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Obama Has His Say on Communism, Socialism and Capitalism-They're All the Same
 Barack Obama told an audience of Argentinian youth that the differences between socialism and capitalism make interesting conversation but just pick whatever works. The ideological-left US president suddenly doesn’t have an affinity for ideology.He said in the past there was a sharp division between communists, socialists and capitalists but that is merely an intellectual argument and it’s not so today. The Marxist in the White House is erasing the lines between two dangerous ideologies and the one that made the US great, just as he erased our borders. This is a man who would be at home in communist China. "So often in the past there has been a division between left and right, between capitalists and communists or socialists, and especially in the Americas, that’s been a big debate," Obama said at the Buenos Aires town hall. "Those are interesting intellectual arguments, but I think for your generation, you should be practical and just choose from what works. You don’t have to worry about whether it really fits into socialist theory or capitalist theory. You should just decide what works." For Obama, high taxation, wild spending, government agency domination over the people and heavy regulations work which tells you what he is. Obama made his comments in response to a question about establishing nonprofit community organizations and said it’s important to get government and private sector investment, which for him is a sketchy relationship between Wall Street and DC. "To president Castro, I said you’ve made great progress in educating young people [Cuban dictators indoctrinate its youth]. Every child in Cuba gets a basic education. Medical care, the life expectancy of Cubans is equivalent to the United States despite it being a very poor country because they have access to health care. That’s a huge achievement," he said about the repressive regime. "They should be congratulated. But you drive around Havana and you see the economy is not working. It looks like it did in the 1950s." The US president likes socialism but also likes the capitalism, both of which he has subscribed to for the last seven years. Then he told them not to rigidly adhere to labels as if the systems of socialism and capitalism are mere labels. "You have to be practical in asking yourself, How do you achieve the goals of equality and inclusion, but also recognize the market system produces a lot of wealth and goods and services and innovation and it also gives individuals freedom because they have initiative, depending on the social issues you are trying to address, what works? What you’ll find is the most successful societies and economies are the ones that are rooted in a market-based system but also realize a market does not work by itself. It has to have a social and moral and ethical and community basis." His love of wealth redistribution and social [unfair] justice trumps all. During his trip, he told the Cuban dictator that his revolution was like ours -- it was a liberation movement -- and he told Argentinians earlier in the week that he is frustrated with the separation of powers. Posted by: gorb 2016-03-25 |
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