Obama of Sherwood Forest

After carefully avoiding this pitfall for the entire campaign, Obama finally said the word that all conservatives have been patiently waiting to interject into the campaign. Ladies and Gentlemen, let’s talk about socialism. As my friends know, I am a fairly moderate to left leaning person even though I maintain no political affiliations but have no tolerance for socialistic policy in our current society. Here’s why…

Socialism (on paper) is designed to ensure that everyone shares in the wealth and that we all enjoy a better standard of living. The major flaw is that it assumes ALL people will work equally hard to achieve their goals and that’s just not true. There will always be people who want to do nothing (i.e. Welfare “lifers”, guests on Jerry Springer, etc.) which means a portion of the money you worked so hard to earn will be used to carry the slackers who are content to receive a handout. As a “producer”, I have a serious problem with this scenario! I’m all for helping out people when they need a hand (short term only) but do NOT believe in redistributing the wealth as it punishes those who took initiative and achieved success. The next step after socialist policy is the introduction of Marxist ideology and we all know how well Communism has worked out for Russia and China.

I’ve long held the belief of equilibrium in most aspects of life and the economic arena is no different. Think of it like this, if you are killing yourself to advance only to see a large portion of your success taken from you to be given to those who choose to do nothing then how long are you really going to continue down your current path? Probably not too long (and if you do then I have a rock that needs to be moved to the top of a hill…) so you start to slide closer to the center because you produce less. You might say that’s OK because the center is still pretty good but don’t forget that all of the other successful people are doing the same so the center begins to fall. As more people “give up” the center goes even lower and lower. The end condition is a welfare state where no one has a desire to innovate or produce anything because anyone who produces will be taxed at an obscene rate to cover the spread for those who do nothing. At this point, no one works and our civilization collapses under the weight of our own socialistic ideology.

I don’t think the introduction of the word “Socialism” into the campaign will cause any disruption to the Obama machine as the momentum is way too strong. On that point, I don’t think the Republicans are offering anything better…only a different strategy with the same ends of screwing the middle class over and leaving us with the hangover from their spending party. Socialism isn’t the answer in a free society because people have free will so it’s time to look for better answers than the Robin Hood mentality of taking from the rich to give to the poor.

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