{"id":3049,"date":"2008-10-30T08:26:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T12:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2008-11-03T14:45:22","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T19:45:22","slug":"a-sobering-look-ahead-to-barack-obamas-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/a-sobering-look-ahead-to-barack-obamas-america\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sobering Look Ahead to Barack Obama&#8217;s America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/a-sobering-look-ahead-to-barack-obamas-america\/\">Pajamas Media<\/a> | Bernard Chapin | Oct. 30, 2008<\/p>\n<p>By 2012 or 2016, the alteration of America\u2019s fabric will be severe and profound as we will have socialism in our time. Even though political leftists abhor the word, socialism is entirely in keeping with their cherished preferences and initiatives. They salivate over the notion of omnipotent government and wish to regulate the citizenry in innumerable ways. This is evident in their stance on an individual\u2019s negotiations with his or her employer, their ability to say \u201cno\u201d to union membership, and the absurd belief that carbon dioxide \u2014 a life-sustaining chemical compound we exhale \u2014 is a \u201cdangerous pollutant\u201d in need of environmental removal.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from a woman\u2019s right to murder her offspring, there is nothing in this land that Senator Obama and his ilk do not wish to command and control. Indeed, not until Hillary Clinton was dispatched over the summer did the presidential frontrunner ever once embrace a centrist position. Obama has never seen a tax cut he liked or a federal program he wanted to eliminate. He is what he is: a leftist\u2019s leftist.  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Today we stand on the brink of socialism. During the recent loan crisis, Representative Jeb Hensarling dubbed the monstrous bailout package \u2014 that the government volunteered us to finance \u2014 something that places us on \u201cthe slippery slope to socialism.\u201d He was right; although, one could make a convincing argument that we have been sliding in that direction since 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Already Washington is buying up banks. Given their current interventionist stance, nothing will stop our kleptocratic elites from slowly taking over the auto industry or any other entity judged \u201ctoo big to fail.\u201d To neo-socialists, government does not exist to serve the people. The people exist to serve the government. Everything we earn and own should be available to the federocracy as tribute. What becomes of our savings is none of our business.<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/a-sobering-look-ahead-to-barack-obamas-america\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pajamas Media | Bernard Chapin | Oct. 30, 2008 By 2012 or 2016, the alteration of America\u2019s fabric will be severe and profound as we will have socialism in our time. Even though political leftists abhor the word, socialism is entirely in keeping with their cherished preferences and initiatives. They salivate over the notion of &#8230; <a title=\"A Sobering Look Ahead to Barack Obama&#8217;s America\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/a-sobering-look-ahead-to-barack-obamas-america\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Sobering Look Ahead to Barack Obama&#8217;s America\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,72,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-leftism","category-totalitarian-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}