Yup. He’s a Socialist… Barack Obama: “A New Vision Of An America In Which Prosperity Is Shared” (Video)

Can we call him a socialist now?
This past weekend in Chicago Barack Obama promoted,
“A new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared.”

He used to try to hide his radical socialist beliefs.
Now he doesn’t give a damn.

Via Real Clear Politics:

“Too many folks still don’t have a sense that tomorrow will be better than today. And so, the question in this election is which way do we go?” President Obama asked at a fundraiser in Chicago on Sunday.

“Do we go forward towards a new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared?” Obama asked. “Or do we go backward to the same policies that got us in the mess in the first place? I believe we have to go forward.”

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#1 August 13, 2012 at 12:53 pm
Mad Hatter commented:

“Do we go forward towards a new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared?”

Hey Mr. Marxist, how about if we go back to a vision of America in which prosperity is earned.
#2 August 13, 2012 at 12:53 pm
Bill Mitchell commented:

Not that it matters but Obama is down 3+ points on Intrade today.

I honestly wonder what games Gallup is playing to show NO CHANGE in the Presidential race after the Ryan pick?
#3 August 13, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Bill Mitchell commented:

“A new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared.”

Look familiar?

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”

Karl Marx, 1875
#4 August 13, 2012 at 12:56 pm
kathteach commented:

Obama campaign – please keep saying “FORWARD”. Please ask your candidate to keep asking us of MORE of him. Please never stop. Please keep repeating that Obama wants us to keep doing more of the same things he has been doing. Please.

It’s like a gift whenever I hear him ask us for moving forward with his Valerie Jarret – David Axelrod – Michelle Obama dominated (creepily dysfunctional White House and Cabinet) Administration.

Keep it coming, kids. We need that kind of support on the Restore and Recover Team.
#5 August 13, 2012 at 12:57 pm
Remco Kimber commented:

Which Way, America?

(A) The way of the Founders/Framers
or
(B) The way of the EU/USSR/UN model

There’s no middle road.

Under (A) rights are inalienable, inherent in simply existing. Government exists, with the consent of the governed, solely to protect those rights.

Under (B) rights are “granted” by government which exists unto itself regardless of the consent of the governed, acting as the final arbiter. Here, what government “gives” can as easily be taken away.

Well, fellow Americans, which do you want, (A) or (B)? There is no other choice.

The idea of centralism was always a false premise. Moving toward a “compromising center” always means abandoning your founding principles. And you will note that all “compromise” moves in one direction only, toward that of more government.

Do we want freedom FROM government via limited, constitutional government whereby government itself is bound by law, or do we want total government. There is no middle position. Madison (Fed. 51) put it this way, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.”

Rather than government being dependent on the people, as Madison et alia had hoped, today we witness Obama and his crowd of his crowd of leftists (including all historical lefties from Wilson, FDR, LBJ, et alia) inverting the Framers’ ideal to the point that the people, and as many as possible, must be made dependent on the government which will then go after the producers (“tax the rich” is their shibboleth) with a vengeance, a taste of which has been given to us beginning on 01/20/09.
#6 August 13, 2012 at 12:58 pm
Bill Mitchell commented:

I always thought prosperity was earned, not shared.
#7 August 13, 2012 at 12:59 pm
stopsocialism commented:

More socialism talk today about the farmers. Also he is buying up meat and fish, taking it off the shelves to raise the cost to consumers. $150 million in fish and meat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeFG6wB0MHk
#8 August 13, 2012 at 12:59 pm
Bill Mitchell commented:

Obama’s definition of “shared prosperity” is:

I take your stuff and give it to my friends.
#9 August 13, 2012 at 1:01 pm
Lazy commented:

It’s usually not a good sign once the masks start coming off.
#10 August 13, 2012 at 1:02 pm
Bill Mitchell commented:

You want to know what is wrong with liberals? Their brains are full of pseudo-intellectual gobbledygook.

Here is Marx:

In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life’s prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”

No you tell me, what the F*CK is he talking about?
#11 August 13, 2012 at 1:02 pm
Jet Jaguar commented:

Give $100 to a beggar and watch him share with the other beggars. Yeah, right.
#12 August 13, 2012 at 1:02 pm
derpHoft commented:

“These are plans for implementation, reducing the cost of government, reducing the burden on the people and getting a prosperity that will be shared by all.”

- That Socialist Ronald Reagan in 1980.
#13 August 13, 2012 at 1:06 pm
dwd commented:

Here’s the thing about “shared prosperity” … everyone getting everything equally sounds good, but if everyone is POOR then they are equally sharing their prosperity. That’s the end result of socialism, everyone is poor — except the select elite few who rule us all, which is what Obama wants to be.

The “shared prosperity” Obama promises is trickle-up poverty. We’re already seeing it happen. But as long as everyone is more equal, even if that “equality” is achieved by bringing the upper and middle classes down to the level of the lower classes, in Obama’s mind that’s preferable.

Don’t build others up, punish success and tear people down. That’s the Obama way.
#14 August 13, 2012 at 1:06 pm
Byson Pearson commented:

#5
A great deal hangs on this election. If BO is re-elected, he will take that as America’s answer to answer to #5′s WHICH WAY question.

Controlling how history is “taught” has been rewarding to the Left. A people that forgets how it arrived at its present station in life is quite likely to lose the skills necessary to sustain that station. The ever-expanding welfare class, dependent on others for their living, is evidence that America is forgetting.

From our perspective “public” education is an utter disaster. But for the Left having captured lots of cultural institutions, with public schooling being one of the most critical, has allowed it and its government-dependent, rabid minions to control the discourse.
#15 August 13, 2012 at 1:07 pm
Marmo commented:

Wow, what a dilemma. Do I want to go forward into a communist hell-hole future, or do I want our country pulled from the brink and the government release the reins of a free market?

Gee, that’s a tough decision.
#16 August 13, 2012 at 1:08 pm
Finncrisp commented:

Barry is deep into MUD – Marixst Utopian Delusion. There is no turning back for this Socialist hack. We must end his delusion and bring his empire to a conclusion.

Out of the Air Force 1 and into the Choom wagon.
#17 August 13, 2012 at 1:08 pm
Mad Hatter commented:

#12,

Site your source, and supply a link for your quote.
#18 August 13, 2012 at 1:08 pm
greenfairie commented:

^^I think we know what Reagan meant (basically, water lifting all boats) versus what Obama meant (taking from the productive and giving it to friends, cronies, and the dependency class).
#19 August 13, 2012 at 1:08 pm
Diane Harvey commented:

Shared prosperity?

The left and leftist politicians have helped themselves to my pocketbook for decades sharing my earned resources with the useless welfare class.
#20 August 13, 2012 at 1:08 pm
Adi commented:

He’s not a Socialist, he’s a “progressive”.