Oct 28, 2008

Obama is following in his father’s footsteps

The Democratic presidential candidate’s father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (pictured) died in a Kenya car crash in 1982 at the age of 46.

Candidate Barack Hussein Obama's economic blueprint sounds like one his communist father tried to impose on Kenya 40 years ago, with massive taxes and relief shrouded as “investments.”

As a Nairobi bureaucrat, Barack Hussein Obama Sr. advised the pro-Western Kenyan government there to “redistribute” income through higher taxes. He also demonized corporations and called for massive government “investment” in social programs.

Writing in a 1965 scholarly paper, Obama's late father slammed the administration of then-President Jomo Kenyatta for moving the Third World country away from socialism toward capitalism

“What is more important is to find means by which we can redistribute our economic gains to the benefit of all,” said the senior Obama, a Harvard-educated economist. “This is the government's obligation.” The “means” he had in mind were confiscatory taxes on a scale that redefines the term “progressive taxation.”

Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. is following in his father’s footsteps.

He learned from his father's mistakes. Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. learned that revealing his real beliefs can jeopardize his quest for the power needed to put his “redistribution” plans into action.

This time it is the United States at peril rather than his father’s country of Kenya.

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