See this guy on the left? You may remember him. He was a fanatic, but a fantastic orator. He was a politician, but a killer. He was a man, but he was responsible for the murder of millions of innocent people. He was Hitler, and he was the face of the new socialism movement in Germany during the 1930s and 40s.
Now look to the right. The Swastika has grown to become a despised and fear-inducing symbol around the world. It means death. It means control. It means concentration camps. It represents everything that the United States fights against. I represents the failed system that socialism is. There is no better example of socialism than Nazi Germany. So isn't it just a little disturbing when the President of the United States comes out in public and bashes the American system of government? Could he be - dare I say it? - a Marxist himself?
See for yourself:
"… there is a certain crowd in Washington who, for the last few decades, have said, let’s respond to this economic challenge with the same old tune. “The market will take care of everything,” they tell us. If we just cut more regulations and cut more taxes – especially for the wealthy – our economy will grow stronger. Sure, they say, there will be winners and losers. But if the winners do really well, then jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle down to everybody else. And, they argue, even if prosperity doesn’t trickle down, well, that’s the price of liberty. Now, it’s a simple theory. And we have to admit, it’s one that speaks to our rugged individualism and our healthy skepticism of too much government. That’s in America’s DNA. And that theory fits well on a bumper sticker. But here’s the problem: It doesn’t work. It has never worked. It didn’t work when it was tried in the decade before the Great Depression. It’s not what led to the incredible postwar booms of the ’50s and ’60s. And it didn’t work when we tried it during the last decade. I mean, understand, it’s not as if we haven’t tried this theory." - Obama
In a way, he's right. When the Pilgrims first hightailed it to the New World to escape religious persecution, they set up a commune right on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. These settlers shared everything - nobody was better than the other.
Until one day a revelation hit them.
They realized that only half of the people were doing the work, while the other half primarily did nothing. 50% of the population was carrying 100% of the labor load.
There were no incentives to have a better life. After all, everybody lived in the same way. There was no reason to work for advancement. The colony could barely feed themselves. So, Bradford came up with a monumental idea. He decided that everybody should have their own private property and manage it. People had an incentive to grow their own goods. The crops doubled. They had an incentive to trade with the Indians. Trading posts were established. Capitalism was born.
So yes, America, as it was originally founded in 1620, didn't work. It failed miserably. It was a system of socialism before Karl Marx was even around to dream up the term. It was re-founded in democracy, capitalism and republicanism. So Obama is wrong. Dead wrong. This system works fine.
It's his system of socialsim that is the miserable, miserable failure.
