[Rhodes22-list] Ben C., thank you for your reply...

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Ben,

Start from the top.  I did not call you a Marxist.  The ‘he’ was referring
to Obama, if you go back and read the whole paragraph.  Furthermore, I do
not know if Obama is a Marxist.  But he fails to distinguish himself from
them so that a dummy can tell whether he is or is not.

I agree that that association alone does not make him a Marxist.  However,
his stated political philosophy one ago year ago was parallel to Marxist
style thinking, also know as Socialist thinking.  That is, his taxing
proposals intimate a Marxist style or Socialist style thinking. 
Specifically, tax the hell out of those earning a high income and spread the
wealth.  Or were his words, share the wealth?

I have a problem with this concept for several reasons.  First, it takes
property in the form of money from one group and gives it to another group. 
What ever the reason, it is using the huge coercive power of the government
to take property from one group and give it to another.  Now all kinds of
social reasons can be given for doing this.  Bob Skinner is good at
explaining some of them.

However, another reason I recognize it as a problem is that that kind of
transfer of wealth kills or severely harms individual initiative.   I
recognize that it is people, both ordinary and extra ordinary that thru
personal effort, also called initiative, has made great strides in raising
the standard of living or wellbeing of all people.  

My question to you is still to discuss if Obama is using deception or
evasion about his prior economic and political concepts?    

You are one guy who should be able to discuss that issue from all sides. 
Understand to some it is an honesty or integrity question.

Please take your time to do so, and Thank You.

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA
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