The blogosphere is buzzing about this video posted on YouTube Sunday night. It’s Barack Obama musing about how best to redistribute wealth in America in a Chicago Public Radio interview in 2001.
Not whether, but how: Through the courts or through legislation?
A caller asks The One to explain how he would do “reparative economic work.” Obama gives the legislative route two thumbs up as his preferred method of “breaking free of the constraints” placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution and then burbles about cobbling together the “actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change.”
Thank you!!! I've actually been taking screenshots of everything on a few different messageboards as well as downloading things like this in case the internet gets shut down. lol
I have a few hard drives that I've passed around for people to copy in case martial law is enacted or in the event that the people come out on top of the fascists and are looking to prosecute them either as war criminals or as accessories to the capitol crimes of 9/11. :D
Krypton
Anyone who says Obama is going to redistribute wealth is doing nothing but exaggerating essentially nothing. Wow, so a person making $300,000 a year is going to pay an extra $1000 in taxes....ooo0o0o0o0o0o...scarrrrry...:rolleyes:
Gee, they'll be begging on the streets after that huh?:rolleyes:
Trancer-X
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Originally posted by Krypton
Anyone who says Obama is going to redistribute wealth is doing nothing but exaggerating essentially nothing. Wow, so a person making $300,000 a year is going to pay an extra $1000 in taxes....ooo0o0o0o0o0o...scarrrrry...:rolleyes:
Gee, they'll be begging on the streets after that huh?:rolleyes:
What makes you so sure that he's not going to do like practically every other President has done and change his tune once he gets in office?
Krypton
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Originally posted by Trancer-X
What makes you so sure that he's not going to do like practically every other President has done and change his tune once he gets in office?
What reason do you have to say he completely ignore his campaign promises, especially the tax issues (which is a central theme of his campaign)? It's in his best interest to fulfill his promise because if he doesn't, it'll be political suicide.
noikeee
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Originally posted by Trancer-X
I've actually been taking screenshots of everything on a few different messageboards as well as downloading things like this in case the internet gets shut down. lol
I have a few hard drives that I've passed around for people to copy in case martial law is enacted
:stongue:
You're taking the piss now, aren't you?
LatinLover
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Originally posted by Krypton
What reason do you have to say he completely ignore his campaign promises, especially the tax issues (which is a central theme of his campaign)? It's in his best interest to fulfill his promise because if he doesn't, it'll be political suicide.
If he can lie about his friendship with radicals, im pretty sure he can lie about policies also :rolleyes:
PS: anyways this is not a concern to Obama beacuse 1. The media dosent even bother to investigate and 2. He has supporters like you that believe everything he says
Shakka
Adamant supporters of anyone and anything are very difficult to convince to change their opinions. Such has been the case with George Bush, though certainly not as much in the last 4 years as the first 4). With the love affair that is Obama, it is not surprising that his defenders will, metaphorically, fight to the death to defend his clearly radical ambitions. With a likely congressional supermajority and given the context of that radio interview where he thinks "redistribution" and "economic justice" should be achieved legislatively vs. via the courts, the next few years should be very interesting and very telling. No doubt his defenders and the media will be lapping it up for a while, but his true colors should really shine depending on how he pursues his agenda.
Lebezniatnikov
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Originally posted by Shakka
Adamant supporters of anyone and anything are very difficult to convince to change their opinions. Such has been the case with George Bush, though certainly not as much in the last 4 years as the first 4). With the love affair that is Obama, it is not surprising that his defenders will, metaphorically, fight to the death to defend his clearly radical ambitions. With a likely congressional supermajority and given the context of that radio interview where he thinks "redistribution" and "economic justice" should be achieved legislatively vs. via the courts, the next few years should be very interesting and very telling. No doubt his defenders and the media will be lapping it up for a while, but his true colors should really shine depending on how he pursues his agenda.
I'm withholding judgment for the time being, but I'll only point out that this idea that terrifies you so hasn't always been very controversial:
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The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. . . . The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. . . . It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.
Adam Smith, father of capitalism.
Shakka
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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Adam Smith, father of capitalism.
Not necessarily father of capitalism, more like father of modern economic thought. I'm not sure the two are one and the same.
The17sss
oops... didn't notice this thread till after I posted the thread on "Smells Like Socialist Spirit".... different commentary making the point a little better that's not being made in this thread so far... check it out
Capitalizt
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Originally posted by The17sss
oops... didn't notice this thread till after I posted the thread on "Smells Like Socialist Spirit".... different commentary making the point a little better that's not being made in this thread so far... check it out
It's the same video. Just delete your post. kthxbai
