Socialism Rising

Did I suddenly wake up in a socialist country this morning? Did we vote on that while we were sleeping?

I've been worried for a while now about socialism lurking in the background, waiting to wreak itself on our country if the unimaginable happens and Barack Obama is elected. How could it not? Barack Obama has been steeped in Marxist associates and mentors since back in high school. Frank Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky, William Ayers, et al. Even his most influential mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who built his church on the foundation of the thoroughly Marxist Black Liberation Theology. Obama, the single most liberal Senator in office, is steeped in Marxism and Socialism.

I was going to give him until March or so before we went full tilt into Marxist legislation.

Don't I feel silly. I was way to optimistic to believe we had until March.

It turns out President Bush is in a race to beat him to it.

Way too few people understand that the Federal Government pumping untold billions into "bailouts" to private companies like the Wall Street banks - in exchange for equity positions in those companies - is socialism. What else would you call government ownership of business?

OPPOSE THE BAILOUT!!!

Newt Gingrich went on record today predicting that anyone who votes for the bailout this week will be defeated in November. If we had any sense, he would be right.

It shouldn't wait until November. There should be firings right now. Cabinet members who had responsibility to keep our economy from melting down, and have failed extravagantly to do so, should be fired immediately. Paulson. Bernake. And their important deputies. President Bush needs to do that tomorrow. To not do so is gross negligence.

Democratic Congressional leadership, who caused this crisis with government intrusion into the capital markets to require these banks to make loans "more acessible" and caused the sub-prime meltdown, should resign tomorrow. That would be Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, and everyone who championed the Community Reinvestment Act. To not do so is gross negligence.

I'm not enthralled with government at the moment. Nor, do I want to hand them $700 billion dollars in the hope that they will fix the mess that they caused.

What a mess.