Alright...Socialism

I'm sorry I haven't kept this blog the way I intended. I will hopefully post more mp3's in the future. For now, I need to rant a little bit.

Last week, a friend of mine sent me a text message urging me to check out a video called "The Obama Deception" on YouTube. Before I continue I would like to state this buddy of mine was home schooled, believes Jesus Christ is his Lord and Savior, and for musical entertainment listens to artists who lean Pro-Choice i.e. Pearl Jam, Tool, Nirvana.

I check out the video, I automatically notice it is an InfoWars documentary. If you don't know what Infowars.com is...well, go check them out(it is basically Michael Moore on meth). They don't think too highly of George Bush either, and they think the 9/11 terrorist attacks where an act of the United States government. In the film they claim the Bilderberg group control our minds with their financial influence and are opposing on us a Socialist New World Order. The Bilderberg group, essentially from my research (using EBSCOhost, not WikiPedia) is just a bunch of rich Europeans and a few rich Americans who get together at hotel every year to discuss business.

They claim that before the most recent election, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton where at the meeting. Please. Continuing...

I run into my friend at a party and I tell him straight up the movie he recommended was pure garbage. The last time we had hung out we debated over a film called "What the bleep". He considered it very accurate and a mind fuck...I called it junk science. Back to the party, him and his brother are going at me, saying Obama is a huge socialist and we are doomed. I simply state factual information regarding the President's 70 odd days in office. Obama had nothing to do with the first stimulus bill, had nothing to do with the AIG and other's bailouts, and had nothing to do with the auto industry bail outs. That was President Bush. For those of you who watch VH1 reality and American Idol, President Bush, a self-proclaimed evangelical Christian tripled the size of government, spent your money (roughly 3 trillion by now) on two military occupations (not wars, wars have missions and are approved by Congress; not 'coalitions of the willing'). Now, in a nut shell...that sounds like SOCIALISM.

Socialism is nothing new in America, so before I tackle Obama, lets do a quick check list.

George Bush:

Dumped tax dollars into our Public Education system via a program that most schools were inadequate to handle called the no child left behind act (1 for Socialism).

Spent trillions of dollars battling boogy men who hide in caves plotting to attack us because we love freedom (2 for Socialism).

Along with Dick Cheney and John Ashcroft started a prison camp for detainees who were suspected of terrorism (3 for Socialism).

Passed the Patriot Act essentially overnight which stripped Americans of all their freedom (4 for Socialism).

Threw Habeous Corpus out the window during a time of "war" (Hitler, a socialist also did this 5 for socialism).

Now, all 5 of these things had happened before Bush ran again for Office. No one cried Socialism then did they? Before you freak out. I voted for Bush. Why? I thought maybe he'd start fighting the war the way it needed to be fought (a surge did take place, and it was a good thing). He wasn't going to raise my taxes, and to be honest...John Kerry is 100 times the elitist rich kid fuck disconnected from the American Public than Bush could have ever been.

I supported my President not out of Nationalism, not out of Patriotism, and not because I love Jesus...I simply voted for him because America needs someone who does what they say they are going to do the majority of the time. Granted Bush failed miserably at this, I honestly think without Bush in office again, John Kerry would have ran this country into the ground a lot harder. Kerry ran on Gay Rights and nothing else. Flip flopped on every issue during debates, and picked the slime John Edwards for his VP. (Palin one upped the 2004 race for WTF are you seriously trying to be president if he dies).

I never supported the Iraq war. After 9/11, we should have went into Afghanistan (were the Taliban an Al Qaeda where believed to be known) and dropped everything we had on them. George Bush should have got on TV the next day and said, "If you fuck with us again, we will make what happened in Afghanistan look like a picnic"...Instead, Bush made our good boys and dikes look like the most disorganized, pathetic military force in the world.

That rant is over. Back to Obama being a socialist. Hopefully you have an ounce of integrity and can label Bush a fiscally irresponsible liberal. I'm not going to call him a Socialist because if any American President is going to be labeled that, he is going to have to be labeled that based on his administration and facts. FDR started the New Deal which has birthed all of our Social Programs that barely prove to work. Social Security, Welfare, Labor Laws, Minimum Wage, and the list goes on. FDR was in theory, a 'socialist'. I really feel that I don't have to elaborate on this anymore. Obama ran a campaign on cutting taxes on the middle class and taking a 2 percent increase on Federal Income Tax on those who make 250,000 dollars annually or more. Sound familiar? Bill Clinton did the same thing and that was the only time in American History post deficit 19th century this country had a surplus. (Republicans also ran congress at this time but all they really did was get Clinton to sign a bill that limited welfare benefits).
,br>All I'm saying to all you fucking idiots out there, give Obama a chance. He is going to do somethings with your tax dollars that might prove to be beneficial in your lifetime. Clean energy, mandating the auto industry to make electric cars, investing in wind power and clean coal technology, improving the road systems, lowering health care costs and keeping it privatized, and the list goes on. All these social programs will put Americans to work and create jobs that will stay in America. You can export a wind power technician to Mexico...the wind mill will always be in America. Improving the highway infastructure would create great jobs with benefits for decades to come. In other words if you got hired by the Missouri dept. of Transportation, it would be a hard working life long job like our Grandparents used to work...a NEW MIDDLE CLASS. Is that really socialism? I don't think it is. It doesn't sound like new social programs, it sounds like government spending to uplift our dying middle class.

I am a staunch libertarian and voted for Barack Obama. I believe he could possibly do some things that might not be economically sound, but we are all in a tough bind at the moment. I mostly voted for him because of his social views regarding decriminalizing drugs, gay rights, the wars, and blah de dah...