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power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Obama Channels Republican Socialism


Theodore Roosevelt giving a speech on Long Island in 1917

Strange Days . . .
Comrade Obama uses Theodore Roosevelt to attack the Socialist Republicans for not being Socialist enough.


By Gary;

In the same heartland town where Republican Theodore Roosevelt laid out a "square deal" for Americans in a speech in 1910, Comrade Obama condemned modern day Republicans who balked at raising taxes on the rich to pay for job creation.

Obama argued that government must act as a moderating force on capitalism to shield the middle class from its excesses and lashed out at the concept of unfettered markets and trickle-down economics.
Senator Nelson Aldrich
GOP Majority Leader and
author of the income tax

Personally I broke out laughing when I heard Obama attacking Socialist Republicans for not being Socialist enough.

The great myth of modern American politics is that the GOP is Conservative (whatever that means). 

In fact, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."  This has been the unwritten plank of the Republican Party Platform since 1901.

A little known fact is Marxism, a centralized Big Brother Government and the re-distribution of wealth were enacted into law by the Republican Party.

It was not just that "crazy" Theodore Roosevelt.  Almost the entire Republican Party was adopting Karl Marx as official policy.

The GOP never met a Big Government welfare state program they did not protect and vote to fund.

But Republican Theodore Roosevelt said it well.

Roosevelt endorsed a Marxist progressive income tax

“No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. Every dollar received should represent a dollar's worth of service rendered not gambling in stocks, but service rendered.
The really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size, acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means.

Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in another tax which is far more easily collected and far more effective, a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion, and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.”   - - - Theodore Roosevelt

A Marxist progressive inheritance tax

“A heavy progressive tax upon a very large fortune is in no way such a tax upon thrift or industry as a like would be on a small fortune. No advantage comes either to the country as a whole or to the individuals inheriting the money by permitting the transmission in their entirety of the enormous fortunes which would be affected by such a tax . . . "    - - - Theodore Roosevelt


"Many of the men who call themselves socialists today are in reality merely radical social reformers, with whom on many points good citizens can and ought to work in hearty general agreement, and whom in many practical matters of government good citizens can well afford to follow."    - - - Theodore Roosevelt

President William Howard Taft was hand picked by Roosevelt.  Taft urged the GOP Congress to adopt the Marxist progressive income tax.  As War Governor of the Philippines Taft made sure the new American Empire was properly run and helped the US military kill as many Filipino freedom fighters as possible.


In 1909 at the urging of President William Howard Taft the Republican controlled Congress passed the 16th Amendment to the Constitution bringing the progressive income tax and the Marxist re-distribution of wealth to America. 

The progressive income tax was pure vote buying.  The vast mass of voters would not have to pay the tax.  The Republican written 16th Amendment made the targets of the tax the upper middle classes and the rich.

Class warfare 

Republicans in Congress and the White House advocated taking the wealth of the producing class and re-distribute it to those who the politicians feel are worthy to get it.  All to buy the votes of those who were not taxed.

Republican Socialism.

The Republican Party has never looked back.  The Square Deal, the New Deal, the Great Society to George Bush's massive spending on "Compassionate Conservatism" it did not matter.  The GOP adopted all vote buying programs as their own.  At election time they ran for office as the good government managers of the Big Brother state. 

Vote Republican for a "kinder and more gentle" Federal Master.

The GOP not only adopted the Marxist re-distribution of wealth to buy votes, but also broke with past Republican administrations and adopted the new policy of overseas Empire and an aggressive foreign policy.

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