the automobile and the electric light bulb all discovered after socialist social engineering tactics were in place.

    Ask a liberal how many people actually starved to death during the Great Depression and watch the blank look on their faces, or they will say “millions” not knowing the answer. Ask them how many people died during the Great Dust Bowl. It was not the redistribution of wealth that made is now live longer than our grandparents ever dreamed. It was the free market investing in R & D (you know, those evil drug companies) that give us extended life spans.

    Oh, and the next time some liberal points out what a great deal Social Security was, ask them what the original age of retirement was for the SS plan and what the age expectancy was for a white male in 1935. $10 will get you $20 they don’t know.

    There has never been a redistribution scan promoted by Democrats that wasn’t based on lies.

  8. I’m just trying to follow the logic here. He’s a socialist because he’s for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security? I’m not being sarcastic – I’m just trying to understand. Because if that’s the bar for what socialism is, the vast majority of America is socialist – and has been for many decades.

  9. So what Barry is basically saying is that America wasn’t a great country until the advent of social security. Well that’s pretty much in line with the standard Marxist scum narrative – America was an rotten country from the beginning and continued to be rotten until leftists came along and made it better. Thanks for that you jug eared lowlife.

  10. Actually, I would have to disagree on that one.

    The “I’ll go further – we would not be a great country without those commitments” statement doesn’t prove he is a socialist/communist at all, he might honestly believe that our desire to help one another in times of need is a huge part of what makes us great.

    now…

    “spending reductions in the tax code”

    …THATS the statement that shows he is Socialist/Communist

  11. Is he including the millions in section eight housing and government projects? Because, go figure, every city in America has a crime and illegal drug problem that is found wherever there is government housing…The baby mamas with the housing support the crackheads, pushers and violent criminals. Moreover, the males have no incentive to work because they live off the mothers and their bastard children…Just checking Obama if this is part of the success of socialism?

  12. i don’t know what country obama is living but the good places to live in america are where the fewest people rely on the government for their well-being. the worst places in america to live are where people rely the most on government for the well-being.

  13. Disability fraud is another scam financed by the Federal government…I can name five persons I know on disability who get along quite well and work for cash money because they got their disability…I rent housing for a living and the number of seemingly healthy people showing up with disability checks is astounding…

  14. @#9Bill Duhemel: No, I think you’re confusing Obama the person with America the country. America isn’t a socialist country, it’s a country that has some disastrous socialistic policies which are 100% funded by the extorted proceeds of capitalism.

    Obama, however, is an outright socialist and has been his whole life. No matter how much he pays lip service to “free competition” for political purposes, it is obvious that he believes capitalism to be inherently unfair. When Obama thinks about “what makes America great,” he doesn’t pick the Constitution, which the Founding Fathers created in order to protect the individual from the tyranny of the state and the collective. In fact, he doesn’t think anything about America is great aside from it’s socialistic government programs (see his quote above). Think about that – there are so many things about America that a true patriot could point to as the things that make America great. Its individualistic culture, its focus on liberty, the foundations of its political system, its history of innovation, its history of (legal) immigration, its multitude of “rags to riches”stories, its military prowess, ending WWII, abolishing slavery both home and abroad….my God, I could go on all night. Obama doesn’t think any of this makes America “great” and instead picks the things that tickle his socialist fancy: anything that involves stealing from Peter and giving to Paul. Take away wealth redistribution, and Obama doesn’t see anything “great.”

    I’m sorry but if you don’t understand the implications of what he said above, then you need brain surgery.

  15. #9 people are FORCED into medicare and social security. in the free country the party of choice will not allow you the choice of participating or not in these programs. if we are socialist it is because we have it imposed on us so-called free people.

  16. Socialists obviously don’t believe that “all men are equal”. If you measure equality by how much stuff a person has, then no person has ever been equal to any other.

    FREE people live by a predetermined set of rules, and those rules apply to every person the same way. Unlike ‘Legal Justice’, ‘Social Justice’ has no static rules. The rules change with every new interest group, and every new situation.

    Legal Justice is decided in a courtroom. Social Justice is decided in a legislature. (No Separation of Powers) The rules of Social Justice are created only AFTER guilt has been determined (No Due Process), and punishments are imposed in anticipation of future crimes. Guilt is determined by which interest group a person belongs to.
    .

  17. @#6 rbosque
    “Socialism doesn’t work for the simple reason that a planned economy with a few overseers cannot possibly know all the micro variables within any sector.”

    For some reason, this instantly reminded of one of my all-time favorite movie lines:

    “He’s afflicted with another disease that doesn’t exist in Moscow… starvation”
    (from Dr. Zhivago for those who dont know)

  18. So, the millions of illegal alien anchor babies born in US hospitals is part of what makes us great??? US taxpayers and every person who uses the medical industry, and pays for it, has to subsidize the millions who don’t pay, don’t care, and don’t even belong in this country…Socialists like Obama have created doomsday clocks that are ripping the Republic apart…The Federal government’s policy toward foreign invaders is one of the doomsday clocks….Since when is it the Federal government’s job to give away our blood, sweat and National Treasure?

  19. I see our libtard friends have shown up to pretend that Opie isn’t a Commie and that they don’t recognize it.
    Sad.
    Pathetic.
    But that’s what libtards do. They lie.

  20. its over they got us beat its to many, were like damned custer they got the commies , the media , jon stewart ,tom brokaw , charles barkley fidel castro ,matt lauer,the mexicans the murderers the rapists the homos the atheist the bruce sprinsteens the rosie ofats the hugo chavez the teacher the firemen the cops the unemployed the socialsecurity recipients the blacks the children the lazy the non workers the disabled the toothless prostitutes its too many they got the drop on us

  21. Scott, the bigger the MASSIVE GOVT. the more control the ELITE have. Obama is absolutely a Marxist. There is no doubt. Most libtards are just not smart enough to see or understand it. They are lazy and paid. They are fat and stupid.

  22. The man has marinated in Marxist philosophy his entire life.

  23. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhKuunp8D8&feature=player_embedded

    Obama also admitted that he was not an American and that he was born in Kenya. Check out the above video.

  24. No one asked any questions. Every Libs slept well with the thought that they had broken the color barrier, that was 08. Wonder how they feel now that Obama has turned out to be their worst nightmare? For the Libs the belief is there is always a Messiah coming to save them.

  25. Ha, just saw this line from President Preposterous’s speech:

    “[The rich] want to give back to the country that’s done so much for them. Washington just hasn’t asked them to.”

    How sad, all these rich folks wanting to give but they haven’t been asked.

    Well what do you know you can donate to Fedzilla right here:

    https://www.pay.gov/paygov/forms/formInstance.html?agencyFormId=23779454

  26. wow im 42 ive owned my own ac shop since i was 24

    when i was a little boy i begged every one for a job

    i thought you were to die with youre boots on

    i just fought my beautiful dad for being such a lazy ass ss recipient/dependent

    am i going to hell?

  27. jomojava. Obama is a pychologically and philosophically WARPED puppy. I see right through Opie the Fraud. He is angry, unfulfilled, and he is driven by NEGATIVE vibes. His parents were PATHETIC LOSERS. All 3 of them.

  28. so many people i know are dependent on handouts

    its like im in a time warp

    this is not the america i learned about when i was in school in the 70s and 80s

    theres too many on the titty we lost

  29. NJbosscomrade. Our Fathers raise us to be men. When we become MEN, sometimes the very values that Dad wanted us to live by, were not the ones HE ACTUALLY LIVED BY. In my day, I’ve found that my 2 older siblings are not my older siblings. I AM THEIR BIG BROTHER. And more to your point, I once pointed out to my own beloved DAD, that his job was DAD, mine was SON.
    They are reversed roles now. If my Dad fails to be DAD, I’ll tell him.

  30. Ben Franklin said, “beware of the orator for he speaks an ocean of words with and ounce of truth.” Pretty much sums up Obama and the rest of the idiots in Washington.

  31. gus thank you man i needed you

  32. njbosscomrade! You are welcome. Your question and post was obviously heart felt. I’m glad I could be of service.

  33. hey gus i was born 2 blocks south of the border in 68 my dad walked me over then it was a different time i love my dad he made me a man but now i have to tell him hes a pus
    i feel like crap

  34. #30

    With the exception of the elderly and the truly disabled, those living off hand-outs have been sold a bill of goods…Living off welfare is a pathetic existence. Just enough money to sit home and watch Jerry Springer all day but not much else…It is a soul destroying lifestyle…By contrast, working hard and living well is a recipe for true happiness. Once again, the government is just selling a $hit sandwich…

  35. im drinking a red burgandy wine it helps with the pain of seeing so many freeloaders

    i feel its to late to many moochers

  36. this struggle reminds me of lessons we learned in the 70s about the war of the states
    how it divided father and sons brother v brother ami wrong?

  37. NJComrade. Look at it this way. You DAD made you a MAN. Your problem and mine as well (once upon a time), is that you have to show your DAD, that your DAD was right. You are the proof. Friend we have MILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLIONS of normal folks who are like SLAVES or HEROIN ADDICTS to the GOVT. Tell you DAD that, he taught you NOT TO BE A PUSS. And then show him that you are not a puss. Ask him if HE wants to be the PUSS that he showed you NOT TO BE.

  38. true gus but he has surrendered the father i love is a puss

  39. one day i caught him crying outside
    he told me can you believe the racist hate there saying about our leader?
    i reminded him that i heard him cuss out in spanish gw bush for 8 years

    he quit talking to me for 4 months

  40. No NJCOMRADE, you are not experiencing the BROTHER V BROTHER. You are disappointed in your Father, at a time when MEN, like you and I and like thinking patriots……need to MAN UP.
    The country of our FATHERS will not be the GREAT NATION it has been, if we don’t put on the feckin’ brakes RIGHT NOW.

  41. NJComrade. He needs a reality check. Obama HATES what you and I live and stand for. I recognized it long before Obama lied and was carried by the MEDIA into the White House.

    Obama has PROFITED vis a vis RACE. And Obama has USED RACE. Ask your FATHER to acquaint himself with JEREMIAH WRIGHTS church. Obama went there for 20 years.
    Ask your DAD, how OBAMA has provided ANYTHING to mankind.

  42. Does anyone, anywhere, remember the last president who spoke about unleashing the power of free markets, freedom, entrepreneurship, innovating new products and expanding markets or any such rhetoric? Seriously, speaking such language other than crap about green technologies which favor politically correct or connected cronies?

    We are enduring the forces of darkness today embodied in the left and islam, the fight of which will be for the survival of our culture and civilization. I’m not sure we can actually wait for election cycles to come and go. The pure crap Obama spouts today only delays what we know will be the inevitable economic and military nightmare he’s fostering. We’ll be so weakened and distracted by our financial woes, we won’t be able to respond to our enemies out there who see the folly of our political “leadership.” They’re like insects and diseases waiting for the tree that’s weakened by stress, ready to move in at the opportune time. The present president cannot possibly be so blinded by his radical ideology that he cannot see the enemies we face abroad, and still believe social programs that subsidize societal leeches is the strength of our country. He regularly receives intelligence that indicates the seriousness of our enemies and the debt he is fostering with such insane spending. He simply cannot be that dumb.

  43. i know that gus but i instincively knew it when i was 6
    and the took out nixon
    but it seems ignorance is on the march

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  45. the more people go to college the ___________ ? we get?

  46. Regular Guy, I believe the answer to your question is Ronald Reagan. And if I may, G.W.BUSH, or DUBYA as he is affectionately known, was of he same Patriotism.

    Obama is a fuggin disgrace.

  47. Actually, WTF Hussein is a Marxist, as are his internationalist comrades.

  48. actually , i hope they do tax the actors and singers first

  49. tax the basketball players first!

  50. tax the hippie rockers second

  51. tax paul macartney 3rd

  52. tom brokaw 4th

  53. jon stewart 5th

  54. france 6th

  55. snoop drake 7th

  56. Obama is a priest in a church worshiping Social Justice.

  57. “the more people go to college the ___________ ? we get?”

    If everyone went to college, overall education would probably decline and degrees would become useless.

    I’ll explain. First, the second part shouldnt really need much explanation anyway – if everyone has something then that something is just common and becomes an indication of the normal, not of significance.

    On the education decline part, you have to factor in the unintended consequences. Things like lack of space to house the gigantic influx of students. All of a sudden you would have to open more schools (thinning out the teachers pool) and expand class sizes (thinning out the teacher/student interaction). This of course would mean higher running costs (esp if they are union employees) and since most people don’t go because they can’t afford college, it will come at the expense of tax payers. Your taxes would have to go up, but there is no way to really ever cover it all so we would also have to reduced standards – similar to what has happened in our K-12 education. Now, since people will have the option of the free/super-cheap Government education, and since everyone will end up with degrees making them less valuable, current colleges would probably need to reduce costs to compete as well – resulting in lower standards there too; though they will continue to receive the upper-class students, and will function similar to current private K-12 schools. Then, also similar to what has happened in K-12, we will have to dumb-down higher-education to appease those who learn at slower rates and/or don’t take schooling serious.

    Eventually, everyones college-level education would be decreased, with the rich just less affected because of their cash. And while everyone would theoretically (not necessarily practically though) have a slightly higher education level then they currently do, having a degree would no-longer make it easier to find a job – just like having a High-School degree has become just an expected for almost all jobs at this point. If the higher-education provided was based on basics classes and since the education level of them would be lower, people also would be unlikely to produce many more ideas to help society. And because of the much-higher cost burden which would have to be put on everyone, the gap between the rich and poor is likely to widen as the lower classes will struggle to pay their share. Then, eventually, people will stop appreciating the education; the quality will go down more to try to keep people interested and costs will go up as students keep becoming even harder to teach and control. It would become another chore-like situation, just like K-12 is for most, and people will pay less and less attention over time.

    But its all a pipe-dream anyway since we can’t even come up with a way to get kids graduating HS at a positive rate with any real comprehension. In fact, here in CA, there are places where the graduation rate is in the low 40-high 30s while most aren’t proficient in even basic reading and math. Its the same results always experienced when something special becomes socialized or the expected norm – people stop appreciating it and overall quality goes down.

    There was a time when everyone had to learn basics on their own to provide for themselves, while only the rich or lucky really got much of an education. Then, to be “fair”, everyone was given the “opportunity” to get education; so the quality tanked while interest similarly plummeted. All the while, costs get out of control and dependence slowly replaces the initial intent of more production. And in the end, people are less educated and more dependent then they were when it all started – read the more popular books from different points in history and you can see the regression in peoples thought process.

  58. Let’s look at some GOP Neocon Socialist Communism, shall we…

    Big Oil 60 Billion per year
    Big Pharma 200 Billion per year
    Pentagon Waste 300 Billion per year
    Big Insurance 200 Billion per year
    Wall Street Bailout 800 Billion

    How is it ok with average Americans that these huge industries
    get to Privatize Profit and Socialize Losses?
    It’s UN-AMERICAN!!!

  59. OC Rick #62

    Profit is good. Bail outs are bad.
    Bail outs are socialism.
    If you mess up your profits, then you go out of business or let someone else buy what you cannot run. That’s capitalism. It works EXTREMELY WELL.
    Bail outs hurt everyone. It costs everyone money and KEEPS THE FAILED BUSINESS MODEL IN TACT TO KEEP FAILING.

    If you don’t think profits are good, then I want you as an employee who will not profit from a paycheck.

  60. Averagemelon, you have to giver OC Rick a break here. Like other liberal posters here, he is confused by terms like Capitalism,Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Democracy, etc. and misuses them.
    But it doesn’t help that they point to W’s last two years in office to actions that were indeed wealth distributions and bailouts. What they conveniently overlook is that Bush’s last two years in office, he had a Democrat House and a Democrat Senate, and he was never a rock-ribbed Conservative to begin with, so it wasn’t hard for him to go along with the push from the Dems for these bailouts. The Dems (who caused the crisis, but that’s another post) pushed on Bush to take these actions and then beat him over the head with them.

    NOw what I want to know from this new Obama quote is:
    He says we would not be a great country without these entitlements.
    Doesn’t he realize these entitlements were implemented from FDR onward?
    So is Obama saying we were not a great nation from 1776 until 1933? Only after these Socialists programs were implemented did we become great? Really, Obama?

    Funny reasoning in this thread:
    Bill Duhemel “What do you mean Socialism? Just because he’s for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security?”
    Liberals won’t call it Communism when we’re all living on Communes.
    Hey Earth to Bill, programs that start with “Social…” are Socialist in nature, by definition.
    and Medicare/Medicaid, Obamacare, Schip, etc are “Social Medicine” programs.

  61. Why isn’t the TEA party planning multiple protests to ONE WTF gosh awful deceitful leadership

  62. OC Rick, your understanding of the problems and cause is laughable. You ignorance of basic economics and politics is stunning.

    We’re not here to educate you, but if you would read more and shut your ignorant pie hole you could learn and not be thought of as such an idiot.

    powder is dry

  63. Obama himself has been on the other end of redistribution everything in his life has been giving to him never had to work for it.

  64. Yessir, socialism, where success is scorned and failure rewarded. Will our Kenyan twit be back for round two? If the stupid Republicans don’t get their act together, he sure as hell will. Purge the republican sheep leadership. Send them to Novaya Zemlya.

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  66. Paranoia is a really sad thing. This President has not lied, has not deceived, and has been straight with the American people from the start. You are not telling the truth when you say “In the United States there is great deference paid to the occupant of the
    White House.” Since before this man was even nominated by his party the Right Wing attacks and lies about him have been incessant. You accused him of “palling around with terrorists” yet he has done more to keep this nation safe FROM terrorists than the previous administration ever did. You accused him of “wanting to take away everyone’s guns” and two and a half years later, when nothing of the kind has even been suggested, you continue to repeat the lie. You call him a “socialist” and a “communist” and yet you refuse to acknowledge that nothing of the kind is happening. You accused him of creating “Death Panels” when the facts are that he has ELIMINATED them. You even accuse him of lying about his own birth, when a mountain of evidence to the contrary has proven you wrong for three years. And as far as the economy, you have seen with your own eyes the harm that endless tax cuts for millionaires has caused and you have seen the devastating attacks from the Right on the rights of individual Americans, yet you actually support those who are taking your rights from you and attacking the man who stands up for those rights.

    And the worst part is the racism you people on the Right throw into every discussion of every issue. It is not the President who “relies on his skin color to intimidate, either outright or by insinuation, those who oppose his radical agenda”, it is you who rely on HIS skin color to lie, attack and insult.

    None of you even listened to what the President had to say about our economy. You attack one of the most honest and straightforward statements any President has even given the American people. You cannot point to a single lie in the entire speech, yet without even listening you attack. You actively campaign against your own interests and attack the man who protects those interests for you. You turn a blind eye to people like John Boehner who would hold YOUR rights hostage in order to feed their corporate masters. You fantasize about “the evil George Soros” yet you ignore the reality of the corporate takeover of the Republican Party.

    You don’t give a damn about “the welfare of the American people”. If you did you would not be playing the Haters game. Use your minds. Think for yourself. GROW UP already.”

    Obama is NOT a communist.
    Obama is NOT a Marxist.
    Obama is NOT a socialist. (It was a B.S. slander created by someone from faux news.)
    Obama is NOT a Muslim.
    Obama was NOT born in Kenya.

    All this is just a cesspool of lies, slander, denial, and hatred. Fueled by racism and bigotry. Fueled because a black man became President of the United States

  67. We do not “contribute” to entitlement programs, the money never reaches our bank accounts, which is the only place from which a contribution can be made. Nor are we guaranteed a darned thing by having these monies taken from us — except that the money is being pounded down a rat-hole of near-infinite depth.

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