One thing that is amazing to me how Jimmy Carter’s desperation to stay in the spotlight would cause him to say people that oppose Barack Obama’s policies are driven by race. This week Jimmy Carter has been making many public appearances all over the media telling anyone that would listen that the fierce opposition to Obama is driven by the color of his skin.
“I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man,” Carter told NBC News.
This statement is presumptuous at best and an outright lie at worst. There is no evidence of the opposition to his policies being based on the color of his skin. It is shameful that it is Democrats that scream racism all the time yet they are the first ones to notice the color of a person’s skin. Is it that difficult to believe that someone could disagree with his policies simply on the policies themselves? There is a fundamental difference of opinion between liberals/socialists and conservatives. I know there are many people that tune out at the mention of the word socialist because it has such a stigma to it but if you look up the definition of the word you will see that it is an accurate description.
Socialism: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.
Socialism. (2009). In Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.
Retrieved September 19, 2009, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Socialism
Sometimes people forget that the once feared Soviet Union’s real name was the Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics (USSR). In fact another definition of socialism can be found on Dictionary.com
Socialism: (in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.
Socialism. (2005). In American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy.
Retrieved September 19, 2009, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Socialism
This is one of the things that really disturbs me about the modern day Democrat”ic” party. I make the distinction between the Democrat “ic” party and the true Democratic philosophy because the party is anything but Democratic by definition. In their attempt at attaining socialism, they cannot win the argument that socialism is better so they start claiming racism against those that would dare stand up against it. People are opposed to government run healthcare because the government was not meant to work that way. People have seen plenty of examples of how the government’s own bureaucracy tends to make things worse. The government is not driven by financial success and therefore has no incentive to prevent waste. This waste would be done away with in private industry because they need to be competitive. There is no competition in government. Assuming the arguments for government run healthcare are legitimate then 47 million more people would be having tax payer funded insurance. This does not address that there will not be anymore doctors available to serve the extra work load. Secondly the only way to pay for this is to increase taxes dramatically.
People have been dealt bailouts, bogus stimulus packages, and excessive spending by both former President Bush and the current President Barack Obama. All the while being preached to about the economy being in shambles. By definition a recession is when the economy has negative growth for two consecutive quarters. Negative growth means negative income, meaning negative taxes. The last thing that should be done in a negative growth economy is to impose new taxes on them. Raising taxes does just the opposite of growth. Despite this reality, the Democrats have an unprecedented majority in all branches of government that is not likely to happen again for a long time. This is why they are so determined to get this passed despite the negative impact on the economy. They fully understand that if they do not get it this time, then it will be a considerable amount of time before they can have another majority to this degree.
As Margaret Thatcher once said “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money".