Excellent Chuck, thanks for the well-reasoned and voiced verbal karate punch!
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"Obama’s Roanoke business comments were an assault to free enterprise and entrepreneurialism. They were not a gaffe; they represent at very least his preferred philosophy for a European type of socialism. The Wall Street Journal even confessed that the president is 'subordinating to government the individual enterprise and risk-taking that underlies prosperity.'
The truth is, Obama’s statements in Roanoke were in no way reminiscent of great capitalists and innovators like Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, etc. On the other hand, his words did smack of a few other societal manipulators:
'Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.' – Karl Marx
'Production itself changed from a series of individual into a series of social acts, and the products from individuals to social products. The yard, the cloth, the metals that now came out of the factory were the joint product of many workers through whose hands they had successfully to pass before they were ready. (No one person could say of them: 'I made that; this is my product.') – Fredrick Engels
'All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all.' – Vladimir Lenin
'Comrades, we must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.' – Nikita Khrushchev
'We must affirm anew the discipline of the Party, namely: 1) the individual is subordinate to the organization; 2) the minority is subordinate to the majority; 3) the lower level is subordinate to the higher level; and 4) the entire membership is subordinate to the Central Committee. Whoever violates these articles of discipline disrupts Party unity." – Mao Zedong
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