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The Ongoing Melodrama of Victims and Oppressors

Charles1154 Wrote: Apr 08, 2010 2:00 PM
America is not being asked to volunteer good-will or charity to anyone. It is being mandated by law. It is being mandated by a government that has refused to respond to the will of the people.

What is being engineered is NOT for the sake of healthcare or charity or helping anyone who is in America legally or not.

Socialism is being engineered.

Centralization of government power is being engineered. Perpetuation of the power of the present administration is being engineered for themselves and those they anoint to succeed them.

There is nothing humanitarian about what is taking place in government health control and in immigration. It's all about grabbing and keeping power by the socialist...

President Obama, in the tradition of progressive Democratic leaders, believes government should ask the more economically fortunate citizens to be responsible for helping the less well off.

But the president seems to fail to acknowledge that there are plenty of actions an individual can take to avoid becoming part of that growing crowd of "less fortunate." Instead, in Obama's world, there exists a simple zero-sum melodrama of victims and oppressors.

If recent poll numbers are correct, many Americans find that life in the real world is a lot more complicated than the near-constant us vs. them rhetoric about...

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