Posted by
TOTA on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:18:45 PM
The overarching Obama goal is to make the middle class dependent upon government spending.
For decades, the left has enjoyed a disproportionate share of the elderly vote by scaring seniors about the future of social security and medicare. Millions of seniors have voted for the left as a result, and who can blame them? Many live on the edge financially, any reduction of SS benefits or increase in medicare payments could be crippling to them.
Obama seeks to put the US middle class in the same position. He seeks nearly a trillion dollars per year in targeted tax credits - many will go to people who pay no income taxes. These will be naked cash transfers. You can be certain that once these programs are in place, the new leftist election cry will be, "The republicans will take away your child care credits! They will take away your $1000/year credit!"
Until now, the middle class has remained fairly independent of government. In his 1971 "Rules for Radicals", communist Saul Alinsky emphasized the importance of appealing to the middle class, and tying them to government. Alinsky's book served as the basis of Hillary's dissertation in college, and served as a blueprint for Obama's community organizing (he taught other organizers using the book as his bible). Obama's campaign is pure Alinskyism, through and through.
By appealing to the pride, needs, and desires of the middle class, the revolution moves forward with the middle class as willing participants.
That is what Obama seeks.
He wants you and everyone you know to either be more dependent upon government, or to cough up more of your money to encourage greater dependency in others. Once these hooks are into the middle class, there will be no turning back. There's not a single significant income transfer program in the country's history that has been removed once implemented. At best (see welfare reform) a decades long effort can limit these programs.
But once you start giving people cash on a regular basis, they will adjust the rest of their economic decisions, so that these payments will become central to their income. Large swaths of the middle class will become government dependents, and the future of American politics will never be the same.
Greg Buls