LadyMod at scam.com
10-20-2008, 09:52 PM
Let's see, first Obama was a secret "Muslim." When that didn't work they accused him of not being born in the US of A. Then he was accused of "palling around with terrorists." None of that worked so, in the closing days of the campaign the right has decided on a new slur -- Obama is a "socialist."
So, the good ole Red Scare is back. The GOP, desperate for anything to scare voters away for Obama, has decided to try playing the 50-year old "pinko card." After all, it worked so well for so long, until Soviet communism collapsed.
The new GOP tactic debuted at the debate last Wednesday night, when McCain accused Obama of wanting to "spread the wealth." (GASP! God forbid!)
Not since the late 1920's has the gap between the haves and have-nots been so wide. And McCain's solution? Continue the same failed "trickle-down" policies that created that gap in the first place. The reason the economy is now in the dumps is, not because wealth had been "spread," but because it's been horded by those at the top leaving the Ameican consumer tapped out. And, since consumer spending represents 70% of the US economy... well, you do the freakin math!
Nevertheless, the very idea that taxes should be raised on the now ultra-flush rich and lowered on the gasping American middle class is, by GOP standards, "socialism."
Sarah Palin grunted the new party line at weekend rallies in which she charged that "this is no time to experiment with socialism."
Right. We should instead continue experimenting with no-holds-barred-peddle-to-the-medal lassie-faire capitalism. After all, it's worked so well -- if you ignore the near-death of the American middle class and the worldwide financial meltdown it has triggered. What we need now, according to McCain and Palin is just another stiff shot of the hair from the dog that's bit us.
Last night on 60 Minutes the head of Bank of America. Kenneth Lewis, was asked if the virtual nationalization of America's 9 largest banks was a sign America was going socialist. He thought for a moment and replied, "I don't know what history will call it, but it's going to be something different from what we've come to know."
Lewis also noted that, when the White House called the heads of the 9 largest banks together at last week, they were not given a choice in the matter. It was less a "meeting" and more a Mafia-style sit down The bankers were told by Sec. Paulson that, like it or not, need it or not, they were going to get $25 billion in cold hard cash from the government. And, in turn, the banks would give the US government partial ownership. Lewis said BofA did not need a cash infusion, but that it was not an offer that could be refused.
If Obama had been the president at that table last week you can bet the right would be organizing protests around the country claiming the deal (if you can call an ultimatum a deal) was proof positive that Democrats are socialists to the core.
Nevertheless, in the closing days of this campaign the new GOP slur will be that it's Obama who will lead America down the Marxist path. Talk about cognitive dissidence!
Palin Invokes Socialism Charge Against Oama (http://palin4.us/palin-invokes-socialism-charge-against-obama-abc-news)
October 20, 2008 8:09 AM
ABC News: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continued the Republican ticket's attempt to tie Sen. Barack Obama to what it calls socialist economic policies, attacking in new language Obama's plans to offer tax credits to those paying no income taxes and saying that "now is no time to experiment with socialism."
At an airport rally in Roswell, N.M. on Sunday afternoon, the Republican vice presidential nominee once again invoked Joe Wurzelbacher, now widely known as "Joe the Plumber," pushing Wurzelbacher's contention that Obama's tax plan sounded like socialism – a point also invoked by Sen. John McCain on Sunday.
"Senator Obama said he wants to quote 'spread the wealth.' What that means is he wants government to take your money and dole it out however a politician sees fit," Palin said, drawing boos from the crowd of several thousand.
"But Joe the Plumber and Ed the Dairy Man, I believe that they think that it sounds more like socialism," Palin added, referring to both Wurzelbacher and a man holding a sign reading "Ed the Dairy Man" in the crowd. "Friends, now is no time to experiment with socialism. To me, our opponent plans sounds more like big government, which is the problem. Bigger government is not the solution."
Palin questioned Obama's plan to offer tax credits to Americans currently not paying income taxes, calling it "a government giveaway" that would raise taxes on other Americans.
"He claims that he'll cut income taxes for 95 percent of Americans, but the problem is, more than 40 percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all," Palin said. "Since he can't reduce taxes on those who pay zero, he wants the government to send them a check that's called a tax credit. And where is he gonna get the money for all those checks that he will cut? By raising taxes on America's hard-working families and our small businesses."
"Obama's plans to raise taxes on some in order to give checks out to others is not a tax cut, it is more government growth and it's another government giveaway," Palin added. "Whatever you call his tax plan and that redistribution of wealth, it will destroy jobs. It will hurt our economy. And it's about time that we all called Barack Obama on it."
After the Roswell event, Palin flew to Colorado Springs, Colo., where she will have a morning rally on Monday. At the Colorado Springs airport, Palin took questions on the tarmac from the local and traveling press corps, defending her charge that Obama's tax policies have socialist aspects.
"There are socialist principles to that, yes," Palin said of Obama's tax plans. "Taking more from a small business or small business owners or from a hard-working families and then redistributing that money according to a politician's priorities -- there are hints of socialism in there and that's why I don't fault or discredit Joe the Plumber for bringing that up, asking if that is socialism."
But Palin disagreed when asked whether she thinks the $700 billion government bailout plan and bank rescue efforts had socialist aspects.
"No, I do not," Palin said. "And I believe that there are those measures that had to be taken by Congress to shore up not only the housing market but the credit markets, also to make sure that that's not frozen, so that our small businesses have opportunities to borrow and that was the purpose, of course, of that part of the bailout and the shoring of the banks."
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So, the good ole Red Scare is back. The GOP, desperate for anything to scare voters away for Obama, has decided to try playing the 50-year old "pinko card." After all, it worked so well for so long, until Soviet communism collapsed.
The new GOP tactic debuted at the debate last Wednesday night, when McCain accused Obama of wanting to "spread the wealth." (GASP! God forbid!)
Not since the late 1920's has the gap between the haves and have-nots been so wide. And McCain's solution? Continue the same failed "trickle-down" policies that created that gap in the first place. The reason the economy is now in the dumps is, not because wealth had been "spread," but because it's been horded by those at the top leaving the Ameican consumer tapped out. And, since consumer spending represents 70% of the US economy... well, you do the freakin math!
Nevertheless, the very idea that taxes should be raised on the now ultra-flush rich and lowered on the gasping American middle class is, by GOP standards, "socialism."
Sarah Palin grunted the new party line at weekend rallies in which she charged that "this is no time to experiment with socialism."
Right. We should instead continue experimenting with no-holds-barred-peddle-to-the-medal lassie-faire capitalism. After all, it's worked so well -- if you ignore the near-death of the American middle class and the worldwide financial meltdown it has triggered. What we need now, according to McCain and Palin is just another stiff shot of the hair from the dog that's bit us.
Last night on 60 Minutes the head of Bank of America. Kenneth Lewis, was asked if the virtual nationalization of America's 9 largest banks was a sign America was going socialist. He thought for a moment and replied, "I don't know what history will call it, but it's going to be something different from what we've come to know."
Lewis also noted that, when the White House called the heads of the 9 largest banks together at last week, they were not given a choice in the matter. It was less a "meeting" and more a Mafia-style sit down The bankers were told by Sec. Paulson that, like it or not, need it or not, they were going to get $25 billion in cold hard cash from the government. And, in turn, the banks would give the US government partial ownership. Lewis said BofA did not need a cash infusion, but that it was not an offer that could be refused.
If Obama had been the president at that table last week you can bet the right would be organizing protests around the country claiming the deal (if you can call an ultimatum a deal) was proof positive that Democrats are socialists to the core.
Nevertheless, in the closing days of this campaign the new GOP slur will be that it's Obama who will lead America down the Marxist path. Talk about cognitive dissidence!
Palin Invokes Socialism Charge Against Oama (http://palin4.us/palin-invokes-socialism-charge-against-obama-abc-news)
October 20, 2008 8:09 AM
ABC News: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continued the Republican ticket's attempt to tie Sen. Barack Obama to what it calls socialist economic policies, attacking in new language Obama's plans to offer tax credits to those paying no income taxes and saying that "now is no time to experiment with socialism."
At an airport rally in Roswell, N.M. on Sunday afternoon, the Republican vice presidential nominee once again invoked Joe Wurzelbacher, now widely known as "Joe the Plumber," pushing Wurzelbacher's contention that Obama's tax plan sounded like socialism – a point also invoked by Sen. John McCain on Sunday.
"Senator Obama said he wants to quote 'spread the wealth.' What that means is he wants government to take your money and dole it out however a politician sees fit," Palin said, drawing boos from the crowd of several thousand.
"But Joe the Plumber and Ed the Dairy Man, I believe that they think that it sounds more like socialism," Palin added, referring to both Wurzelbacher and a man holding a sign reading "Ed the Dairy Man" in the crowd. "Friends, now is no time to experiment with socialism. To me, our opponent plans sounds more like big government, which is the problem. Bigger government is not the solution."
Palin questioned Obama's plan to offer tax credits to Americans currently not paying income taxes, calling it "a government giveaway" that would raise taxes on other Americans.
"He claims that he'll cut income taxes for 95 percent of Americans, but the problem is, more than 40 percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all," Palin said. "Since he can't reduce taxes on those who pay zero, he wants the government to send them a check that's called a tax credit. And where is he gonna get the money for all those checks that he will cut? By raising taxes on America's hard-working families and our small businesses."
"Obama's plans to raise taxes on some in order to give checks out to others is not a tax cut, it is more government growth and it's another government giveaway," Palin added. "Whatever you call his tax plan and that redistribution of wealth, it will destroy jobs. It will hurt our economy. And it's about time that we all called Barack Obama on it."
After the Roswell event, Palin flew to Colorado Springs, Colo., where she will have a morning rally on Monday. At the Colorado Springs airport, Palin took questions on the tarmac from the local and traveling press corps, defending her charge that Obama's tax policies have socialist aspects.
"There are socialist principles to that, yes," Palin said of Obama's tax plans. "Taking more from a small business or small business owners or from a hard-working families and then redistributing that money according to a politician's priorities -- there are hints of socialism in there and that's why I don't fault or discredit Joe the Plumber for bringing that up, asking if that is socialism."
But Palin disagreed when asked whether she thinks the $700 billion government bailout plan and bank rescue efforts had socialist aspects.
"No, I do not," Palin said. "And I believe that there are those measures that had to be taken by Congress to shore up not only the housing market but the credit markets, also to make sure that that's not frozen, so that our small businesses have opportunities to borrow and that was the purpose, of course, of that part of the bailout and the shoring of the banks."
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