Monday, July 20, 2009

Look at me, I'm a Communist!

Quite frankly, I'm a bit ticked off that Obama hasn't begun to address how we are going to pay for our massive bailouts and a mega health care bill, but what's frustrating me more is how people are treating the change in presidential policy.

Obama is not a Socialist. Obama is not a Communist. Obama is not a fascist. Obama is not a Muslim. Obama is not a Socialist.

Socialism is a form of government in which the government, among other things, levees high taxes, spends massive amounts of money, controls the bank, and suppresses individual freedoms. Right now, Obama hasn't done hardly any of this. He isn't taking away anybody's rights. He hasn't changed gun ownership rights, nor changed how the FCC, nor anything else pertaining to individual rights, really. In fact, the only thing he's done in this field is allow states to do their own thing and decide amongst themselves whether or not they want to discriminate against homosexuals. He's not raising taxes on the whole, unless, of course, you've heard that one guy say that he heard about him raising taxes, in which case he's raising taxes a tenfold. We're in a recession and he knows better than to raise taxes. He doesn't own the banks. Congress decided that it would be worth it to bail out some banks (with a huge price tag, woot) but he doesn't control what they do with the bailout cash. I don't think anybody really wants the government to own the banks and most people want to get the government out of the banks as soon as its possible to do so without losing our nation's creditors. And he's calling for substantially increased government funding, but that's precisely what we need in this time. The government creating jobs is what undid Hoover's failures and it will do the same about Bush's. He's going to the left, but he's going to stop before we are a socialist nation.

What's also grinding my gears is how people don't know the difference between Communism and Socialism. Communism essentially has no government, much unlike Socialism. Communism is a form of 'government' in which people put into the pot what they can and take out what they need. It won't work with real humans, but in a perfect world, it would be utopia. Communism didn't ruin nations like China, a failed attempt at Communism that turned out to be fascist dictatorship did. Obama is not a dictator and he never will be, so stop thinking we are going to start a neo-Communist revolution.

No comments: