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Question: Who said the following, Karl Marx or Barack Obama? "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." The answer is… BOTH. Well, sort of. Marx DID say it a little differently. Marx said it this way: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."  Judging from their words they both support redistribution of the wealth.

Shocking? No, at least not to those of us who have been paying attention to the Obama Campaign. What was shocking, well, maybe not SHOCKING, but "TELLING" was the fact that so many people WERE shocked by Mr. Obama's utterance to a plumber named "Joe" a few days ago.

In the words of Karl Marx (above), 'From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.' That, dear reader, is straight out of the Communist Manifesto. Haven't read the Communist Manifesto? You should. It will be a fantastic eye-opener if you are still undecided about whom you will vote for. You'll find it at:  http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html

Here are just a few things the Communist Manifesto contains:

These measures will, of course, be different in different countries. ... Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc."…. (From the Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels 1848

There is an excellent article at The Chistian Science Monitor on this very subject. You'll find it at:  http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/10/14/obamas-tax-plan-and-the-redistribution-of-wealth/

Then, again in 1945 Winston Churchill said this about "socialism" in a broadcast he made during the election campaign broadcast he made just before the General Election that year. Mr. Churchill said this: ". . . a socialist policy is abhorrent to the British ideas of freedom. Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state. It will prescribe for every one where they are to work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say. Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance."

In the book "The Downing Street Years" the conservative Brit, Margaret Thatcher, Former Prime Minister, believed that there was no fairer trial for socialism than in Britain in the mid-20th century, and it has been conclusively proved to be a failure.

Now … considering all this, we, here in America, are seriously considering switching from freedom and capitalism to slavery and socialism??? Even the thought, itself is troubling. The choice between the two candidates for President is so clear that it cannot be confused. And yet, we have Americans who claim to be "undecided". How can that be? The choice is clear: freedom or slavery.

The moment for indecision has long since passed. It is time now to make a commitment to see that America is preserved as the home of the free. There are no second chances or "do overs". This election is for "keeps'. We have to get it right the first time.

J. D. Longstreet

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