Howard Dean Declares Debate Between Capitalism and Socialism to Be Over

http://www.breitbart.tv/howard-dean-declares-debate-between-capitalism-and-socialism-to-be-over/

Obama on Redistribution of Wealth

"If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court. I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for it I’d be o.k. But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendancy to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that"

Up to a Million March to US Capitol to Protest Against 'Obama the Socialist'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213056/Up-million-march-US-Capitol-protest-Obamas-spending-tea-party-demonstration.html

As many as one million people flooded into Washington for a massive rally organised by conservatives claiming that President Obama is driving America towards socialism.

The size of the crowd - by far the biggest protest since the president took office in January - shocked the White House.

Demonstrators massed outside Capitol Hill after marching down Pennsylvania Avenue waving placards and chanting 'Enough, enough'.

Van Jones in His Own Words

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,545360,00.html





"And our Native American sisters and brothers who were pushed and bullied and mistreated and shoved into all the land we didn't want, where it was all hot and windy. Well, guess what? Renewable energy? Guess what, solar industry? Guess what wind industry? They now own and control 80 percent of the renewable energy resources. No more broken treaties. No more broken treaties. Give them the wealth! Give them the wealth! Give them the dignity. Give them the respect that they deserve. No justice on stolen land. We owe them a debt."

"What about our immigrant sisters and brothers? What about our immigrant sisters and brothers? What about people who come here from all around the world who we're willing to have out in the field, with poison being sprayed on them, poison being sprayed on them because we have the wrong agricultural system. And we're willing to poison them and poison the earth to put food on our table, but we don't want to give them rights and we don't want to give them dignity and we don't want to give them respect?"

"The white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people of color communities."

Obama's G20 plan kisses off Declaration of Independence

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94331
How did I miss this?

"The IMF and the Financial Stability Board become the effective global regulators over the corporate world, superseding all U.S. governmental authorities, including the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and a host of corporate regulators, including the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Labor"

US Government Seeks to Rein In Pay Across Private Sector

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Administration-Rein-in-pay-apf-15500519.html?.v=6

And so it begins...

USA Moves Left, EU Moves Right

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090608/ap_on_re_eu/european_elections

Interestingly, by moving left, the US is matching EU movements that have occurred over this past decade. Europe is trumpeted for its socialized medicine and welfare programs as models that the US should emulate. Why then are voters resisting further left movements in the midst crisis? If it has been "working" for so many years, why change? I feel it is because it doesn't work and only through the heartiness of capitalism have social programs been able to survive. Now that we are in a crisis, the sheep in wolves clothing has been unmasked...socialism does not solve social programs and in fact may potentially be the contributing factor to the crisis in the first place. However, the US fails to see the irony in all this. While our president calls for changes in the socialist vein, these very changes have failed in Europe and elsewhere. I fear that the invisible hand is going to have to smack us before we come to our senses.

1 of every 6 dollars of Americans' Income is from a Government Check or Voucher

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-06-03-benefits_N.htm

The sad thing is that while these benefits may be a great saftey net now during a recession, I would venture to guess that it is unlikely that they will be taken away, even once the recession has ended.

Just 53% in US Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/just_53_say_capitalism_better_than_socialism

This is what happens when you don't teach kids civics in schools. We have already had the socialism/free market debate 200 years ago when this country was founded. There is no discussion to be had: socialism is a failed economic system. Why do you think our country has made more impvorements to our way of life in the last 200 years than all of the 5000 years of recorded history? We must have been doing something right. And now because no one is taught the principles on which this country was founded, we are throwing it all away.