Mommy, Are We Socialists Yet?

Remember the first round of bail-outs? Originally intended to stabilize and re-ignite lending practices? (That worked really well!) And do you remember the cry heard round the nation, “Socialism! We’re running down the road to socialism!” These words resonated with me, too, but in a very different way. You think we’re heading toward socialism? Are you blind? For 75 years socialism has crept surreptitiously into the minds and lives of those unaware.

Need proof? Let me count the ways. For fiscal 2006 our government doled out:

Foreign Aid – $16.7 billion
Farm Subsidies – $21.4 billion
Community Development (aka “Pork) – $5.8 billion
Regional Development (more Pork) – $2.6 billion
Education – $118.6 billion
Health (other than Medicare) – $252.8 billion
Medicare – $330.0 billion
Social Security – $548.6 billion
Food Assistance – $54.0 billion
Housing Assistance – $38.3 billion

I’ll save you the trouble. That adds up to $1.4 trillion (with a ‘T’). For fiscal 2006. I can hardly wait to see fiscal 2009’s numbers!

Now! For the bottom line. The federal government’s net receipts totaled $2.4 trillion, ergo, 60% of each dollar that reached Washington D.C., was applied to social programs. Sixty Percent! If that percentage figure doesn’t represent Socialism in full bloom, it’s close enough to warrant the label, sports fans.

Further, these programs, plus the incredibly inept spending bill the House is trying to foist on the Senate and our economy, will literally bankrupt the system! The United States is already obligated for unfunded liabilities of about $60 trillion! And the Socialists we know as Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Franks and Dodd are either economically illiterate, or are purposely leading the U.S into a situation which would require bankruptcy in order to reorganize!

Last February 6th, Obama, speaking to House and Senate Socialists, berated the Conservatives seeking changes in the current spending bell. It is not a “stimulus” bill. It is a spending bill. Obama thinks “spending” and “stimulus” are synonyms. They are not!

Money that is allocated to people in the Philippines, is not a stimulus to our economy. Money that is allocated for AIDS relief in Africa is not a stimulus to our economy. Money that is allocated to the ACORN’s of America is not a stimulus to our economy. The list of pork packages in the current spending bill is a disgrace, and represents the goals of the Wicked Witch of the West who Obama assigned the task of writing this obamanation…er…abomination.

Anyway, there’s the picture. Socialism is already here. The question is, can we return the United States to an economic system that encourages individual efforts? Can we return the judicial system to reflect obedience to the Constitution, a judicial system that continues to mandate unfunded obligations unto a taxpayer who has no appeal? I doubt it. Here’s the problem. The U.S voters are already Socialists – most of them, anyway – and their numbers will only increase. You know who they are. It’s out of our control, and I see no escape route.

Do you see any Hope for Change?

Me? I’m thinking New Zealand.