Back when Barack Obama was running for president, he famously explained his socialist governing philosophy to a five-year-old:Emphasis mine."We’ve got to make sure that people who have more money help the people who have less money. If you had a whole pizza, and your friend had no pizza, would you give him a slice?"He made a similar analogy later on in the campaign when responding to John McCain’s assertions that Obama is a socialist:"By the end of the week, he’ll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich."No one’s arguing about how nice it is to share pizza, toys, and PB&J sandwiches. And Americans as a whole are a generous people. Back in 2007, charitable giving in this nation exceeded $300 billion for the first time. The problem is when a third party — government bureaucracy — takes your pizza, toys, and sandwiches and decides how much you get to keep and how much goes to the people they decide are worthy of enjoying the things you bought and paid for with the money you earned.
That’s not sharing. That’s redistribution. It’s something that had its start with FDR’s New Deal, reemerged during LBJ’s Great Society, and now seems poised to catch up to the socialist states that the American left has long admired in Europe.
Fascists, unfortunately, don't see government wealth distribution as a problem, but rather a duty. After a whopping 90 minutes of floor "debate" (i.e., reading of bumper sticker slogans) -- and this coming less than 12 hours after the text of the 1,000+ page bill was released in the middle of the night -- Congressional Fascists today did their duty and passed H.R. 1, after locking Republican representatives out of the deliberations, without the 48-hours of review promised by Politburo leadership, and before member of the House could have a chance to read the bill and figure out what, exactly, they were voting on.
The text of this bill was released while the citizens slept, passed by the House before we could have our day's second cup of coffee, will surely fly through the Senate before people get home from work tonight, and will be signed into law Monday before any any of this sinks in and public outrage can be registered -- this, despite Obama's promise not to sign any bill into law until "the American public [has] an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days."
By "American people," he must have meant Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid who, technically, are American people who have been commenting on the "stimulus" for well over five days.
During his floor speech, Aaron Schock (R-IL) quoted Lincoln: "What kills a skunk is the publicity it brings itself." Indeed, the surest way to avoid publicity and public scrutiny is to implement "Change" behind closed doors under the cover of darkness. The fact is, Obama-friendly lobbyists had more time to read the bill than did our elected representatives before casting their vote. If this doesn't clue you in to the way this government plans to operate in coming years, then nothing will.
Update 5:10PM: A video is worth a thousand words.
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