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Is your love afair with Barry Obama over yet?
I openly admit that I do not have all the details, and am writing with perhaps partial information, but I write any way... Because I am a bit afraid and amazed at the people.
I heard this morning that your beloved President has a plan to pay for all the proposed health care reform: His plan includes things like, taxing people with income above 250k/year, cutting medicaid and medicare, and imposing penalties upon companies and individuals who do not cary health insurance.
I can understand taxing the rich, but not disproportionally. I can't see cutting medicaid/medicare- that will take away from the old people who depend on that system. (The ultimate goal being to euthanize the elderly, or to stock-pile them in warehouses until they die, much the way the assylums were for the mentally handi-capped until the 1970's. The only alternative I can think of being that the children will be required to insure the parents, and what of those who have no children?)
To impose penalties upon those who are unable to, or who have chosen not to carry health insurance takes away the freedom of choice. You impose penalties on speeders and lawbreakers. You impose penalties on companies for non-compliance issues. If a company has, say four employees, and does a meager business, trusting in the good heart of the employees to help build a company from the ground, at what point does the government decide it is time to impose such a penalty? If a familyfalls between the cracks, or hits hard times after some unplanned financial struggle, (who ever plans to struggle financially?), how will they pay such a penalty? And what is the amount of the penalty? It is entirely possible for a family of four to have a household income of 40k, which is well above the poverty line, not living extravagantly, owning used cars and making payments on them, to have such financial struggles as to worry occassionally about whether to put gas in the car or food on the table, while keeping the basic bills barely up to date.
Health care reform should not be imposed upon those seeking medical attention, but on the practitioners who charge $8200 for a night in a hospital, or above 10k to simply have a child, which is a natural course of life. A doctor who walks into a patients room and listens to a heart beat for 30 seconds should not charge $400 for that 2 minute visit. (These are the kind of things that have caused us to be in a healthcare crisis to begin with.) Where is the cap in trade where that is concerned? They want to impose a cap on what a construction project may cost, cutting into the pockets of those who risk injury to build the mansions of the doctors who charge too much to treat them!
Quite frankly put, I am afraid for America. I am afraid of Barak Obama. His language reflects that of the fathers of Communism. I know I may not have all the information I need to make these statements, but by my gut-instinct, I am right.
Has your love for your Czar ended yet?
These characteristics would put you in the overall category of Marxist.
You scored 64 out of 100 on a scale of Individual vs Social. This means that politically you are more likely to value the need for group actions and group benefit over individual enterprise and benefit.
You scored 72 out of 100 on a scale of Theist vs Materialist. This means that politically you are more likely to believe that religion and spirituality are superstitions that should not inform political debate.
You scored 42 out of 100 on a scale of Big Government vs Small Government. This means that politically you are neither more nor less likely to believe that government should keep out of legislating social policies, leaving such decisions to individuals.
You scored 43 out of 100 on a scale of Nationalist vs Internationalist. This means that politically you are neither more nor less likely to favour international bodies over national ones.
You scored 35 out of 100 on a scale of Protectionist vs Free Trader. This means that politically you are less likely to favour free trade over protectionist policies.
You scored 48 out of 100 on a scale of Absolutist vs Non Absolutist. This means that politically you are neither more nor less likely to believe that there is an absolute truth that may guide your ideological beliefs.
You scored 18 out of 100 on a scale of Controlled Market vs Liberal Market. This means that politically you are more likely to believe that there is need for government regulation of industry.
- 4% of test takers were more Marxist than you. (FFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!)
- 96% of test takers were more non-Marxist than you.
That the political spectrum ends in a circle is one of the most annoying and simple-minded models of politics ever devised. it's self-defeating crap. It was designed to make people want to stay in the center, which is a form of extremism.
Communism doesn't fade into fascism. Communism and fascism are diametric opposites. Opposites don't fade into each other. Therefore, communism cannot possible fade into fascism.
Fascism is authoritarian state capitalism. It's a situation where corporations - private tyrannies - rule over the people with little or no pretense of democracy (rule of the people) and liberalism (defense of individual rights and liberties).
Communism exists when there are no social classes and therefore no state to manage class antagonisms. Not even socialism fades in fascism, as socialism is a workers' state, whereas fascism is a capitalists' state.
Please, people, let's move beyond the cliches and develop a deeper understanding of the way systems work. The key is to look at the character of power in a given order and which groups that power benefits.
-Andrew Austin
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