I don't know Joe the Plumber BUT I've heard of Karl Marx

I know socialism when I see it and hear it. Barack Obama wants to turn us into the United Socialist States of America. Mark J. Perry explains why Socialism Failed (and will continue to fail). Here is an excerpt:

Socialism is the Big Lie of the twentieth century. While it promised prosperity, equality, and security, it delivered poverty, misery, and tyranny. Equality was achieved only in the sense that everyone was equal in his or her misery.

In the same way that a Ponzi scheme or chain letter initially succeeds but eventually collapses, socialism may show early signs of success. But any accomplishments quickly fade as the fundamental deficiencies of central planning emerge. It is the initial illusion of success that gives government intervention its pernicious, seductive appeal. In the long run, socialism has always proven to be a formula for tyranny and misery.

A pyramid scheme is ultimately unsustainable because it is based on faulty principles. Likewise, collectivism is unsustainable in the long run because it is a flawed theory. Socialism does not work because it is not consistent with fundamental principles of human behavior. The failure of socialism in countries around the world can be traced to one critical defect: it is a system that ignores incentives.

In a capitalist economy, incentives are of the utmost importance. Market prices, the profit-and-loss system of accounting, and private property rights provide an efficient, interrelated system of incentives to guide and direct economic behavior. Capitalism is based on the theory that incentives matter!

Under socialism, incentives either play a minimal role or are ignored totally. A centrally planned economy without market prices or profits, where property is owned by the state, is a system without an effective incentive mechanism to direct economic activity. By failing to emphasize incentives, socialism is a theory inconsistent with human nature and is therefore doomed to fail. Socialism is based on the theory that incentives don't matter!

I strongly encourage you to read the entire article, written in 1995 before any of us heard of Barack Hussein Obama. It explains why socialism has always failed and will always failed and, therefore, why Obama's plans for this country will do great damage to my country. Therefore I am dead set against Obama being elected on the basis of his political philosophies alone. But I believe that character issues take his possible election from the category of bad all the way to dangerous.

Let me tell you what I know about Barack Obama beyond the fact that he is trying to bring us closer to becoming a socialist society.

A family acquaintance who is a slam-dunk Democrat worked with Obama on one of his campaigns. He and his wife are both voting for McCain this year. Why? He said because "Obama is the worst man to ever run for President. He was a very rude, arrogant man of low moral character." This man prefers to not go into details but I believe it will be the first time he has ever voted for a Republican in his life! His experiences have reverbrated throughout his family, an Illinois family accustomed to automatically voting straight Democrat,

Barack Obama is a product of the Chicago Political Machine, who got him elected to public office in the first place and taught him how to play the dirtiest version of the game. The idea that he represents any kind of change other than a change in his pay scale and a change for the worse for America in general is laughable.

Obama has lied about his very strong ties to ACORN and continues to lie about it to this day. Obama has worked with them since the 1990's in one way or another, steered government monies to them, taken campaign funds from them, paid them to get out the vote for him in this election. Barack Obama is a liar on a consistent basis and one of the things he lies about is ACORN. If you don't know, ACORN is the organization that helped push democratic leadership to protect the Fannie/Freddie scam until the entire mortgage/banking system began falling apart.

Barack Obama did begin his political campaign in William Ayer's front room. William Ayers and his wife, Bernadette, are both unrepentant terrorists involved in bombings and murders from their Weatherman days. Ayers may have ghostwritten Obama's first book. Obama has tried to distance himself from Ayers recently but there are many ties there.

Barack Obama is a disciple of Saul Alinsky, a dedicated communist and anti-American who actually dedicated a book to Satan.

Barack Obama got a great deal on a piece of very expensive property while buying it in tandem with Tony Rezko, a crook who is in the news in Illiinois for various felonies. Business as usual in Chicago but sometimes people get caught. Rezko might have a part in bringing down the current Illinois governor.

Khalid al Mansour not only helped get Obama into Harvard, but may have paid a good part of his school bills.

Do I have to remind you that Obama went to a church where the Pastors (plural on purpose) teach hatred, racial politics and are blatantly anti-American? I don't even need to include links on this one, do I? Jeremiah Wright was once characterized by Barack Obama as his spiritual advisor and like family, like an uncle, before it was no longer politically expedient.

Obama was taking hundreds of thousands from Fannie/Freddie/Brothers and etc. and helped his Democratic brothers keep that train running while stifling John McCain's 2005 bill that would have saved us from this crisis. I went over this in great detail in an earlier posting.

Depending on the site, Obama is rated among the top five most liberal Senators and usually number one. Joe Biden is rated at number three on the list. To be the most liberal Democrat is to be a socialist and his programs are certainly socialist in nature.

Like Dick Armey said, Democrats say they love jobs, but they hate employers. Obama's ill-timed comment to "Joe the plumber" about spreading the wealth around was a slip that reveals where he is really coming from. Let me tell you, it didn't work in the Soviet Union and it won't work here.

While Obama may have beaten John Edwards and Hilary Clinton in the primaries, he may have more in common with both Edwards and Hilary (via her husband) than first thought...Vera Baker is being paid and was paid to go away and you have to wonder why? Barack Obama would not be the first Presidential candidate to have a loose cannon, so to speak. But if he is just another Chicago political animal, just another socialist who wants to grow government to run our lives, just a guy who loves terrorists and radicals and crooks, what's a little adultery thrown in?

The big problem at the end of the day is that, if the Barack ticket sweeps the nation, we will have possibly the most liberal Presidential team in the history of this nation with a veto-proof majority in both houses set up perfectly to go forward with their socialist agendas. There will be no limits on abortions whatever, even allowing for the stabbing death of a 95% born infant as long as one bit of his/her body has not yet left the womb. Wealth distribution/class warfare will be the theme of the economic policies. Government will take over medicine and dominate already troubled schools. More controls on our personal lives will be enacted. Small businesses will have trouble making money, large businesses will move overseas or south of the border and it may be that the beginning of a totalitarian form of government will be traced back to the first Obama administration.

Am I an alarmist? Yes! Let me tell you something, I was in the middle of a motel fire once and I awoke to discover that fire was all around me. Smoke obscured my view, but I grabbed the other person in the room and carried her out through the fire and smoke and then began banging on doors to wake people up and get them out! I woke up the manager and made him mad at first for disturbing his peace - until he saw that his business was on fire! He then immediately called the fire department. I saw that place burn to the ground but not one person was seriously hurt in that fire, in part because I was the first one to wake up but in part because I took action and warned everybody of the danger. I am doing the very same thing now.

WAKE UUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPP! Barack Obama is a dangerous man who will do great damage to this country if he is elected. WAKE UUUUUUUUUUUPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!