The Revolution

October 30, 2008 by Les Smart.

     We are on the verge of a Socialist revolution in the United States of America. You can call the classes what you wish - the peasants or poor, the proletariat or the middle class, the nobles or the rich – they are practically the same as in Russia in 1905.  Economic times were and are difficult and liberal and socialists doctrines have and are giving rise to discontent among the proletariat (middle class).  The active revolutionaries were the intelligentsia in Russia of 2005.  Today it is the Democrats and the media.  The Tsar was unpopular as is President Bush and the downfall of their family/party was and is desired.

     This is not rhetoric it is fact.  In 1902 Lenin published his work “What is to be Done” that called for the organization of ‘the working class’ (middle class).  Does all of this sound familiar?

     So, Obama proposes no new taxes on anyone earning under $250,000.  Although the Reagan tax cuts will run out in 2010 and everyone’s taxes will go up, this can be rectified through legislation.  (I earned around $30,000 per year when the Reagan tax cuts came into effect and my taxes were cut.  I suppose I may have been considered rich at the time but by who’s standards?)   How may this affect the middle class (proletariat)?

     First, think of who earns $250,000 and up in this country.  Doctors, Dentists, many lawyers, professional athletes, small business owners, company executives, you may think of others but let’s first look at the small business owner.

     Running a small business is a risky and difficult task.  Some of these business are solid, some are ‘iffy’ and others are near failure.  Increasing their taxes will do several things:  1) It will put some of them out of business and they will either fall into the middle class or even possibly into poverty depending on how bad their finances are and how marketable their skills are in the current market.  2) Many will not be able to absorb the drain of this increased tax so they will pass it on to the consumer (another name for the middle class) or cut cost such as labor.  The middle classes will either absorb their tax burden through increased costs and/or the poor will increase with any laid-off worker who can’t find new employment.  3) The very wealthy can and some will leave this country to avoid paying this increased tax burden or find loopholes to avoid them.   So, who really will pick up the tab for Obama’s new proposed programs?

     Another interesting story will be the doctors.  These professionals (the rich or nobles) run small businesses at their offices and will be faced with passing the expense to their patients with increased fees and/or laying-off employees.  However, they will also be faced with the possibility of Nationalized Medicine.  A Nationally run medical system will need to regulate the fees of the doctors or they will not be able to meet the expense of running such a program.  The financial incentive people have today to invest time and money into a medical degree will dwindle and we will slowly see fewer doctors.

     Like all other socialist regimes in the history of the world, it will be important for those in control of these government run programs to quiet opposition who may stir displeasure with what they do.  The Democrats are already talking about re-establishing The Fairness Doctrine.  Why?  They are unhappy with the influence and power of Talk Radio that has been dominated by Conservatives regardless of many attempts to compete with them with liberal stations and liberal talk shows.  Who will they silence next and how?  Listen to the words and rhetoric of the Democrats who berate religious citizens and citizens who own arms.  A Democrat in Pennsylvania called his constituants racists because they will probably support McCain.  Opponents are ‘greedy’ and the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate is anti-intellectual.

     These are troubling and frightening times and either American citizens want this revolution or they are ignorant of its coming.  A dynamic speaker with a message of change is guiding them to it.  Obama said, “We will change America and the world.”  He openly advocates redistribution of wealth, my fellow Americans, that IS SOCIALISM.   Those who oppose it are not advocating greed but rather the ideals and fundamentals this country was built on and prospered with for over 230 years.

     Does the country have problems?  Yes.  But is solving those problems worth turning the control of our daily lives over to the government?  Is a Medical system where a political bureaucrat determines who gets treated and how they get treated better than what we have now?  Do we want to turn our banks and our medical system over to the people who have destroyed Social Security, Medicaid and the very banking system they are now bailing out and buying up?  How many aspects of your life do you want to turn over to government?  Socialism limits freedom.

     Everyone should vote but everyone should consider what you are actually voting for.  What change are you willing to accept?   Both candidates offer change from the current leadership but one is striving to lead our nation to socialism and, if history tells us anything, all socialist nations fail.

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