Obama the Socialist?

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(Free-Press-Release.com) July 18, 2011 --

New York Post columnist Jonah Goldberg wrote in a November 2008 pseudo-retrospective on Obama’s presidency that, “It’s hard to believe that just four years ago, some were talking about Barack Obama as a national savior, a secular redeemer, a ‘light worker.’ Even more shocking, President Obama lost the nomination of his own party to none other than Hillary Clinton. How did we get here?” In addition to recapping how Joe Biden’s embarrassing gaffes forced Obama to replace him, which “sapped his presidency of much of its energy,” Goldberg fantasized about how Obama’s cronies “demanded very large cuts in the military budget, a sweeping government expansion into the role of healthcare, and in a move that experts agree caused the Wall Street Panic of 2010, they persuaded Mr. Obama to make the government’s partial ownership of the remaining ‘Big Five’ banks permanent.”

All too true. More than half way through Obama’s presidency, socialist liberalism has come to America, and it hasn’t been pretty.

First, the president’s soft foreign policy: he has increased defense spending to record levels, with a proposed total of $1.2 trillion in real terms for 2012, according to military policy analyst Christopher Hellman. Todd Harris of the non-partisan Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments testifiedbefore the House Committee on the Budget that “The total national defense budget request for FY 2011, adjusted for inflation, is at the highest dollar amount since World War II and is higher than total defense spending at any point in the Vietnam or Korean Wars, even if the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are excluded.”

Unlike the good old days, when George W. Bush responsibly presided over an aggressive right-wing military policy, Obama has overseen only five different wars—Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan and Yemen, in addition to dramatically increasing drone strikes, which have killed hundreds of civilians. He has further heeded the left by building new military bases in Afghanistan and Columbia (among others), and appointed Attorney General Eric Holder, who served as the lawyer for Chiquita Brands International, which was charged with funding Columbian death squads (see 1:08:52). In addition to refusing to prosecute Bush for war crimes and the telecommunications corporations for illegally wiretapping Americans, Obama has expanded government secrecy and spying privileges. He has also failed to outlaw extraordinary rendition, which allows intelligence agencies to send prisoners to other countries to be tortured, and he has cracked down on morewhistleblowers than all previous presidents combined.

As Goldberg foresaw, Obama has initiated “a sweeping government expansion into the role of healthcare” by forcing tens of millions of Americans to buy healthcare from the for-profit insurance corporations. Rather than reforming the system, Obama has maintained America’s place as the only industrialized country that compels its citizens to obtain coverage from companies that are legally required to satisfy Wall Street shareholders, devote entire departments to devising excuses to decline coverage, and consider reimbursing sick patients a “loss.”

Obama has also expanded the number of people eligible for Medicaid at a time when state legislatures are enacting savage cuts throughout the country, leaving many who technically qualify for coverage helpless. Because of Obama’s socialist government takeover, the privatized insurance corporations now have tens of millions of new customers. Obamacare also permits the industry to continue to legally murder people through the ERISAlaw, “purge” small businesses that have too many sick employees to turn a profit, and shift more cost to patients by forcing them into high deductible Health Savings Accounts (HSA).

As for Obama’s socialist economic policies...

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