Posted by
Arayem on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:56:39 AM
If anyone doubted Obama's plans to redistribute income, they need only look at his latest energy proposal. He promises to give American workers a $1,000 check paid for by taxing oil company profits. Don't expect him to stop at the oil companies. If he thinks drug company profits are too high, he will tax them to provide affordable health care. If banks make too much money, he will tax them to provide affordable housing, and so on. This policy will, of course, lead to failure. After a while there are no more profits and therefore nothing left to give away. Obama doesn't care. In his heart he is a socialist, cut from the same cloth as Saul Alinsky, another Chicago “community organizer”. It was Alinsky who wrote in Rules for Radicals, “There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future.” Sound familiar?
Like most of Obama's proposals, the $1,000 giveaway doesn't add up. About 145 million Americans are currently employed so the cost of Obama's plan will exceed $145 billion. He will have to take all the profits from all the oil companies and then some. This guy is dangerous, very, very dangerous.