Fox News has a headline tonight asking “Are Obama’s Policies Ushering in Era of Socialism?“  For that question, I need one of those “easy buttons” they show on TV.  YES! It’s about time that some of the main stream media start noticing that this guy is taking our nation down a  slippery slope into an anti-capitalist pool where all wealth is redistributed.   Now that Bailout II is law (if your keepting tabs its 1,487-Billion dollars so far!) Fox says “serious questions are being raised about whether all the government intervention is taking the country down the path to socialism.”  Need the Easy button again. From Fox: “A technical definition of socialism is that the government owns the production, it owns the factories or the plants or the businesses,” said Heather Boushey, a senior economist with the left-leaning Center for American Progress. “That’s not what’s happening here,” she added. “It’s not that the U.S. is buying up all the factories or businesses. What’s going on is we’re making investments to get the private sector back on track.”  Peter Morici, a University Maryland business professor, said the all of the government spending “runs counter to the basic idea of Jeffersonian democracy, that it’s the individual who knows best. The government is there to set up a framework for the individual to prosper, succeed and create wealth.” Morici said America is headed for a European-style social democracy of the 1970s. “A large state sector, some state ownership of enterprises, big enterprises like banks and automobile companies and a lot of inefficiency that goes with it,” he said. But Boushey disagreed. “We are looking at an economic crisis caused by the collapse of our financial sector,” she said. “If we don’t get people back to work, the problem will spiral out of control.” Critics warn that’s exactly what happened in Europe when it implemented socialist reforms, forcing unemployment into the double digits.” We started talking about this socialism heading our way back in September.  We were on the fringe then.  People thought we were just right wing nuts. By way of reminder, this is what we posted on September 19th, 2008: ### What’s Next? Auto Bailout? Airline Bailout? -By Peter Andrew ConservativeAmerican.org Sept 19, 2008 With daily announcements of the government taking over more and more of the economy, we are reminded of a line from one of the Star Wars movies.  The line was supposedly a slam on George W. Bush by critics who said he was into “imperialism” and wanted to take over the world with pre-emptive wars.  Do you remember it? Only the “liberty” the Queen refers to apparently is capitalism.  So why are the wall street types offering the applause? Everyone is nervous about the economy, but is this the direction we want to head…where the government runs everything? Or even this? Amtrak Everything?  We cannot let the democrat-socialists and their fearless superhero leader Barack the Obaminable Snowed-man take us down this route folks.  Obama is no superhero. ### Seems we called this one spot on. Interesting we used the Star Wars thing to make the point. As the radical Obama signed the porkulus bill today, his signature was met with “thunderous applause.”  What the heck are these people clapping for? Did they see the DOW drop almost 300 points after he signed this? Do they even know what they are clapping for? Did they read the stimulus bill? Even their elected representatives didn’t read this nonsense!! This topic, this story is one reason why we say at ConservativeAmerican.org we are Leading the way Right. Five months later, national media outlets are opening their eyes and at least starting to discuss the true historic nature of Obama’s presidency: our nation’s first socialist President, Barack Hussein Obama.

“limited” and “temporary.”  While we can hope that is true, the government’s track record on living up to promises is not so great.  We need to make sure the “limited” part means no government influence in the board rooms of these banks, no controlling interests, no meddling in private business.  Do you think the government will actually stay out of trying to run these banks?  If you bought a huge share in a bank, would you just sit by the sidelines and let them do whatever they wanted?  Today you ARE buying a big share in some big banks, through your trusted representatives (not) in Washington D.C.  Those trusted people will keep an eye on it though, so everything  will be okay, right?  This is the wrong decision made by the wrong people.

On September 19th, 2008 ConservativeAmerican.org asked how long it would be before the government wanted to nationalize banking.  Apparently we won’t have to wait long.  Today Treasury Secretary, and apparently at least leaning toward being a socialist leader, Hank Henry Paulson said the US Government would begin to buy stock in private banks.  This is nothing short of nationalized banks.  This is a step toward socialism that we will have to watch very closely.  We can’t allow the government to gain controlling interest in private industry.

By Peter Andrew ConservativeAmerican.org With daily announcements of the government taking over more and more of the economy, we are reminded of a line from one of the Star Wars movies.  The line was supposedly a slam on George W. Bush by critics who said he was into “imperialism” and wanted to take over the world with pre-emptive wars.  Do you remember it? Only the “liberty” the Queen refers to apparently is capitalism.  So why are the wall street types offering the applause? Everyone is nervous about the economy, but is this the direction we want to head…where the government runs everything?         Or even this?         Amtrak Everything?  We cannot let the democrat-socialists and their fearless superhero leader Barack the Obaminable Snowed-man take us down this route folks.  Obama is no superhero.