re: #132 webevintage

Any evidence that he is?
You know, an evil socialist.

And on the scale of evil where would you rate socialism?

Ok, to be fair his inroads on the transportation, manufacturing and banking industries have been more fascist than socialist, but from the ‘socialized medicine’ of the health care bill, lack of secret balloting in ‘card check’ levying ‘special taxes’ on financial institutions that are doing well, w/o doing anything about the losers that continue to drive Freddy / Fanny into the ground, cash for clunkers, etc, etc… it’s all about “redistribution of wealth,” the fundamental socialist concept. Included free are the simultaneous effects of penalizing success, and rewarding indolance.

As to ‘how evil’? pretty much. Possibly not as bad as an absolute dictator like Saddam or Kim Jong il, but right up there. I mean, I just can’t see saying ‘well, they slaughtered their own citizens, and executed protesters, but at least they weren’t communists”…
However, as a philosophy, anything that catagorically penalizes success (the more you make, the more we take) and rewards indolence (the less you have, the more you get) is guilty of rewardign bad behavior, and destroying the human spirit, and impeding the climb to greatness.
Granted, it’s not gassing whole towns evil, nor blowing up innocent kids and grandmothers evil, but it’s still evil. So, I guess on a scale to 10, I’d rate it a 6.5