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July 29, 2008
Social Justice Defined
Posted by Dave Blount at July 29, 2008 11:08 AM
Most of what Barack Obama reads off his teleprompter has no more significance than the chirping of a bird. But unlike "the audacity of hope," the term "social justice" — which he uses quite often, to the hungry cheers of his supporters — actually means something. Investor's Business Daily explains:
"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 has spent his life surrounded by fellow fanatics who believe in "social justice" — ie, the coercive redistribution of wealth on a massive scale — going all the way back to his father:
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.
Similar policies have gotten Zimbabwe where it is today — and where we will be tomorrow, if "social justice" prevails.
On a tip from Oiao.
