This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.
Move Over Marx, Here Comes Obama
Ronald Reagan would be turning in his grave, wouldn’t he? In what became known as the most anti-communist speech of all time given by Reagan in 1987 on the 70th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), the former President of the United States of America said that the Soviet Union was the ‘evil empire’. If we could bring that President back to life in true-Hollywood fashion (in fitting with his previous job! A leopard never changes its spots), he would certainly say that it was not Russia today that was the evil empire of communism, but the United States itself! Funny how, as time goes on, people seem to change their attitudes and forget what they once criticized in the past, isn’t it?
The Question that Obama is begging us all to answer these days is: has the good old US of A gone Commy? Pinko?Lefty? You know what I’m hinting it, don’t you? Don’t go getting all bashful, some might say that there is nothing to be ashamed of. Shame it just didn’t happen fifty-odd years ago, you might have saved us all the heartache of the Cold War, shivering out in the freezing temperatures of two ideologies that were at loggerheads with each other, vying for a place of supremacy.
Now the US has gone the other way. Move over Marx! Marx is so yesterday, anyhow, dontcha know? Obama is the new manna; he’s a happening all in himself, food from heaven and the best thing about it all is that it came at a time when nobody expected it at all.
Obama’s new tax policy will raise $800 billion over a decade. But, it’s the rich and the middle class that are going to be hit the most. The People’s Bank of the Soviet Union shortly after the Revolution was created by the merging of banks that were nationalized by force. Only difference with Obama and the US banking system is where the forcing came from. The banks in the US have been to all intents and purposes nationalized. Obama has bailed out the banks to the tune of $780 billion each year since the recession according to research. They get $360 billion in Federal Reserve subsidies and $120 billion in federal deposit insurance. You can add another $100 billion in government-guaranteed loans and the same sum in monopolistic advantages. Lastly there’s $100 billion in fees in the OTC (over-the-counter) derivative market. That all adds up to trillions. Literally.
Remember they were “too big to fail”. Where’s the free-market economics that were the pride of neoliberalism? Reagan would be turning in his grave! Didn’t we believe in the US at one time that printing money would do nothing more than increase inflation. Whatever happened to those principles of the USA, so dear to their hearts, so exportable to the rest of the world? It was the model that we all had to follow. Now, the US is turning in on itself, coming full circle, turning commy. Who would have thought?
Obamacare was an admirable pledge for his election. Even though he is far from succeeding and there are still million without access to health in the USA. There were 45 million in 2012 that still didn’t have healthcare cover. But, in the process of setting up healthcare Obama has created a hoard of bureaucrats that are employed daily as civil servants to deal with the implementation of new policies. Federal employment has increased under Obama by 11.7% on average since 2009. If the shrinking private sector of liberals can’t employ you (there’s been a fall of 7.5 million jobs), then the state will happily do so. Can we all join the bandwagon? There were 2, 790, 000 federal workers in January 2009 (when Obama took office). Now there are 2, 804, 000. Every month has seen an increase in the number of federal workers since that date. Where’s the neoliberal attitude gone?
What happened to free trade? Where are the open markets, privatization and deregulation? Where’s the reduction in the public sector gone? Where’s the meritocracy in life? Where’s the employee of the month hanging on the wall out of just deserves? That’s so old-hat, isn’t it just! Everyone gets protected, helped, boosted, aided. That’s the wonderful thing about Communism. Old-School style. Now that’s fashionable, isn’t it? Old-school!
The Obama administration has sent the welfare state through the roof, costing nearly $1 trillion a year. That’s an increase of 19%. Is the US becoming an assisted state? Is the state become the people’s nanny? Federal and state spending have grown from $779.9 billion to $927.2 billion. Debt is growing, spending is increasing and the welfare state is expanding. The answer in true Soviet fashion is to print the bills and provide for the people.
This reads like a fictional piece. A Hollywood film featuring Obama and everybody gets to eat the popcorn…well sorry, the rich pay, the poor eat the popcorn. But, it’s not a movie. It’s what’s happening today.
Had the Soviet Union still been in existence, the USA would have been annexed as a wonderful example of the ideology that they invented. Today, that’s not possible. So, Obama is going to have to go it alone.
But, as we look on and watch in awe at what is happening with the QE, the state intervention(s), the money-printing, the bolstering of the banks, the massive shore-up policies to save the failings of their system, we wonder how Stalin must have (somewhere, wherever he is in that Communist paradise) a wry smirk on his face. Can you hear The Internationale? Obama is humming it as we speak! The USSA?
Originally posted http://www.tothetick.com/move-over-marx-here-comes-obama
You might also enjoy
Death of the Dollar Phillippines Waiting in the Wings Big Bond Sell-Off
EU27 Youth Unemployment Hits 23.5% Walmart Fined $82 million for Waste Disposal
The Dreaded Curse of the IMF! The Biggest Sell-Offs in History
»
- Pivotfarm's blog
- 12015 reads
- Printer-friendly version
- Send to friend
- advertisements -
It seems in a way that American fascism really traces back to Abraham Lincoln and his brutal crushing the States Rights rebels with 600,000 American dead, Lincoln denying civil liberties and jailing journalists, shooting dead civilian demonstrators etc ...
Like in the ending of that film 'Gangs of New York' where they line up the bodies of all the New York city civilians shot dead by Lincoln's troops ... the ultimate theme of the film being that the US government itself became the ultimate criminal 'gang' in America, under Lincoln
It seems that the US Constitution really died at Gettysburg in 1863 ... and the USA has been, structurally if not experientially before the recent years, an imperialist national dictatorship ever since
Some are, for sure.
There's no question that the intellectual vanguard of today's democrat faction - Sunstein, Orszag, etc. - are pure marxist.
Sunstein's neo-marxist manifesto "Nudge" is basically a rehash of the original 1848 manifesto less the creativity. Sunstein's core superstition boils down to this: Central government "choice architects", formerly known as "apparatchiks", somehow magically know what's best for you.
Know Thy Enemy.
Gets hard to differentiate the slippery slope when you see the world through a hair-thin slice of reality.
Please tell me again how "For Us or A'gin Us" logic wasn't "magically knowing what's best for you" despite vocal resistance from the few who weren't pulled into jingoistic bloodthirst? Or "deciding" (see what I did there?) that Big Pharma needed a break as much as those seniors need their "Medications" on the cheap?
Now tell me a story about how we need to build a fence to keep out the Mexicans...for free.
I believe we have gone past any old labels and definitions, and are in a new era in need of new terms brought about by the power of new media propaganda, centralization of both government and capitalism (our Kleptoligarchy), and the detachment of a majority of the population from the land.
I hate to break the bad news, but there's nothing new under the sun.
The machine gun, the airplane, and the atomic bomb.
People don't change much over the eons, but the toys sure do.
That's right. Reagan was the veritable Lenin of the whole shebang we are presently enduring. Thatcherism-Reaganism bolshevism, starting with the balooning Federal budget and trade deficits. But, but, didn't "Reagan prove deficits don't matter"?
Clinton-Rubin-Obama-Geithner are just the clean up crew, in both senses of the word.
Put that in you pipe and smoke it over in your brains, Ronnie-worshiping Tea-baggers!
Nice facile analysis.
I thought you said flaccid at first, but facile works.
+2 for comment and vocabulary usage.
selling publicly funded infrastructure to the highest bidder and then charging the taxpayers rent to use said infrastructure, that's the Reagan/Thatcher legacy.
Give me a fucking break. St. Reagan was to the left of Che Guevara
If you think that is what Ronald Reagan would be saying to the crony elite in this country or about his beloved but bailed out General Electric, you are seriously misinformed.
Once upon a time Ronnie was a leftie... then he objected to one Bill and a leftie rang him and told him he'd cut his actor face up if he didn't change his view... then Ronnie became a rightie
at neither juxtaposition was Ronnie right, bless him, because every politician there's ever been has been wrong ..on everything
Ronald Reagan wasn't a politician, he was a working B-list actor who worked hard to educate himself on economic, social, and political theory. This was a self-made man in the greatest American tradition, the towering giant of the 20th century. GHW Bush had no choice but to arrange his assassination, as Reagan would have singlehandedly turned the globalist tide. He was so physically and mentally tough, he survived, although he was badly compromised. Conservatives have a monumental debt of gratitude to this man.
He was afraid to ride horses, but liked being photographed on them, so he'd ride in his helicopter instead.
Rational men laugh at your sycophantic "girls gone wild" hero fetishism.
Hero fetishism? Everything I wrote was true. Name a single self-made man who ascended to the presidency in the 20th century. The fact that Bush tried to have him assassinated tells you just what a threat he represented to the established order.
Considering how much riding he had to do when he was an actor, if he was afraid of horses, he obviously managed that fear pretty well. I guess if you want to pick on him for not liking horses, that's fine, he was a human being after all. But it makes you sound petty and infantile.
Reagan started the whole thing going, asshat, by de-regulating and trickle down economics!
trickle down econmics does work, it employs billions of people around the globe in private companies who are productive and share their wealth with their staff
trickle down does not work if you have a massive monopoly administration and a monopoly central bank who shovels a debauched currency it into the unproductive (politicians and bankers) peoples pockets
2,000 years of human history demonstrates unequivably and beyond all argument who creates wealth (private) and who does not (public and banking)
bankers and politicians never do and never will, Benny's QE strategy is 100% wrong on all counts ...don't let that stop you Ben
unequivably
"trickle down econmics does work...", he said, blinking through a hot, yellow stream of counterfactual evidence.
Have started 7 companies over thirty years and paid millions in salaries and bonuses. In this environment the key consideration is no longer straight up commerce. The key consideration is can you sell to the government and its employees. If not, then forget it.
You know, there is a diference between, fascism and socialism and communism. I'm getting really tired of people calling O a communist, when they obviously don't know the difference.
It's all the same thing. But commies were known for one thing - mass murder of their own population. How soon do you think it will be before step and fetch it begins to kill whitey?
Exactly. Socialists NEED to kill. Fascists prioritize killing foreign enemies (even if they have to invent them), Communists prioritize killing domestic enemies. Obama is thirsting to kill Americans, that's why he is unwinding war operations overseas while desperately trying to foment civil war in the US.
No question.
The very word "Change" comes from the marxist delusion that power should be wielded not merely based upon the interpretation of history, but to "change" it according to the wielders whims.
The "Abolition of Man", as CS Lewis noted.
Go and Google 'Operation Prarie Fire'...there is a Youtube video of a supposed FBI informant...you'll have your answer...it's chilling
+100.
Written by part by Bill Ayers, in whose home O-Vomit began his political career.
Fact.
Hayek, in "The Road to Serfdom", noted that there were striking similarities betweeen national socialism and marxist socialism.
"The Road to Serfdom" is worth reading, in case you're not familiar with it; a sample is online here:
http://www.savageleft.com/poli/rts-ten.html
National Socialism (which is NOT socialism despite the name) and Marxist Socialism ( or Communism) are completely opposite systems despite what Hayek might have to say. The only similarity is the both systems were totalitarian.
Aurel Kolnai, in "The War Against the West" dedicated an entire chapter to the German notion of "socialism" and its relatioship to its marxian cousins. Kolnai, in fact, thoroughly documents the links between those marxian socialists, like Werner Sombart, who went on to become leading intellectuals in the Germna national socialist movement.
A relevant sample chapter from "The War Against the West" is here:
http://www.savageleft.com/poli/watw-seven.html
While the book can be hard to find, it's worth reading to supplemnt the material that Hayek introduces in "The Road to Serfdom".
Not economically. The Nazis, poster boys for fascism, were the NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY.
Facism=socialism+racial theory put in a tumbler, add a hyper-inflation and war reparations to international business, shaken vigorously and strained into one of those sweet spiked helmets.
The Fascists weren't socialists is spite of the name. In fact the first thing they did when they took power was to arrest the Socialist along with the Communists. They were the first into the concentration camps.
What you can't grasp is that socialists hate each other more than they hate anyone else. That's why there are so many different flavors of socialism.
Actually, that's not the reason. You need to review Igor Shafarevich's seminal work on the subject:
http://www.savageleft.com/poli/hoc.html
(Socialism In Our Past and Future)
No question. Kolnai wrote about it extensively in "The War Against the West". A sample chapter, on German national socialism is here:
http://www.savageleft.com/poli/watw-seven.html
Interestingly, virtually all of the national socialist intellectuals were originally marxian socialist intellectuals.
***virtually all of the national socialist intellectuals were originally marxian socialist intellectuals.***
Total bullshit!!
The origins of German national sociaism in marxism are very well documented in Kolnai's "The War Against the West" and Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom".
In fact, marxism originated in Germany as a reactionay counter-Christian ideology that's somewhat morphed into a counter-Christian religion.
You can reference Kolakowski's "Main Currents of Marxism" for that history.
What grudge, may I ask, do you harbour against history?
Perhaps you can explain a bit about why these stout Marxists in Germany spent so much time blowing the shit out of their Marxist brethren on the Eastern Front?
We bear no grudge against history, just your narrow and fundamentally challenged excuse for a view of same.
Just pointing out that the roots of the noxious weed of totalitarianism are the same.
The branches are different, though.
i think the one thing this thread has proven is, labels are pointless......
Well, at least someone has thought about it. So which is O and our current gov, fascist, socialist, marxist? And by the way, that National Socialist Party, was just a moniker.
And when you think about these things you must look at what they do, not what they say.
And we do like those helmets!!
It doesn't matter in the sense that it's all counter-Western and counter-Constitutional.
Each of us has a very simple task: Understand, protect, defend, and preserve the Constitution of the United States. Or condemn our posterity to a thousand years of darkness.
It is that simple.
who gives a crap what colour ribbons they wave
this is a monopoly institution with the delusion it can sit above society (like religion and royalty before it) and think their office is more equal than others and smart enough (no proof required) to hand single one-size-fits-all decisions down to society
the job description of 'democratic Govt' stinks so bad its a wonder of the world it's lasted 2,000 years
all monopolies engender the exact same 3 character traits
1. control freaks meddle ever more in others buiiness
2. their brains without competition turns to 'total cretin' status
3. all results/performance by monopolies are shitter than shit
even some very bright people I follow (still) think a monopoly centtral bank is a 'must'
no monopoly in history has ever delivered anything but pig ignorance and sows ears results
Only Freedom has worked in human history, as nature designed us ..and best of all, it's Tax Free
Technically, Hussein Obama is a delusional marxist. That said, the word "communist" is a fair description for anyone who indulges in the marxist attack vectors identified below ...
There are three main tactics used by the marxists in their war against Western civilization:
- Attacking private property
- Attacking the family
- Attacking Christianity
Know thy enemy.
I'm sure Reagan learned really quick like to not give a fuck about anything other than staying alive after Bush turned the neighbor's retard kid lose with a gun.
And you thought that stars wars defence system was to fend off the russians.
Reagan increased regulation on Wall Street, increased Social Security taxes, and increased spending 76%. Reagan set the record, post WWII, record for deficits as a percentage of the GDP at 6%, which stood until Obama's 10.9%.
Taxes on the middle class rose and SS tax collections increased 96% under Reagan.
Even though taxes collected under Reagan increased 69% he should be judged as a statist vastly increasing the size of the federal government running deficits year after year to feed the bankers and bureaucracy.
Jimmy Carter did the deregulation, airlines, trucking, signed the anti-union legislation that prohibited federal workers from striking.
The first poster in this Reagan record thread is a idiot.
Google Murray Rothbard Ludwig von misses and don’t end up looking like the ass hat at the top of this thread.
Reagan set the record, post WWII, record for deficits as a percentage of the GDP at 6%, which stood until Obama's 10.9%.
So? That's a red herring. Unlike today, quarterly GDP was over 4.0% more than a dozen times during Reagan's two terms in office -- and that's back when the numbers were at least somewhat believable and not manipulated. Back then, the deficits as a percentage of the GDP were less than half what they are now too. At the high point one million new jobs were being created every month -- in a much smaller economy.
You can argue Reagan's policies helped the bankers and government, but you can't say that Reagan's policies -- unlike this president's -- didn't benefit Main St. too.
Reagan's tax revenue increased because the economy improved. The problem with the dificits was that the LBJ Great Society programs were really getting rolling so that costs were ballooning faster than revenues from taxes. Sure, the defense budget increased, but it was the War on Poverty benefit programs which drove the deficits. Here we are 40 years later, increased benefit programs on auto pilot spending increases, and deficits rising on a hyperbolic path.
That and a flood of immigrants.