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With a smile, Obama offers the middle class a leash

Obama has big plans for everyone in the middle classes - lower, middle, and upper. It starts with wedding the middle class inextricably to government, making them to some significant degree dependent upon government for their sustenance. After that, no resistance will be possible, and Obama's vision of government 'solutions' to every perceived problem or injustice will truly be possible. This is the route to leftist control of government for a generation or more.

Forget about banning talk radio. After Obama starts showering new thousands in tax "credits" on families who currently pay no taxes, but are otherwise independent people, they will do what everyone does - adjust their budgets accordingly. If they are reaping the $5000+ that Obama is targeting at those on the lower end of the working income range, it will be a hard thing to refuse him when he insists that "if Republicans win, they will take away your tax credits." Suddenly the credits are covering the entire food budget, or half the rent, and you can't live without it. You're dependent, and unless you have more spine than most people who find themselves in that predicament, you're likely to continue to draw the checks than to demand your independence. This widespread dependency on the part of hard working people has no precedent in American history, and it will likely be a permanent change - once people build this money into their budgets, it will be hard to remove it, even if it is demonstrably true that making working people dependent on government over the long haul hurts rather than helps them.

With dependency comes control (look it up) and ultimately bitterness: first self reproach, then self justification, then entitlement, then finally hatred for the hand that feeds you.

With a smile, Obama offers the middle class a leash.

TOTA

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Obama seeks MIDDLE CLASS DEPENDENCY

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



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