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October 13, 2009
Challenge: Show Me Where Obama Isn't a Socialist
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at October 13, 2009 1:59 PM
Steve Chapman, a Chicago Tribune columnist, makes the case that B. Hussein "Spread the wealth around" Obama is not really a socialist. If you recover after ROFLYAO at Chapman's claim that George W. Bush was "a conservative hero," you will find he has three points of evidence for his thesis.
- Some of Obama's advisors are not socialists.
- Frank Llewelyn, a hardcore socialist, says Obama isn't a socialist.
- ObamaCare does not outlaw private insurance.
As a conservative, I am unpersuaded. Anyone can pay lip service to free enterprise and limited government. But has Chairman Zero advanced even one policy that's pro-free enterprise and limited government? Off the top of my head, I can name twelve Administration policies that are anti-free enterprise and/or pro-Marxist.
- Signed a massive "stimulus" package that primarily benefited government workers.
- Government takeover of General Motors
- Supports individual mandates as part of ObamaCare
- Supports regulation of salaries within the financial industry
- Supports giving community organizers (Think ACORN) oversight over the mortgage industry
- Supports 60% increase in Capital Gains Tax
- Supports Cap and Trade (i.e. Massive energy sector regulation and taxation of energy use)
- Shut down domestic offshore oil exploration
- Supports massive insurance industry regulation as part of ObamaCare
- Sided with Marxist dictators Castro and Chavez to try and install another Marxist dictator in Honduras
- Supports federal regulation of radio station ownership/ diversity requirements.
- A vast expansion of the regulatory bureaucracy
So, here's my challenge: Can anyone name even one policy proposed, advanced, or enacted by the Obama regime that favors free enterprise and/or limited government? Name just one. Anybody. One policy, that's all I ask.
