Socialism-Lite

Socialism and its government dictates toward behavior failed.

"By making the state the arbiter of economic value and social justice, as well as the source of rights, it deprived individuals of their liberty....the right to choose and to innovate."

Enter Barack Obama's "socialism-lite".

"If reckoned as an attitude rather than a set of guidelines for running an economy, socialism might well describe Senator Obama's economics."

"Anyone who speaks glibly of "spreading the wealth around" sees wealth not as resulting chiefly from individual effort, initiative, and risk-taking, but from great social forces beyond any private producer's control."

In this attitude, since society produces all the wealth, society has a claim on all the wealth.

"This notion of wealth certainly warrants the name "socialism," for it gives the abstraction "society" pride of place over flesh-and-blood individuals."

Socialism-lite stifles the free market, wealth production, innovation, and freedom.

Barack Obama's election and his "socialism-lite" may very well move this country more and more toward the failure that is socialism.