Is President Obama really interested in the welfare of America?

I remember when then Senator Barack Obama was campaigning for President. Someone in the audience asked him if he were aware that, by lowering taxes, he would actually increase revenue flowing into the U. S. Treasury, and decrease the deficit. His reply was both astounding and revealing, and I paraphrase: "That is of no concern to me. I am more concerned about fairness."

What that told me was that he was more interested in taking money from one group of citizens and transferring it to another group of citizens than he was in improving the financial health of the country. His view put into shoe-leather the political / economic philosophy of Karl Marx: "From each according to his ability; to each according to his need." In short, President Obama is a Marxist, though few dare to be that honest about him.

Five days before his inauguration early in 2009, President-elect Obama made an ominous prediction. He said, "We are five days away from beginning the fundamental transformation of America." He wasn't kidding. Having watched and listened to Mr. Obama for over six years now, I have become convinced he is a global Marxist. Not content merely with national socialism, the President is systematically pursuing global socialism, in my opinion.

His global socialism can be seen in  his approval of allowing hordes of illegal aliens to cascade into our country. He makes a token show of enforcing the borders, but his policies encourage a flood of illegals. And why? you ask. Well, if one is a global socialist, he wishes to redistribute the wealth of America to the disadvantaged masses of Latin America. What better way than to allow them to flood across our borders, their well-being subsidized by over-burdened American taxpayers.

From the President's perspective, it is unfair that Americans should have it so good. It is morally incumbent upon Americans, whether they agree with the idea or not, to have their wealth transferred to the poor of the world.

President Obama's global Marxism can also be seen in his response to the Ebola outbreak. Where past policy and common sense would dictate that we should close our borders to all visitors from infected countries, that is not the President's policy at all. One can almost hear him reasoning to himself, "Why is it fair that poverty-stricken African nations have Ebola and Americans do not?"

So the President's political and economic philosophy, it seems to me, is not directed toward "What is good for America?" Rather, it is directed toward, "How can I best advance the cause of global Marxism?"

I am neither the first, nor the only American to think this. Thomas Sowell, who can hardly be accused of being a racist, has written an interesting article. It is entitled, "Obama's Priority: NOT Protecting Americans."

Here is his assessment of the President's refusal to bar infected Ebola carriers from entering the US:

At a minimum, it suggests that he takes his conception of himself as a citizen of the world more seriously than he takes his role as president of the United States. At worst, he may consider Americans’ interests expendable in the grand scheme of things internationally. If so, this would explain a lot of his foreign policy disasters around the world, which seem inexplicable otherwise.

As we move closer and closer to the end of the President's second term, I suspect we will see more and more decisions and policies that will help answer the question, "Is President Obama really interested in the welfare of America?" He would insist that he is, of course. I suspect I will differ with him.

The Party of Santa Claus

I agree with Rush Limbaugh that the Democratic Party won the election of 2012 by becoming the Party of Santa Claus. Establishment Republicans are completely in error, for example, when they insist that the GOP must alter its position on illegal immigration. Voters did not vote for President  Barack Obama on the basis that he would give illegal aliens unconditional amnesty. The different voting constituencies voted for Obama because he would give them free handouts.

President Obama shrewdly gave his constituencies assurances they would get what they wanted from him, and he succeeded in portraying Mitt Romney as the person who would take them away. Obama promised women the ongoing freedom to practice any form of sexual activity they wanted without fear that the government would take away from them their rights to kill their unwanted babies. And he portrayed Romney as someone who who would take away those rights from women. Obama succeeded.

To students Obama promised they could get a loan for college no matter what, and they voted for him. To lower classes, Obama promised Obamaphones. One woman had 200 of them. To unemployed workers, Obama promised almost unending months of unemployment compensation, that which Romney would have greatly reduced.  To Union Workers Obama promised their pensions would be subsidized by the government. And of course to all, Obama promised free health care insurance.

And America bought into the Santa Claus mentality. GOP blue-bloods have contented themselves with becoming Santa Claus Lite - as in the case of George Bush, who  pushed government-subsidized prescription drug programs. Romney would cleverly give the voters of Massachusetts RomneyCare, but he would deny those rights to the nation as a whole. But who really wants Santa Claus Lite?

When I was growing up the concern on the right was the Soviet Union's threatened takeover of the world through nuclear military might. Back in those days, the mantra on the left was, "I'd rather be Red than Dead!"

But now the mantra for those on the left has changed. It has become, "I'd rather be Fed than Free." Americans don't realize it, but when free people trade freedom for financial security, they become serfs on the Government Plantation. And that's what America has become, in large part because the left owns the educational establishment, the major news networks, and the entertainment industry. The left has successfully educated Americans into believing that those who have learned to take care of themselves exceptionally well are evil and selfish (unless they are committed leftists, of course). Leftists have succeeded in teaching many of the hoi polloi that normal people depend on the government to be their Savior. America is no longer free. We have become the country of Santa Claus. Welcome to the USSA!

Welcome to the country of Santa Claus, where the people have sold their own freedom for a loaf of bread. And an Obamaphone. And a hugely-subsidized Government Motors Volt that no one wants to own.