Obama the Communist

Michelle Obama, that is.

Although it isn’t a stretch to conclude the same about Barack, considering the few statements of actual policy that he has espoused this campaign season.

In 1850, Frederic Bastiat wrote a pamphlet describing the fallacies of the socialist system of government that was developing in France at that time. Compare this passage from The Law to recent comments by Michelle Obama:

Bastiat:

“The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.”

Now, Michelle:

“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”

Obama’s philosophy of government is not new– it was identified not only by Bastiat but succinctly described in 1875 as

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs…”

The person who popularized that phrase? None other than Karl Marx, the “father of communism.”

I highly recommend that you read The Law by Bastiat. You will be amazed at how accurately he described, in 1850, a system of government that is being espoused by Democrats in America today. You can find the full text here.