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Obama's "Redistribution Of Wealth" Is A Bad Idea.
America has tried socialism before. In Jamestown, one of the first colonies the British made, they developed a common-store system. Everyone pooled their wealth together, and the leaders decide what the people needed. The problem was, people got lazy and stopped working. Soon part of the colony was trying to support the entire group. They also starved to death. And a second thought- who is Barack Obama (or any government official, for that matter,) to tell me what they think I "need"?
 Spartan33  22 Nov 2008 23:14
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Communism fails at all times in practise. Obama is trying to use a more US-friendly/modern version of Communism. And he fails at it.
 
 Prometheus  14 Nov 2009 23:03
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 Do you even know what communism is?
by  artemis
 14 Nov 2009 23:14
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If Obama really believes in this "redistribution of wealth" bullshit then he should sell everything he has and give it to the poor.

In reality, he only wants to redistribute OTHER people's wealth to HIMSELF.
 
 dlmiller82  03 Sep 2009 06:57
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 To use Obama's own words, he is "borrowing from Peter to pay Paul"
by  Prometheus
 14 Nov 2009 23:03
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Amen, Brother!
 
 Feremeir1  23 Nov 2008 00:36
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Call it socialism all you want, it is not socialism. In a socialistic society, all people make the same income and the government owns everything. And what Obama proposes is nothing like the Jamestown colony (which was around and died way before the birth of Marx) it is instead similar to the New Deal of FDR, which worked.
 
 Nando  24 Nov 2008 13:29
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