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SOCIALISM - THE NEW SLAVER
Lincoln vs. Obama
“Property is the fruit of labor. Property is desirable, is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently to build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence…” –Abraham Lincoln[1] Over the past couple of years, Barack Obama’s Far Left handlers have time and again staged him in Springfield, Illinois for the deliverance of their message du jour. As with all Obama ‘events’, each staging is orchestrated to fix a visual image in the viewing public’s mind. The glitz is designed to gloss over innuendo contained in Obama rhetoric so that what’s seen is readily brought to mind…not what’s said. The intent, of course, is for the public to be so taken with what it all ‘looks like’ that the radical message being delivered goes relatively unnoticed. Springfield…the final resting place of Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. What better stage could one find to deliver a message about “leveling the playing field”? After all, wasn’t that what Lincoln stood for? No, it wasn’t. The message Barack Obama continues to deliver is diametrically opposed to the message of Abraham Lincoln, regardless of backdrop. Read again Lincoln’s words above: “Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently to build one for himself…” Ask yourself this question: Is Obama creating jobs so you’re able to ‘work diligently’ to build your own house that Lincoln spoke of? No, he isn’t. In fact, he’s intent upon creating exactly the opposite…a Socialist State of Entitlement, replete with citizens dependent upon Central Government for even the most basic of necessities like shelter. Notice that Lincoln stated that “property is the fruit of labor…” Thus, one can logically conclude that Lincoln believed that without labor, one cannot reasonably expect to enjoy its ‘fruit’, e.g. property in all its various forms. Obama, on the other hand, believes exactly the opposite…that if your neighbor has more than you, you should rob him of the fruit of his labor rather than working to produce your own…seize his wealth, don’t create your own. The two philosophies could not be more different. The very emancipation that Lincoln championed is today threatened by the Obama Socialist Agenda. A ‘master’ is a master regardless of time and space. In Lincoln’s time it was Southern landowners…today it’s Central Government – but the definition of slavery remains the same. Any entity that robs any peoples of meaningful work and its rightful earned reward is a slaver in the truest sense of the word for it forces dependency on handouts. Therein lays the crux of the Socialist agenda – obliteration of self sufficiency and personal reward, the exact principles Lincoln fought and ultimately died for. And, oh, by the way, did you notice Lincoln was white? And a Republican? Wow! What a red-necked, tea-baggin’ racist he was! Who knew? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] Quoted in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, May 1955, p. 7
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