Obama's Collectivism.

In 2008, when it became evident that Obama would become the next president of the United States, we all feared that he would become the most liberal president this country has ever had since President Roosevelt in the 1930’s and most recently Lyndon Baines Johnson, who single-handedly transformed this country from the hard working mentality of the 1950’s and the 1960’s  (the mindset that attracted my family and other Europeans to come to this country) to the socialistic culture we have today. 

The United States today, is an “Entitlement Haven” due to the continual give-away policies of this administration and the liberal congress of the past four years, who never waste an opportunity to spend, spend and spend on the shoulders of working Americans.  Sadly, this working segment is constantly shrinking due to the lack of available jobs created in the private sector.  What this president fails to understand is that creating jobs in the public sector does not create new wealth but re-distributes the same wealth to others, a form of collectivism. 

This type of economic rumination rewards laziness while at the same time, stifling innovation, motivation, initiative and incentive, the very traits that made America of the 1950’s and the 1960’s the driving force of our economic system, the land of opportunity for many generations of Americans. 

President Obama and his cronies in Washington are intent and are so far succeeding in the actual, “spreading of the wealth” by imposing a form of collectivism that at best, will transform this country into a true and legitimate socialist entity. "Spreading the wealth" is the democratic idiom that rewards those who do not work by taking from the people who work.  Unfortunately, it is not just in taxes that we, the working people  pay the price.  Benefits for the non-working Americans are also questionable because while they receive welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing, utility assistance etc. etc. they also get top-notch absolutely free medical coverage (benefits) when the average working man or woman has a co-pay every time he or she goes to the doctor or a hospital.  Our government in the Obamanomics’ world rewards the undeserved, while the worker, who is footing the bill, is penalized.  This is collectivism of the highest form.

But, what is Collectivism and why it is so dangerous for the United States of America?  Collectivism is the philosophical theory that the individual is not an end to himself but is only a tool to serve the ends of the whole, whether it is a race of people, a class of people, a political group etc. etc.  It is, the subjugation of the individual to a group or the whole. In other words, Obama’s wants and expects each working American to give money to every non-working American (by way of taxation).  In plain terms, if you earn $2 and your neighbor earns $1, you must give him or her .50 so that both of you can have the same $1.50 regardless of any other incidental.    In economic terms, Collectivism or Obamanomic is a theory that advocates collective control over the production and the distribution of goods and services for a country that was once the best hope for mankind on the face of the earth.

Yes, President Obama is advocating the subjugation of the working people, the taxpayers, businesses and other entrepreneurs to those who choose not to work and those who are intent on living on the shoulders of others.  It is at best, a form of collective anarchism, a socio-economic outlook that emphasizes the interdependence of an individual so that collectively everyone can achieve the same goals at the expense of individual goals, desires and freedoms.  It is one for all and all for none mentality.   

What presidential aspirant, Al Gore, failed to do in the 2000 presidential elections when he ran his presidential campaign on the facade of rich versus poor, Obama is succeeding today by offering a class warfare economic formula between the working class and the poor of this country. Why then is President Obama proposing to increase taxes of families making $200,000 while still maintaining the entitlements of millions of Americans who have never worked, nor put a dime into the system in the form of taxes?

 Why is Obama threatening to cut Medicare (for retired workers) to pay for these entitlements (for non-workers) that cost the American people millions of dollars year after year while taking away people’s initiative to work and be self-sufficient.  And why does President Obama believe that in cutting spending, he does not want to touch the entitlements that are at the very center of the debate while at the same time vowing to raise taxes of individuals and families.  Raising taxes for the people who work to protect those programs that he favors is not why the people elected this president, nor is it a healthy formula for a thriving economic system.  The redistribution of wealth is not what this country is about.  If we want to continue the same standard of living of past years, we must reward those qualities that made this country great so many decades ago i.e. hard work, innovation, motivation and initiative.

Handouts, subsidies, government assistance and poverty programs have not worked in the past and will not work in the future.   As Ronald Reagan said more than 30 years ago ". government is not the solution, government is the problem.".