"Free" child care and "universal" preschool. (Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
Jim: I'll buy that!
Jim: Just where can our "service" workers live without this? We need them close to businesses that employ them!
IBD: A fatter earned income tax credit for "working poor."
Jim: What you do for the least of you - you do for me - or something like that.
IBD: And even a Global Poverty Act that amounts to a Marshall Plan for the Third World, first and foremost Africa. His new New Deal also guarantees a "living wage," with a $10 minimum wage indexed to inflation; and "fair trade" and "fair labor practices," with breaks for "patriot employers" who cow-tow to unions, and sticks for "nonpatriot" companies that don't.
Jim: Just were do you think that employee furnished health care & paid vacations and all of the other "perks" came from! UNIONS, that's where. I enjoyed a far better standard or living during my working career because of what unions fought for their members - and so did you.
IBD: That's just for starters - first-term stuff. Obama doesn't stop with socialized health care.
Jim: A "single-payer" system is the efficient ultimate answer; 30% of medical costs are insurance overhead & profits - far far more than Medicare or Social Security spends.
IBD: He wants to socialize your entire human resources department - from payrolls to pensions. His social-micro engineering even extends to mandating all employers provide seven paid sick days per year to salary and hourly workers alike.
Jim: Too much - This rant is full of "scary" words like "Socialism" but, research on Happiness in Western Europe & particularly Scandinavia disproves the need for lower taxes and less Government involvement -as does our current economic melt-down.
IBD: You can see why Obama was ranked, hands-down, the most liberal member of the Senate by the National Journal. Some, including colleague and presidential challenger John McCain, think he's the most liberal member in Congress.
But could he really be "more left," as McCain recently remarked, than self-described socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (for whom Obama has openly campaigned, even making a special trip to Vermont to rally voters)?Obama's voting record, going back to his days in the Illinois statehouse, says yes. His career path - and those who guided it - leads to the same unsettling conclusion. The seeds of his far-left ideology were planted in his formative years as a teenager in Hawaii - and they were far more radical than any biography or profile in the media has portrayed. A careful reading of Obama's first memoir, "Dreams From My Father," reveals that his childhood mentor up to age 18 - a man he cryptically refers to as "Frank" - was none other than the late communist Frank Marshall Davis,
Jim: Guilt by association !
IBD : who fled Chicago after the FBI and Congress opened investigations into his "subversive,""unAmerican activities."
Jim: McCarthyism!!
IBD : As Obama was preparing to head off to college, he sat at Davis' feet in his Waikiki bungalow for nightly bull sessions. Davis plied his
impressionable guest with liberal doses of whiskey and advice, including: Never trust the white establishment. "They'll train you so good," he said, "you'll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that sh**."
Jim: YES - all those MYTHS
IBD: After college, where he palled around with Marxist professors and took in socialist conferences "for inspiration," Obama followed in Davis' footsteps, becoming a "community organizer" in Chicago.
Jim: Jesus was a Community Organizer - Pontius Pilot was a Governor"
